TABLE 3.
Acreage under the Principal Farm Crops in England and Wales in five-year periods from 1871-5 io 1921-5 and in the
year 1925. .
(See Chapters II and 111.)
Period.
[871-1875
[876-1880
1881-1885
1886-1890
1891-1895
1896-1900
1901-1905
1906-1910
1911-1915
1916-1920
1921-1925
1925
Wheat. |
Thousands
of
ACTesS.
3,404
2,959
2,646
2,341
1,907
1,858
1.594
(,679
1,877
2,097
1,746
1.500
Barley.|
Thousands
of
Acres.
2,115
2,243
2,034
L911
1,881
1,769
1.641
1,501
1,435
1,488
1,352
1.318
Oats.
Thousands
of
ACT'eS.
1,664
(717
1,870
1,935
2,116
2,039
2,134
2,104
2,022
2,392
2,039
1.868
Beans.
Thousands
of
ACTes.
528
142
£19
337
266
232
237
285
281
248
240
TGs.
Peas.
Thousands
of
ACES.
337
278
231
225
21%
175
172
166
166
145
152
131
Total
corn
STOPS.
Thousands
of
ACT'es.
3,097
7,684
7,242
5,803
6,434
6,132
5,833
5,786
5,832
6,538
5,725
5.182
Potatoes.
T'urnips|
and
swedes.
Thousands
of
Thousands
of
acres. acres.
382 1,625
354 1,560
388 1,538
t14 1,476
390 1,460
t14 1,313
144 1,160
118 1,121
152 1,046
318 959
506 | 843
193 06
Manoolds.
Thousands
of
acres.
338
349
237
344
349
365 J
106
139
140
390
390
259
Small
fruit.
Thousands
of
acres.
UX
_¥
ea
61
67
71
76
77
66
7
[RK
Hops.
Thousands
of
acres.
64
69
68
61
58
52
49
39
35
20
26
28
Clover
and
rotation
oTasses.
Thousands
of
ACTeS.
3,051
3,076
2,914
3,121
3,044
3,191
3,140
2,801
2,474
2,378
2,515
9 574
Bare
fallow.
Thousands
of
acres.
601
668
711
489
442
356
347
300
327
481
133
163
Total
arable
land.
Thousands
of
acres.
14,766
14,348
13,747
13,243
12.676
12.356
11,914
11,444
(1,131
11,805
11,144
10.682
—
9)
~1
# Not separately distinguished until 1887.
Figures for individual years will be found in the annual issues of the Agricultural Statistics
