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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