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

< The actual variation from year to year in the average yields per acre of wheat, barley and oats though appreciable is not extreme, that is to say, the difference between a good yield and a poor yield on the average of the country is only a question as a rule of 3 or 4 cwt.* If is much wider in the case of some other crops. In the following table are shown the highest and lowest yields so far recorded for all the main crops together with the highest expressed as a percentage of the lowest. HicresT AND LowEST AVERAGE YIELDS PER ACRE OF CERTAIN CROPS. TOD. PE Wheat Barley Oats - Beans Peas - Clover hay Meadow hay Hops Potatoes - - Turnips and swedes Mangolds - Highest vield. Cwt. 19-8 17-3 16-3 18-6 16-2 33-7 29-2 17-1 Tons. 71 15-7 21.0 Year. 1921 1909 1907 1906 1906 1889 [898 1924 1922 1909 1917 Lowest vield. Cwt. 14-2 13-3 11-6 9-6 9-3 16-5 12:0 4-8 Tons. 4-8 7-4 12-8 Year. Percentage highest to lowest. 1893 1893 1922 [917 1922 1893 1893 | S88 Per cent. 139 130 141 194 174 204 243 356 1912 148 1921 | 212 1893 173 The wide variation in the yields of some of these crops naturally affects the ten-year averages considerably. When a very good season may yield double the crop of a poor season, the ten-year average is especially liable to abrupt rises or falls and a much more extended period than ten years would be necessary to gauge the tendency of any movement there may be. An examination of the yields per acre of each of these crops, apart from potatoes and hops, indicates a general resemblance to the corn crops. For practically all farm crops except potatoes the period of maximum yield was approximately the ten year period 1901-10, and especially the latter half of the period, in which it was rare to find any crop yielding in any year less than the average for the previous decade. For this the weather must have been mainly responsible as also for the falling off which occurred shortly before the outbreak of war. Subsequently, yields were probably affected by war conditions owing to the * It has to be remembered that this relatively small variation is the result of averaging the yields in all parts of the country. Individual parishes, for example, in the same year, may vary from 9 to 27 cwt. in the case of wheat, while the same parish which in a good year may be estimated to have an average yield of 20 cwt. may in a bad year only produce 9 cwt. A description of the method of estimating the production of corn crops is given in Chapter T

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