ESTIMATED AVERAGE YIELD PER ACRE OF SMALL FRUIT IN 
ENGLAND AND WALES IN CERTAIN YEARS. 
Description. 
EN 
J SA. 
Strawberries - - - 
Raspberries - : 
Black currants - - 
Red and White currants- 
Yooseberries - : - 
1908. 
Cwt. 
29 
18 
9 
18 
20) 
1913. 
1923. 
1924. 
Cwt. Cwt. © Cwt. 
25 26 25 
16 12 20 
10 16 24 
14 | 28 20 
21 ! 38 37 
1925. 
Cwt. 
24 
20 
16 
© 
36 
These average figures for the country as a whole afford an 
indication of the variation in yield from year to year. 
The total quantities of small fruit produced in the same years 
re given below. 
ESTIMATED PropucTion or Smarr Frurr ON AGRICULTURAL 
Horpines iv ENGLAND AND WALES IN CERTAIN YEARS. 
Production. 
Description. 
1908. | 1013. | 1923. | 1924. | 192s. 
Strawberries - - 
Raspberries - - 
Blaclg currants - 
Red or white currants 
Y00seberries - - 
Mixed 
733 
122 
51 
66 
322 
59 
(Thousands of cwt.) 
da el] 830 
: 170 
275 
75 
600 
an, 
350 
705 
145 
188 
66 
590 
oe 
* In 1923 to 1925 the estimated quantities of the different varieties 
fruit produced from mixed areas have been included with the crops 
TO ture areas. 
. Orchards.—The most difficult crop to estimate is orchard 
uit, and yet a knowledge of probable yield is of real importance 
' the trade. The method at present used was introduced in 
1923, when growers were asked on the schedule to state the 
MWmber of fruit trees of each kind as distinct from the area, 
“Overed. Although there was some complaint about the trouble 
Volved, the number of trees is a definite fact which the grower 
“an ascertain, and on the whole the returns were of value and 
Provided a beasts on which expert estimates of yield could be 
Made. This inquiry was repeated in 1925. Nothing more than 
\PProximate accuracy is claimed for the estimates of production, 
but they nevertheless afford an indication of the production 
Which it does not seem possible to obtain by any other means. 
Che Practicability of obtaining direct statements from rowers 
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