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as a whole had 53 per cent. Outside the eastern division the 
largest areas were in Kent with 940 acres, Norfolk with 508 acres, 
Northampton with 285 acres, and Devon and Cornwall with 
358 and 283 acres respectively. No other county had as much 
as 250 acres under this crop. The yield per acre was about 
13 tons in 1925 with a total production of 140,000 tons. The best 
results were obtained in the south-eastern division, where yields 
were estimated to average over 15 tons per acre. 
Cabbage for fodder.*—The area of cabbage, savoys and kale 
grown for fodder amounted in 1925 to 50,825 acres, the largest 
acreage being found in the coastal counties extending from Norfolk 
to Hampshire, together with Wiltshire, Devon and Derby. 
Each. of these counties had an area of over 2,000 acres of fodder 
cabbage. 
Rape.—Rape is one of the few fodder crops which is not much 
grown in the eastern counties. Of the 66,081 acres grown in 
1925 the largest area was in Devon and Cornwall, which together 
provided 24 per cent. of the total acreage, while the four counties 
Sussex, Hampshire, Wiltshire and Pembroke together had about 
the same area. 
Mustard for fodder—The area of fodder mustard in 1925 
was 15,741 acres. The largest area was in Norfolk with over 2,000 
acres, and Hampshire and Dorset came second and third with 
1,700 and 1,200 acres respectively. Most of the counties in the 
eastern half of the country have appreciable areas of mustard 
for fodder. 
Mustard for seed.— Estimates of the production of mustard 
seed for the commercial manufacture of mustard or for sowing 
have been made annually since 1922, while the acreage under 
this crop has been published in the Ministry’s annual statistics 
each year since 1914. In that year the area in England and 
Wales was 18,731 acres; in 1924 it was 36,181 acres but in 
1925 it was reduced to 22,844 acres. The estimated produc- 
tion of the crop was 7,800 tons in 1922, 12,750 tons in 1923, 
16,000 tons in 1924 and 10,000 tons in 1925, the yield per acre 
in these years being 8 cwt., 81 cwt., 83 cwt., and 9 cwt. 
respectively. 
The growing of mustard for seed is practically confined to 
the eastern counties, the eastern and north-eastern divisions 
together with Northampton and the Soke of Peterborough, 
having no less than 95 per cent. of the total area of 22,844 acres 
under mustard grown for seed in the country in 1925. 
Other farm crops.— There are also a number of crops which are 
grown on too small a scale to be separately specified on the 
Agricultural Schedule, but in the aggregate the total area devoted 
to unspecified farm crops probably does not exceed about 20,000 
acres. This area includes a proportion of the crops grown for 
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* (Cabbage for human consumption is dealt with in the next section.