11 Metaphors for yield

It was remarkably successful, however, until now the area under tea includes more than half a million acres, the number of persons employed in the industry exceeds 750,000, the capital invested in plantations is more than $100,000,000 and the approximate average yield is about 200,000,000 pounds.

"] [Footnote 48: As we may assume that the yields of wine of which Fundanius boasts were the largest of which Varro had information in the Italy of his time, it is interesting to compare them with the largest yields of the most productive wine country of France today.

Carelessly she had sowed the seeds of transgression whose fearful yield was a harvest of bitter misery.

In 1860 the daily yield of all the wells in existence was not 200 barrels.

The revolution which began a decade ago in America has not spread to Bengal, where the average yield of grain per acre is only 10 bushels as compared with 30 in Europe.

The average yield for the ten years was probably about six thousand dollars.

There is no attempt at arboriculturefigs or vines or olivesbut it is such superb corn-land that the average yield is two-hundredfold, and three-hundredfold in the best years.

Harte Essays on Husbandry, 91, says that the average yield in England in the middle of the eighteenth century was seven for one, though he records the case of an award by the Dublin Society in 1763 to an Irish gentleman who raised 50 bushels of wheat from a single peck of seed!

In some soils of the latter description, it is said that for a chupa (seven cubic inches) planted, the yield has been a caban.

It may be noted that the yields of the best modern wines, like Burgundy, are less than half of this, and it is probable that the same was true of the vinum Setinum of Augustus, if not of the Horatian Massic.]

The peach and the grape flourish in the southern part of the State, already, with very little care; in St. Clair County, the culture of the latter has been carried on by the Germans for many years, and the average yield of Catawba wine has been two hundred gallons per acre.

11 Metaphors for  yield