| ENGLAND AND WALES. | |||
| Produce per Acre. | Total Produce. | ||
| Wheat | 3,800,000 | 3¼ quarters. | 12,350,000 |
| Barley and rye. | 900,000 | 4 quarters. | 3,600,000 |
| Oats and beans. | 3,000,000 | 4½ quarters. | 13,500,000 |
| SCOTLAND. | |||
| Wheat | 220,000 | 3 | 660,000 |
| Barley | 280,000 | 3½ | 980,000 |
| Oats | 1,275,000 | 4½ | 5,737,500 |
In Scotland, ten years ago, 150,000 acres were reckoned to be under cultivation with wheat, 300,000 with barley, and 1,300,000 with oats, which is the great crop and chief food of the people.
Mr. Braithwaite Poole, in his "Statistics of British Commerce," 1852, states—"The annual average production of all sorts of corn in the United Kingdom has been estimated by competent parties at rather more than 60,000,000 quarters, and £80,000,000 in value; but in the absence of general official returns, we cannot vouch for its accuracy, although, from various comparisons, there are reasonable grounds for assuming this calculation to be as nearly correct as possible. Some persons in the corn trade imagine the aggregate production to approach almost 80,000,000 quarters; but I cannot find any data extant to warrant such an extended assumption."
The estimated produce of wheat, in quarters, and acreage, he states as follows:—
| Quarters. | Acreage. | |
| England | 15,200,000 | 3,800,000 |
| Ireland | 1,800,000 | 600,000 |
| Scotland | 1,225,000 | 350,000 |
| Total | 15,225,000 | 4,750,000 |
The average price of wheat per quarter in the last thirteen years, in England and Wales, has been as follows:—
| s. | d. | |
| 1840 | 66 | 4 |
| 1841 | 64 | 4 |
| 1842 | 57 | 3 |
| 1843 | 50 | 1 |
| 1844 | 51 | 3 |
| 1845 | 50 | 10 |
| 1846 | 54 | 8 |
| 1847 | 69 | 9 |
| 1848 | 50 | 6 |
| 1849 | 44 | 3 |
| 1850 | 40 | 4 |
| 1851 | 38 | 7 |
| 1852 | 41 | 0 |
The best wheat, as well as the greatest quantity, is raised in the midland counties. From two and a half to three Winchester bushels per acre are required for seed, and the average produce varies from twenty-two to thirty-two bushels per acre.
THE CONTINENT.
The quantity of wheat raised in France in 1835 was 71,697,484 hectolitres, of which eleven millions was required for seed. The average produce per hectare was stated at thirteen and a half hectolitres.