A Short History of English Agriculture eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 420 pages of information about A Short History of English Agriculture.

A Short History of English Agriculture eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 420 pages of information about A Short History of English Agriculture.

Green crops.
Potatoes 303,964
Turnips and swedes 1,495,885
Mangels 348,289
Carrots 14,445
Cabbage, kohl rabi, and rape 176,218
Vetches and other green crops 420,373
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Total 2,759,174

Flax 7,210
Hops 71,239
Barefallow or uncropped arable 576,235
Clover, sainfoin, and
grasses under rotation 2,737,387
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Total arable 13,454,017

Permanent grass, exclusive
of mountain or heath land 10,858,016
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24,312,033

1907.

Total acreage under
crops and grass 24,585,455

Corn crops.
Wheat 1,537,208
Barley 1,411,163
Oats 1,967,682
Rye 53,837
Beans 296,186
Peas 164,326
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Total 5,430,402

  Potatoes 381,891
  Turnips and swedes 1,058,292
  Mangels 436,193
  Cabbage 65,262
  Kohl rabi 20,572
  Rape 79,913
  Vetches or tares 145,067
  Lucerne 63,379
  Hops 44,938
  Small fruit 73,372
  Clover, sainfoin, and
    grasses under rotation 2,611,722
  Other crops 117,914
  Bare fallow 248,678
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                  Total arable 10,777,595
               Permanent grass 13,807,860
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                               24,585,455

The small fruit was divided into: 
Strawberries 23,623
Raspberries 6,479-1/2
Currants and gooseberries 24,178-3/4
Others 19,090
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73,371-1/4

As arable land has suffered much more than grass from foreign imports, it was inevitable that this country should become more pastoral; in 1877 the arable land of England amounted to 13,454,017 acres, and permanent grass to 10,858,016.  By 1907 this was practically reversed, the permanent grass amounting to 13,807,860 acres and the arable to 10,777,595.  In corn crops the great decrease has been in the acreage of wheat, but barley, beans, and peas have also diminished, while oats have increased.  In green crops there has been a great decrease in turnips and swedes, compensated to some extent by an increase in mangels, and a sad decrease in hops.  The changes in thirty years can be gathered from the tables of the Board of Agriculture given on p. 331.

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