Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-01-25

IL. hdllcs-J uCkSOn, au uutUolltN Oh
agricultural matters, sends TO The
London Times the following account of
the harvest of 1882 in the British is
lands: The cereal harvest of the year
1882 in the United Kingdom has been
grown over an acreage wheat, D.
0O4, 900; barley, 2,2jj, j,OOOi oats, 2,S33, :
900. These areas, compared with
those of 1881, are about . per cent in
crease wheat, ~ decrease barley, 2.3
decrease oats. The English wheat
area is cultivated very irregularly over
the several counties, Il fact | wish to
show to indicate the relative import
ancc of different districts and in order
to make il the basis for forming an
estimate of an average yield. The
forty counties of England may con
veniently be grouped into four di-
visions, each growing, roughly reckon
ing. fourth Of the total yield.
Group 1-Three counties have proba-
bly, grown % bushels per acre
Lincoln, 100000 acres; York, 100000
acres; Norfolk, 100000 acres;--total,
$780, 900 acres; yielding 2,72O,OOO quart
ers. Group 2-SiX counties | put as
Welding but 2S bushels, through the
low average yield of Deyon-EsseX,
1872, 900 acres; Suffolk, 100000 acres;
Cambs. 1l9,OOO acres; Devon, 10000
acres; Hampshire, $4,000 acres Kent,
10000 acres total, 10000 acres,
yielding 2,j0i,OOO quarters. Group ,
Ten counties grow fourth, and
may be estimated as yielding 30 bushels
per acrC-SusseX, Sc 900 acres; Wits,
900 acres; Gloucester, sc ,OOC acres;
Salop, 10000 acres; Northampton, 7O,-
coo acres; Notts, $4,000 acrcs, War
wick, 10000 acres; Somerset, CO..
600 acres; Hereford, 10000 acres;
Bcrks, $4,000 acres-total, GSS,OOO
acres, yielding 2,jS0,O00 quarters.
(irOup l-Twenty.0ne counties grow
the last fourth-Oxford $4,000 acres;
Worcester, $4,000 acres; Berks;
1000 acres; Hereford, 10000;
Beds, 5000 acres; Stafford
shire, I4,OOO acres; Huntington, 1000
acres, Cornwall, $1,000 acres; Dorset,
Al 900 acres; Leicester, $4,000 acres;
Surrey, g., GOO acres: Northumberland,
2G,OD0 acres; Lancashire. $1,000 acres;
Cheshire, 10000 acres; Derby, 22,OOO
acres, Durham, 10000 acres; Mon
mouth, 10000 acres; Cumberland, lJ,-
OOO acres; Rutland, $4,000 acres; Mid
dlcscx, 5000 acres; Wcstmoreland, l.
600 acrcs-total, 10000 acres, should
Weld 2S bushels per acre yielding, say,
2,4Gi, 900 quarters. Gross English crop
Yields 10. 26S, 600 quarters.
Ireland, 10000 acres Wales, 10000;
| Scotland. $1,000 acres; total, 100000
acres, do not form group, being only
onc-tcnth Of the wheat area, and, cSti-
mating the produce at 2S bushels per
acre, the yield would be |, l4j,OOO quar-
tcrs. Grand total, ll,ll2,OO0 quarters.
But here while crcditing the areas
above as growing an average crop gen
crally, vet the character of the season
has been such over about half million
acres of either poor clay land or soils
unsuitcd for growing wheat, AID from
the effects of the great storm on April
20 in the southern counties, that proba-
bly, sack per acre deficiency must be
allowed on Ihe "rerm2o a2Se 'u.a,s' ln'H,H NIL
rc"ut!ion ol -9o,ooo wy, d""l' ,. 'u'I, n,,t ,,mt
the requirements lot Seu,. may pJ pu'
at '1o'ooo quarters, lt'', ia,S ,"'" ptV ~
dnctlon Tor oreau-lii"hii'S' ''o'' u 'o'
4l2'ooO quarters oho,, Lors ,to
AS regaros narley: n. "Gou. nt,i ,i,,;p, tlC
production Is &rOWn 9nO % ~ tlTn' GIIIG 9ot nGo.
ork' Z2.9VT 00G oriTiN' SnnI 1G5'000, 1g5 0V0,
Llncolh' I9o,VVV' o'''iU5N, Sg "oo. '2I,UVo' H.
Essex l2t'Uoo' cc DGn"n' oon "1V0T' id@ I,H noo
o2'oVo' WIS oo,uoo, 'os"', ro,.in,, 9G
acres which Gs.Ilintc eod n"o rs gt"" To Io
bushels say ?'oVyoT D., T,,hop d"Is'Vno no,, orro @
o.'T' oI tSJ ~ O09 onro, irclndin~ scotland.