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

)- ESTIMATED PROPORTION OF VETCHES, HARVESTED RIPE, CUT FOR HAY AND ¢UT FOR GREEN FODDER OR SILAGE IN 1925. Percentage of Total Area. Division. Eastern - North-Eastern South-Eastern Bast-Midland West-Midland South-Western Northern - - North-Western North Wales South Wales Harvested | Cut for ripe. hay. 36 33 22 32 iO 1% '5 2 3 18 Cut for green fodder or silage. 43 53 63 51 76 87 84 81 79 2 . Lucerne—Of the total area of 54,020 acres under lucerne 0 1925 Essex alone had over 25 per cent., Kent 17 per cent., and Norfolk and Suffolk 10 and 13 per cent, respectively. Thus only 35 per cent. of the acreage lay outside these four counties. Estimates made by Crop Reporters indicate that about 31,500 acres Were cut for hay, and of this area 55 per cent. was in Kent and Essex. Moreover, the average yield is high in Essex, averaging Some 54 cwt. per acre as compared with the average of 421 cwt. for the country as a whole; so that in 1925 Essex supplied no less than 43 per cent. of the total production of 67,000 tons. The area, cut for green fodder or silage was about 22,500 acres. Flax.— Linseed was grown on only 3,695 acres in 1925, and 2,169 acres, or nearly 60 per cent. of this was in the eastern division. Outside the eastern division the only counties with more than 40 acres of linseed were Norfolk with 404 acres, Sussex with 351 acres, Kent with 173 acres and Northampton with 179 acres. Yields per acre are on the whole very uniform among the Principal producing counties, the eastern division averaging 9% cwt. per acre and the other counties slightly below this figure. The average over the whole country was 8% cwt. per acre, giving a total production of 32,300 cwt. of seed. The area of flax grown for fibre is small, though at one time flax-growing promised to be of importance. Thus in 1918 and 1919 there were I 1,000 acres under flax grown for fibre in England nd Wales, the chief areas being in Somerset, Dorset, Yorkshire, Suffo];, Essex and Lincoln. In 1925, the area had shrunk to 695 acres—of which 602 acres or 87 per cent. were in Somerset Nd Yorkshire (East Riding). Koh] Rabi—Only 10,734 acres of kohl rabi were grown in England and Wales in 1925, and of this area Essex provided 2,973 acres or nearly 30 per cent., while the eastern division

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