TABLE 1.

Output of Agricultural Produce from Holdings in England and Wales in 1925.

(An explanation of the basis on which this table is calculated is given in Chapter VI of the Report.)

* The estimated production of meat, poultry, milk and dairy produce relates to the twelve months June, 1924, to May, 1925 and is valued at the average prices during that period.

Total milk produced excluding that fed to calves or pigs but including that from which butter, cheese and cream was produced.

Meat is valued at the average price of second quality animals (the total value of meat therefore includes the value of hides, offal, &c.); milk at average contract prices under National Farmers' Union scheme, allowance being made for excess quantities paid for at manufacturing prices and average cost of carriage to buyers' stations deducted; butter at average price of second quality at country markets; cheese at average prices at Cheshire Cheese Fairs; poultry and eggs at averages of first and second qualities; wool at average values as given by farmers. Grain is valued at average prices from September, 1925, to August, 1926; potatoes at f.o.r. prices at Wisbech, July, 1925, to May, 1926; sugar beet and hops at average prices paid to growers for the 1925 crops; hay and straw at in-rick prices September, 1925, to August, 1926; and crops grown for seed at average prices as given by producers. Fruit and vegetables are valued at average prices at growers' markets during the period when the 1925 crops were being sold; glasshouse produce at average prices as given by producers.

TABLE 2.

* Land under the plough in the year of the return.

† Prior to 1921 rough grazings were described as mountain and heath land used for grazing.

The area of common land was not separately distinguished prior to 1921. A special examination of the returns for 1920 showed that

only 533,000 acres of the common land had been included in the returns of that year.

TABLE 3.

TABLE 4.

Average Annual Production of the Principal Farm Crops in England and Wales in ten-year periods from 1886-1895 to

1916-1925 and in the year 1925.

(See Chapter III.)

Figures for individual years will be found in the annual issues of the Agricultural Statistics.