Full text : The agricultural output of England and Wales 1925

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TABLE 1—continued.

Commodity.

Pruit, Vegetables, Flowers, d:c.—
Fruit—
Orchard fruit—
Apples, dessert and cooking
 -
cider - -
Pears, dessert and cooking
 - -
»s perry - - -
Cherries - - -
Plums - - - -
Nuts and other kinds -
Small fruit—
Strawberries - - -
Raspberries - - -
Blackeurrants - -
Red or white currants -
Gooseberries - - -
Vegetable crops—
Green peas - - -
+» beans - - -
Cabbage for human consumption
 - -
Brussels sprouts - -
Broccoli and cauliflower
Carrots - -
Turnips - - -
Onions - - - -
Celery - - -
Rhubarb -
Other vegetable crops -
Flowers (grown in the open) -
Nursery stock - - -
Glasshouse produce —
Tomatoes  - - -
Cucumbers - -

Grapes - - -
Other fruit and vegetables
Chrysanthemums - -
Roses - - - -
Carnations - - -
Other flowers (including
bedding and decorative
 plants) -
Honey  - -
Toran IFruir, VEGETABLES,
Frowers, GLASSHOUSE PRO-Duce,
 &e. - .

Estimated
Gross
Production.

Estimated
quantity sold
off farms or
consumed in farm
households.

Thousands of ewt.|

Thousands of cwt

6,520
1.160

a
+

6,520
1,160

32
18
349
S01

82
18
349
S01

705
i45
188
66
590
[housands of tons.
73
34

705
145
188
66
590
Thousands of tons.
73
24

L10
93
162
110
00
17
37
60

£10
93
162
77
100
17
37
60

Chousands of tons, Thousands of tons
47 47
Millions. Millions.
50 50
I'housands of lbs Thousands of Ibs
1,500 1,500

2.200

2.200

Estimated Total
Value of Produce
sold off farms or
consumed in farm
households. §

Thousands of £.

3,750
200

80
10
1,130
1,180
110

1,410
450
660
100
550

1,070
280

2,080
1,020
1,680
280
200
140
370
450
830
400
1.100

2,350

750

130
250
200
250
85

315
| 80

24,630

(GROSS VALUE OF AGRICULTURAL
OurruT - - . - i i 225,330 .
* The estimated production of meat, poultry, milk and dairy produce relates to the
twelve ad June, 1924, to May, 1925 and is valued at the average prices during
that period.
+ Total milk produced excluding that fed to calves or pigs but including that from
which butter, cheese and cream was produced.
i Meat is valued at the average price of second quality animals (the total value of
meat therefore includes the value of hides, offal, &ec.); milk at average contract prices
under National Farmers’ Union scheme, allowance being made for excess quantities
paid for at manufacturing prices and average cost of carriage to buyers’ stations
deducted ; butter at average price of second quality at country markets; cheese ab
average prices ab Cheshire Cheese Fairs; poultry and eggs at averages of first and
second qualities ; wool at average values as given by farmers. Grain is valued at
average prices from September, 1925, to August, 1926; potatoes at f.o.r. prices at
Wisbech, July, 1925, to May, 1926; sugar beet and hops at average prices paid to
growers for the 1925 crops; hay and straw at in-rick prices September, 1925, to
August, 1926; and crops grown for seed at average prices as given by producers. Fruit
and vegetables are valued at average prices at growers’ markets during the period when
ihe one crops were being sold; glasshouse produce at average prices as given by
sroducers.
            
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