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

Collection:: Economics Books

29 2,500 acres of land under cabbage, and Middlesex 1,370 acres at the date of the annual returns. The total production of cabbage was estimated to be 410,000 tons, with an estimated vield of 112 tons per acre. Brussels Sprouts.—Bedford had no less than 8,900 acres out of a total of 21,300 acres of brussels sprouts, and Worcester had 2,700 acres. The remaining 45 per cent. of the area is dis- tributed throughout the country, with the largest proportion in bhe eastern and south-eastern counties. The yield is put at about 4} tons per acre, giving a total production of 93,000 tons. Cauliflower and Broccoli.—Nearly 30 per cent. of the total acreage of cauliflower and broccoli on the land on 4th June is found in the home counties, chiefly in Kent, while a group of counties comprising Lancashire, Yorkshire (West Riding), Cheshire, Derby, Stafford and Nottingham, supplying the Northern industrial districts, have about 22 per cent. After Kent, however, the county with the greatest acreage is Corn- wall, and the crop is of particular importance in the latter county as supplies from Cornwall come on the market when Other supplies are small. Comparatively little cauliflower is grown on the vegetable farms of the eastern counties. The area cluded in the annual returns was 11,700 acres, but the area from which a crop was actually taken appears to have been over 18,000 acres, owing to the clearing of some of the crop before the date of the returns. The total production during the year og estimated at 162,000 tons, the yield per acre being about Ons. Celery —Most of the celery produced in the country is grown I the counties round the Wash. Lincoln (Holland and Lindsey), Norfolk, Cambridge, Isle of Ely and Huntingdon together pro- vided no less than 2,890 acres, or nearly 60 per cent. of the total of 4,800 acres in 1925, while the adjacent groups, Comprising Lancashire, Yorkshire (East and West Ridings), Cheshire, Derby and Nottingham, had 1,360 acres. Only 540 acres of celery were 8rown in the remaining 36 counties of England and the 13 counties of Wales. Over the whole country the total yield in 1925 wags estimated to be about 37,000 tons, with an average yield per acre of rather less than 8 tons. Rhubarb. —Yorkshire (West Riding) had 2,633 acres of the botal area of 6,246 acres of rhubarb in the country in 1925, and this county, Lancashire and Cheshire together had 56 per cent. of the total acreage, while the four home counties, Kent, Essex, Middlesex and Surrey together had 1,183 acres, or 19 per cent. The estimated yield per acre in 1925 was 92 tons, the total Production being over 60,000 tons.

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