§ MR. WEIR (ROSS and Cromarty)To ask the Secretary of State for India if he will state how the yield of food crops per acre in each province in India for the year 1904 compares with the figures for the years 1880 and 1901.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Morley.) Figures for 1880 are not available, as provincial estimates of the yield per acre of the principal crops were not framed until 1892. The latest volume of the Agricultural Statistics of India gives a comparative table of the estimates for the five years ending respectively with 1897 and 1902. I will cause a copy of the volume to be sent to my honourable friend if he desires it.