§ Mr. Peter Freemanasked the Minister of Agriculture what is the average produce per acre for any variety of cereals or crops for which the information is available; and what is the amount of carcase meat that can be obtained per acre from cattle, sheep and pigs, respectively.
§ Sir T. DugdaleThe average yields per acre of the main cereals and of potatoes are approximately:
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- Wheat, 20 cwt.
- Barley, 19 cwt.
- Oats, 18 cwt.
- Potatoes, 7 tons (equivalent in food value to about 32 cwt. of grain).
Yields of beef and mutton (dressed carcase weight) reach 2½-3 cwt. per acre from the finest pasture and fall to about ⅛ cwt. per acre from typical mountain grazing. Average grassland yields about 1Û cwt. of meat per acre.
About 20 lb. of pig meat is produced from 1 cwt. of meal (grain, milling offals, meat meal, etc.). If an acre yields 20 cwt. of grain, and this is converted into pig meat, the yield of pig meat per acre works out at about 3½ cwt. If seven tons of potatoes are converted into pig meat the yield would be nearly 5½ cwt.