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.

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Title:: Chapter III. The production of crops

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23 and highest in the comparatively unimportant south-western counties, where it reaches over 164 cwt. Of the total production of 159,000 tons in 1925 the eastern and north-eastern divisions together contributed 109,000 tons or 69 per cent. and the east midlands 22,000 tons or 14 per cent. The four divisions (eastern, north-eastern, south-eastern and east midlands) in which appreciable areas of peas are grown are remarkably uniform in average yield, all recording an average of between 13 and 14 cwt. per acre during the period 1915 to 1924, although of these the division with the largest acreage, the castern, has the lowest yield, 13:3 cwt. per acre. The total production in 1925 amounted to 64,000 tons, of which 47,300 tons or 74 per cent. were obtained in the eastern and north-eastern divisions. The production of beans and peas given above excludes, how- ever, the yield from those areas where the crop is picked or cut green and is thus by no means representative of the total produc- tion of the country. The total area of beans in 1925 was 191,000 Acres and of peas 131,000 acres, and about 6 per cent. of the acreage of beans and no less than 33 per cent. of that of peas, were returned as for picking or cutting green in 1925, the great bulk being for Picking green. These are dealt with in Section (f) of this Chapter With other vegetable crops grown for human consumption. b) Potatoes. Lincoln (Holland) and the Isle of Ely are pre-eminent for Potato growing having in relation to total arable area 28 per tent. and 20 per cent. respectively under potatoes, while Lancashire and Cheshire come next with 18% and 12 per cent. respectively. No other county exceeds 12 per cent., but Bedford, Huntingdon, Lincoln (Lindsey and Kesteven), Soke of Peterborough, Yorkshire (West Riding) and Stafford have from 6 to 9 per cent., and the two groups of counties comprising all those to which reference has been made may be regarded as the chief producing areas of the nation’s potato supply. Outside bhese arcas, Durham (8 per cent. of the arable area) grows Potatoes for the industrial north, and Middlesex (10 per cent.) and Kent and Surrey (6 per cent.) for the London area. Elsewhere the proportion of potatoes to total arable area ranges from 1 per “ent. to 5 per cent., such districts producing almost entirely for local consumption. There is, however, an important movement of carly potatoes from Cornwall, these potatoes being on the Market before any are available from other parts of the country. Map VIII shows the area of potatoes per 100 acres of arable land each county. ~The smallest acreage of potatoes recorded was in 1878, the crease in the area under potatoes between that year and 1925 ~ * See alsn Report on the Marketing of Potatoes in England and Wales. ficonomic Series No. 9. 1926.

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