Agricultural Statistics. 101 



Lambert v. Rowe (8H L.J.K.B., 274 : IDl-l, 1 K.B., 38) was 

 a market case. The appellant, a farmer at his own house, 

 which was in Ilfracombe, agreed to sell to a butcher in Ilfra- 

 combe two pigs at lO*'. &d. per score, and they were to be at 

 the appellant's risk till delivei-ed. He subsequently killed the 

 pigs and delivered the cai'casses to the butcher at his shop. 

 The shop where they were weighed and the price ascertained 

 was within the prescribed limits of the market town, but outside 

 the market. The question was whether the farmer had 

 infringed Section 13 of the Markets and Fairs Clauses Act, 

 1847 (10 and 1 1 Vict., c. 14), which forbids under penalty any 

 person other than a licensed hawker selling within the pre- 

 scribed limits of the market town, except in his own dwelling 

 place or shop, any article in respect of which tolls are authorised 

 to be taken in the market. Pigs were tollable articles in the 

 market, but it was held that the appellant was not liable to a 

 penalty because the agreement to sell amounted to a sale at his 

 own dwelling house, and the sale was for the purposes of the 

 Act there, and not at the butcher's shop, although as a question 

 of strict law the sale was not completed and the property did 

 not pass until the pigs were killed and the weights ascertained. 

 A sale within the meaning of the Act was held to be what 

 would be popularly so called, and not to depend upon niceties 

 of the law relating to the sale of goods. 



The only other case which need be noticed is Pettey v. 

 Parsons (84 L.J., Ch., 81 ; 1914 2 Ch., 653), in which it was 

 held that the erection of a gate on a private right of way by 

 the owner of the soil was not an obstruction of the right of 

 the defendant to use the way provided that it was never locked, 

 and kept open during business hours. 



Aubrey J. Spencer. 



l."> Old Square, 



Lincoln's Inn, W.C. 



AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS, 1914. 



[Note.— On page 426, Vol. 74 (191.3) of the Society's Journal, the yield per 

 acre of hay. and the average yield for 10 years, appear to be given in 

 tons, whereas the figures are himdredweightK, 



The Society is again indebted to the Board of Agriculture and 

 Fisheries for their kindness in supplying, for inclusion in the -lournal, 

 the usual detailed and comparative tables of the latest agricultural 

 statistics. For fuller information than can be given in the space 

 available here, the Department's own admirable series of Reports on 

 Agricultural Statistics should, of course, be consulted. — Eb.] 



Acreage. 

 In Table I. are given particulars of the acreage under crops, 

 and the numbers of live stock. It will be noticed that the 



