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the last three years. The' loss in lOli comprised about <S,500 

 acres in England and Wales, and 1,500 acres in Scotland. 



Mangold, on the contrary, in showing an increase of 12,911 

 acres (i5 per cent.) in England and Wales (the quantity grown 

 in Scotland is quite small), tends, in spite of a drop of 66,000 

 acres in 1913, to maintain the increased popularity it has 

 enjoyed since 1900. 



Clover and Rotation Grasses show a fnrther decline in 

 acreage in Great Britain as a whole, but this is entirely due to 

 the loss of 118,000 acres (5 per cent.) in England, there having 

 been, in fact, increases of 3,500 acres in Wales, and nearly 

 8,000 acres in Scotland. In 1914 there were nearly 600,000 

 acres (over 20 per cent.) less under these crops in England 

 than ten years previously. 



Bare Fallow in 1914 accounted for 347,965 aci-es in Great 

 Britain, of which 340,737 acres were in England and Wales, 

 in which countries there was a reduction of over 47,000 acres 

 as compared with the unusuallv large increase of 114,000 acres 

 in 1913. 



Live Stock. 



In 1914 the number of Horses used for agricultural purposes 

 in Great Britain again declined, their numbers being 926,800, 

 or over 18,000 (more than 2 per cent.) less than in 1913. In 

 England and Wales, moreover, the number of unbroken horses 

 also dropped, being over 10,000 less than in the previous year, 

 including a diminution of nearly 4,000 in those under one year 

 old. 



Cattle increased by 129,000 in Great Britain as a whole, but 

 in Scotland there was a decrease of 32,000, the large addition 

 on balance being made up of 128,000 in England and 33,000 

 in Wales, the total head in England and Wales being 5,878,000, 

 which is the largest number ever carried, with the exception of 

 the 5,914,000 returned in 1911, and which indicates that the 

 general tendency of recent years to increase the number of 

 bovine animals appears to be still maintained in spite of the 

 setbacks in 1912 and 1913, in which years the record number 

 of 1911 dropped by nearly 200,000. 



Glancing at the separate categories into which cattle are 

 divided in the returns, it will be observed that in England and 

 Wales the main increases were 200,000 in dairy animals 

 (i.e., cows and heifers in milk) and over 125,000 in cattle 

 under one year old, against which " other cattle two years and 

 above " diminished by 198,000. A good augury for the future 

 was seen in the increase in England of nearly 30,000, or 5 per 

 cent., in the cows and heifers in calf. 



The persistent annual decline in the number of Sheep in 

 Great Britain from the high figure of 27,600,000 in 1909 to the 



