The agricultural output of England and Wales 1925

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Identifikator:: 1757028552

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-135495

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: The agricultural output of England and Wales 1925

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stat. Off.

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: XV, 152 Seiten; graph. Darst., Kt.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter III. The production of crops

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ot) 9] AVERAGE ANNUAL PropucrioN oF CorN CROPS IN ENGLANI AND Wares IN CERTAIN PERIODS. (Thousands of tons.) Lo Period. Wheat. Barley. | Oats. Mixed Corn. Beans. | Peas. 1886-1890 1891-1960 1901-1910 1911-1920 1921-1925 1925 1,902 1,553 1,429 1,675 1,575 1,360 1,482 1,434 1.244 1088 995 1.010 1,334 1,441 1,552 1,471 1.383 1.379 (a) 251 157 (a) 175 133 (a) 210 119 (a) 199 86 gn 181 68 159 64 (2) Included under wheat, barley and oats. While the cause of the above changes is to be found chiefly in the change in the areas under the various crops, the extent of the changes is affected in some degree by the alterations in average yield to which attention has already been drawn. For example, the increase in average yield per acre between 1891-1900 and 1901-10 was not sufficient to prevent a reduction in the total production of corn, but it restricted the decline in the average wheat production to 124,000 tons, or about 8 per cent., although the area declined by 246,000 acres or 13 per cent. The total yield of oats in the same period showed an increase of 8 per cent. although the acreage under oats in the country had increased by only 2 per cent. The period from 1911 to 1920 is of course exceptional in that the corn area was increased substantially during the war. But total yields of corn crops since 1921, averaging in the aggregate 4,290,000 tons per annum (excluding rye), have been nearly 6 per cent. below the average for the 10 years up to 1910 when the total yield was about 4,550,000 tons, while the average acreage under these crops has been reduced by less than 3 per cent. During the past five years, however, there have been very substantial changes in the acreage under the various crops and the total corn production in 1925 amounted to only 4,066,000 tons, or about 11 per cent. below the average production of 1901-10, Wheat. —The extent of wheat growing as compared with that of other crops on arable land varies very greatly in different parts of the country. In Map V are shown the proportions of wheat to total arable area in the different counties in 1925, Huntingdon and the Isle of Ely, each with over 28 per cent. of their arable area under wheat, are the counties in which wheat growing is relatively most extensive and, radiating from this centre, the proportion of wheat becomes gradually smaller until in the extreme north-west and south-west the proportion is less than 5 per cent. The proportion of the arable area now occupied by this erop over the whole of England and Wales is 14 per cent. The

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