Agricultural History Review, Volume 40 Part 1 (1992), pp. 38–51

This article is based on the late J R Bellerby's United Kingdom agricultural output series. It does not use his published series, but rather it employs his unpublished manuscript originals. The published series was presented in undifferentiated terms whereas the manuscripts present a full product differentiation, as well as individual price series for those products. The article proceeds to use this material in three ways. It establishes the output estimates as a credible source by comparison with other estimates; it constructs a composite agricultural price index using that series; and finally the index is used to illustrate different ways to understand the transformation of UK agriculture in the late Victorian and Edwardian period. 

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