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

2 In the absence of current information as to the area unde: fruits other than those set out above, no estimate can be made of the production of apricots, loganberries and cultivated black: berries, but the value of these is probably of little account in comparison with the total. No estimate has been made in recent years of the production of nuts. Fruit production in the past three years has on the average been greater than in either 1908 or 1913, but both these latter years were described as considerably below average. Unlike other kinds, the cider apple crop appears to have fallen ofl substantially. Variation in the Area of Orchard and Small Fruit.—Neither the total area of orchards nor that of small fruit has changec very greatly during the past twenty years in this country, thougl a decrease is shown in both cases. AREA OF ORCHARD AND SMALL FRUIT IN CERTAIN Y EARS Orchards Small fruit : Strawberries Raspberries Currants and gooseberries Other and mixed Total small fruit - 1908. Acres. 248.007 25,397 6,666 25,014 19.873 76.950 19183. 7 1925. Acres. 243.610 Acres. 238,081 21,672 7,044 26,846 21,295 27,668 6,955 29,854 3.875 76.857 | 68.352 The slow reduction in the area of orchards and small fruit in the last 17 years shown in the above table, however, is the result of an appreciable change which has occurred in the distri- bution over the country as a whole. The areas under orchards and small fruit respectively in different districts in certain years are shown in the table on the next page. Clearly the eastern counties are steadily displacing the westerr as the chief orchard areas of the country. In 1891 the tw¢ westerly groups shown above totalled 115,000 acres of orchards or 55 per cent. of the whole orchards of the country, while the two easterly groups aggregated only 32,000 acres, or 15 per cent Up to 1908 there was a general increase, but greatest in the eastern groups, which in that year possessed 22 per cent. of the orchard acreage as compared with the western groups 50 per cent. But some of the orchards of the west country have beer grubbed up, and some have ceased to hear and are no longel returned as orchards, with the result that the two western group* now have only 39 per cent. of the country's orchard acreage while the eastern groups have nearly the same proportion. Among the minor counties also the same tendency is evident : westert

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