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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Information as to the production of the different crops is given in Chapter IIL of the Report, but this is difficult to summarise as it is not possible to express the aggregate production of the arable area in any simple manner. Differences in produc- tion as between one year and another are dependent on the area sown or planted and on the average yield, which in turn is dependent on weather conditions. Of these differences the area is the most distinctive and an idea of changes in production can perhaps be obtained by mentioning briefly the area devoted to a few of the different crops. The total area under corn crops in 1925 was 5,182,000 acres as compared with an average of 5,786,000 acres in 1906-10. There was thus a loss of just over 600,000 acres which was spread nearly equally over the three main cereals. Turnips, swedes and mangolds declined in the same period by 400,000 acres, the only important crop which showed an increase being potatoes, the acreage of which rose from an average of 418,000 acres in 1906-10 to 506,000 acres in 1921-25. It is evident, therefore, that apart from the differences in the average yield per acre in the two years 1908 and 1925, there was a material decline in the potential output of the principal farm crops. There is no means of ascertaining or expressing the production of grass- land, the output of hay only representing in most cases part of the production even of the land from which itis taken. As regards the other crops, including vegetables and also glasshouse produce, information has been obtained as to production in 1925, but the details available for 1908 are insufficient to enable a comparison to be made, though it is believed that the area now devoted to these crops is much greater than it formerly was. As regards fruit, the area under orchards and small fruit was rather less in 1925 than in 1908, but in the interval there had been much new planting and the productive capacity of the area under fruit is now much higher than formerly. Against the decrease in the principal farm crops may be placed the increase in dairy farming, the stock of cows in 1925 numbering 2,713,000 as compared with an average of 2,330,000 in 1906-10, an increase from about 85 to 105 per 1,000 acres of crops and grass. The increase in dairy cattle has been con- tinuous for the last 50 years and is a definite and marked characteristic of farming in almost all parts of the country. As a result, milk production is estimated on the results obtained in 1925 to have risen since 1908 by about 150 million gallons from approximately 975 million gallons to 1,120 million gallons, an increase of about 15 per cent., while the amount of milk sold as liquid milk has risen in the same period by about 20 per cent. The number of cattle other than dairy cattle shows little change if the figures for 1925 are compared with those for 1906-10, but there was an increase during the war which has since been lost. Sheep, on the other hand, have shown a very marked reduction, the numbers falling with fluctuations from the high figure of 20,290,000 in 1909 to 13,438,000 in 1922. Since that

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