PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRY
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1913
1817
1918
1919
1920
(pre-war)
1
Cultivated area : Corn crops 1 .
Acres 8,211,641
Acres 9,110,941
Acres 10,950,985
10,105,323
9,379,614
Green crops s .
3,984,734
4,014,857
4,065,164
3,894,590
1 4,236,724
Flax 3 .
59,953
110,221
163,093
115,039
Hops 1 .
35,676
16,946
15,666
16,745
21,002
Small fruit
100 094 5
96,041*
90,939 s
84.837 s
87.439
Bare fallow
396,472
361,925
414,124
657,885
573,962
Clover and ma-
ture grasses .
6,643,146
6,037,483
5,520,796
!
Permanent pas-
•31,452,000
31,774,000
ture
27,309,188
46.740,904
26,583,378
25,045,981
Total
46,336,792
46,266,748
46,326,000
46,073,000
1 Corn crops are wheat, barley or bere, oats, rye, brans, peas.
- Green crops are mainly potatoes, turnips and swedes, mangold, cabbage, kohl-rabi, rape, vetches or tares. * Mainly in Ireland.
■» All in England. Produce 1920, 279,000 cwt. s Including Irish orchards.
1913 (pre-war) '
Number
1,874,264
11,936,600
27,629,206
3,305,771
1917
Number
1,879,547
12,382,236
27,867,244
3,007,916
1918
1919 1920
Live Stock ;
Horses *
Cattle
Sheep
Number
1,916,347
12,311,149
27,062,681
Number Number
1,914,933 1,884,902
12,491,427 11,770,274
25,119.220 23,407,072
Pigs
2,809,215
2.925,093 3113,314
Horses for agriculture, mares kept for breeding, and unbroken horse*. Details of the principal crops are given in the following table for England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland separately : —
Barley
'. oral] -
—
Wheat
or Oats Bert
Beans ' 1
Peas j
Potatoes 1
and
Mangold
Hay
Acreage
— Thousahd Acres.
Knoland and
1
|
|
Wale* :
1913 1
1,702
1,559
1.975 ,
259
12S
442
1,053
419
1917
1,918 .
1,460 '
2,259
211
131
508
389
6,476
1918
2,557 '
1,501
2,780
242
12S
634
909
400 |
5,745
1919
2,1*1
1,510
2,564
274
132
475
M
396
5,672
19-20
1,875
1,637
2,266
246
129
545
988
384
6,069
Scotland :
1913 1
55
198
938
6
0-2
149
432
1-8
1917
61
159
1,041
6
0-4
148
414
2-4
581
1918
79
153
1,244
17
0-4
169
397
2-6
538
1919
30
.174
1,111
7
04
155
427
2 6
54S
1920
54
204
1,032
6
0-4
162
425
IS
577
Ireland :
1913 1
34
173
1,049
1-3
02
582
tft
"
2,482
1917
124
177
1,464
1-4
0-3
709
293
93
2,533
191S
157
1S5
1,580
1-S
0-4
702
294
98
2.470
1919
70
186
1,442
1-4
0-3
589
273
7".
2,o20
1920
50
207
1,332
1-4
0-3
584
■- 1 77
77
V. Kingdom :
19131
1,790
1,930
3,962
266
128
1,173
' 1.75S
500
9.S24
1917
2,103
1,796
4,764
218
132
1,365
1.679
484
9,590
191S
2,793
1,839
1 5,604
251
12S
1,505
i 1,601
500
S.753
1919
2.371
5.117
281
132
1,219
1.683
473
8,734
itao
1,979
2,018
4.630
253
130
1,291
i;«rao
4'
9.164
Pre-Wai
■ year.