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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14 » as a whole had 53 per cent. Outside the eastern division the largest areas were in Kent with 940 acres, Norfolk with 508 acres, Northampton with 285 acres, and Devon and Cornwall with 358 and 283 acres respectively. No other county had as much as 250 acres under this crop. The yield per acre was about 13 tons in 1925 with a total production of 140,000 tons. The best results were obtained in the south-eastern division, where yields were estimated to average over 15 tons per acre. Cabbage for fodder.*—The area of cabbage, savoys and kale grown for fodder amounted in 1925 to 50,825 acres, the largest acreage being found in the coastal counties extending from Norfolk to Hampshire, together with Wiltshire, Devon and Derby. Each. of these counties had an area of over 2,000 acres of fodder cabbage. Rape.—Rape is one of the few fodder crops which is not much grown in the eastern counties. Of the 66,081 acres grown in 1925 the largest area was in Devon and Cornwall, which together provided 24 per cent. of the total acreage, while the four counties Sussex, Hampshire, Wiltshire and Pembroke together had about the same area. Mustard for fodder—The area of fodder mustard in 1925 was 15,741 acres. The largest area was in Norfolk with over 2,000 acres, and Hampshire and Dorset came second and third with 1,700 and 1,200 acres respectively. Most of the counties in the eastern half of the country have appreciable areas of mustard for fodder. Mustard for seed.— Estimates of the production of mustard seed for the commercial manufacture of mustard or for sowing have been made annually since 1922, while the acreage under this crop has been published in the Ministry’s annual statistics each year since 1914. In that year the area in England and Wales was 18,731 acres; in 1924 it was 36,181 acres but in 1925 it was reduced to 22,844 acres. The estimated produc- tion of the crop was 7,800 tons in 1922, 12,750 tons in 1923, 16,000 tons in 1924 and 10,000 tons in 1925, the yield per acre in these years being 8 cwt., 81 cwt., 83 cwt., and 9 cwt. respectively. The growing of mustard for seed is practically confined to the eastern counties, the eastern and north-eastern divisions together with Northampton and the Soke of Peterborough, having no less than 95 per cent. of the total area of 22,844 acres under mustard grown for seed in the country in 1925. Other farm crops.— There are also a number of crops which are grown on too small a scale to be separately specified on the Agricultural Schedule, but in the aggregate the total area devoted to unspecified farm crops probably does not exceed about 20,000 acres. This area includes a proportion of the crops grown for eae Se —————— ee eee —————————ee — ree * (Cabbage for human consumption is dealt with in the next section.

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