The Farm Produce of Great Britain in 1887.

Evening Star, Issue 7496, 14 April 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

The Farm Produce of Great Britain in 1887.

The agricultural produce statistics of Great Britain for 1887 show an area under wheat of 2,384,505 acres, which produced 76,250,000 bushels, being an average yield of 32 bushels to the acre, the best crop on record, with the exception of that of the year 1868. The grain was aUo exceptionally heavy, lots weighing 661b per bushel, and some 681b. 2,247,583 acreß were sown with barley, which yielded 78,309,607 bushels, an average of slightly over 31 bushels per acre. Of oats, 4,403,044 acres were sown, the crop being 150,789,416 bushels, averaging 34£ bushels per acre; of beans, 377,069 acres were sown, producing 3,473,007 bushels, with an average of 22£ bushels per acre; of peas, 230,222 acres were sown, yie1ding5,623,226 bushels; of potatoes, acres were sown, producing 7,134,296 tons, with an average of 5| tons per acre, being an increase of nearly one ton per acr« on the usual crop. Th area in Wales had an average excess per acre of 1$ tons ; Scotland, three-quarters of a ton; and Ireland, over a ton. The area under turnips was 2,272,410 acres, which yielded 22J million tons, an average of over 9| tons per acre; of mangolds, 402,423 acres yielded 5,878,328 tons, or 14J tons per acre ; of hay, 9,031,136 acres yielded 11,492,716 tons, an average of 14, tons per acre; 63,706 acres were sown with hops, which yielded nearly 7icwt per acre. Seventeen and a-lialf million quarters of foreign breadstuffs will still have to be imported before August next, only seven and a-half million of which had been received up to the end o' January. At the low prices ruling the wheat crop averages a return of L 6 an acre, and in some cases the straw will return as much more.