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 II. The agricultural area

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p Average of Years. 1871-75 1881-85 1891-95 1901-05 1906-10 1911-15 1916-20 1921-25 19925 ACREAGE UNDER VARIOUS Crops, 1871-1925. (Thousands of Acres.) Pota- toes. [urnips and Swedes. Man- colds. Bare Hallow. | Miscella- neous Crops. 382 1,625 388 1,538 390 1,460 144 1,160 118 1,121 452 1,046 518 959 506 843 4193 806 338 337 349 406 439 440 390 390 359 601 711 442 347 300 327 481 433 463 673 617 557 584 579 560 541 732 805 Boel Total (excluding Corn). 3,619 3,591 3,198 2,941 2,857 2,825 2,889 2,904 2.926 These figures show that nearly 3 million acres of land which were under corn in the years 1871-75 have now been put to other uses. This represents a loss of 36 per cent. of the area under cereals, while in the case of the non-cereal crops the loss is about 700,000 acres, or less than 20 per cent. of the area under these Crops. The heaviest loss among corn crops has been in the wheat acreage, which in the fifty years from 1871-75 to 1921-25, declined by over 1,650,000 acres, or nearly 50 per cent. Barley declined by three-quarters of a million acres, or 36 per cent., in the Same period, and “ other corn” (rye, beans and peas) by over 300,000 acres, this decrease amounting to about 35 per cent. On the other hand the acreage of oats increased by 375,000 acres, or 23 per cent. The heavy reduction in the wheat acreage compared with other cereals reflects the heavier fall in the price of this crop, while the increase in the acreage under oats may be due to their substitution for other corn crops as the bulk of this crop is utilised for feeding to stock on farms, and its selling value IS not the chief consideration. The outstanding feature in the figures showing acreage of crops other than corn is the substantial fall in the acreage of burnips and swedes, the decline having continued unchecked from 1871. There have been more or less steady additions to the Potato acreage and the area under mangolds has also been extended, while less land is returned as bare fallow. The apparent increase in miscellaneous crops * in the last five years is due to a re-classification of orchards, which are now included under this heading. Taking the total area devoted to corn and other crops (omitting clover and rotation grasses), that is to say, the land actually under the. plough in any one year, the distribution of crops within that area shows some features of interest. On every B 3

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