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THE SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL STA

TISTICS FOR 1855.

The 1 cotsman publishes the Scottish Agricultural Sta-
tistics for the year and crop of 1855, showing the nature
and amount of this year's produce of almost every acre
of Scottish land.
It appears that while, as compared with last year, the
number of acres under cereal crops has slightly increased,
the production has decreased about eleven par cent. But
even that fact (says the Scotsman) is insignificant com-
pared with the confirmatory evidence d&ived from this
year's tables, that those estimates of the agricultural pro-
duce for Scotland, and, at least inferentially, those for
England also, formerly in consmon acceptance, were
pretty nearly double the fact as nciw ascertained. The
following figures show the grain produce of Scotland as
estimated in " M'Culloch's Commercial Dictionary," and
other works of authority, and founded on statements in
many written and oral debates, and the actual quantities
as ascertained in each locality for this and last year,
stated in quarters :
FORMER ESTI3I.ITES, ASCERTAINED.

1854. 1555.
Qrs. go,. Qrx.
Wheat
1,225,000 604,063 632,817
Barley
6
Oats
,500,000 4,231,789 3,758,893
Beans and Peas

9,675,000 5,927,917 5,301,279
To this decrease of 626,638 quarters in the year's pro.
duce has to be a,!ded a considerable, but unascertainable
deficiency in the weight of this
year's crop as compared
with last. Remembering, however, that last year's was
a crop above the average even in acreage, and very
greatly above it in yield per acre, the decrease above
shown cannot be regarded as very great, especially when
we take into account that there is no decrease, but a
very considerable increase, in wheat, each quarter of
which represents, in value, and almost in utility, two
quarters of any of the other grains. If the produce
of England has been affected only in the same propor-
tion, and if it be admitted that the produce of last year
the three kingdoms over was considerably above an
average, the present high prices are difficult to account
for by any decline in the supply. When like re-
turns shall have been procured for England, it will not
improbably be found that we have been estimating the
consumption of the whole country at not greatly lees
than doable the fact, so that we have been much more
than we thought dependent on foreign supplies and
affected by foreign prices.
Turnips and potatoes show a considerable increase in
acreage, and the latter an increase in estimated produce
of nearly 200,000 tuns or about 30 per cent. Consider-
ing the extent to which potatoes come in as a substitute
for flour in times of dearnes.:, the great increase in this
crop might.hao e been expected to bold prices at a lower
level. We deduce from the tables the average produce
per acre of each kind of crop in Scotland in 1855. The
grain crops we state in bushels and pecks per acre
Wheat. Barley. Oats. Bert.. Beans and Peas.
P. B. P. /3 P. B, P. B. P.
213 2 32 3 32 01 32 13/4. 27 2
The rout crops are stated in tons and cwt. :

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Turnips. Potatoes.
T.I. IT. Q.
14 7i 4 19i
The difference between different counties and districts
are hi eoale cases apparently very great—for instance,
the produce of wheat per acre is 34 bushels in Suther-
land, and only 22 in Dumfries ; but, on closer scrutiny,
these differcnees are found to be more apparent than real,
most of the iir)rdinate large yields being explainable by
the fact that they refer to crops, such as wheat in the
Highland counties, cultivated only on choice spots and
as a matter rather of fancy than of business.