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JSFORFOLK AgPJCULTUEAL STATISTICS, 1854. 

 Total number of Acres in the County .. .. 1,281,273 



Number of Acres under Tillage. Acres. > 



Wheat 202,071 



Barley 173,831 



Oats 35,203 



Eye 5,807 



Beans and Peas 20,767 



Vetches 3,252 



Turnips lGl,lSr. 



Mangokl 16,274 



Carrots 757 



Potatoes 1,958 



Flax 217 



Other crops, such as Cabbages, &c 8,0(4 



Bare Fallow 10,202 



Clover, Lucern, and other artificial Grasses .. 171,891 



Permanent Pasture 192,745 



Total 1,005,135 



Live StccJi. Xumbor. 



Horses 56,350 



Cattle 99,928 



Sheep 841,591 



Pigs 99,773 



Sir John Walsliam, being " supplied with a very considerable 

 number of estimates of produce, upon which he was justified in 

 placing full reliance, from every part of Norfolk," published the 

 following as the average produce of cereals per acre and the pro- 

 duce of the whole county : — 



Produce per Acre. 



Bush. Pks. Produce of the Counfy. 



Wheat .. .. 30 1 .. .. 6,139,872 bushels. 



Barley 38 2 .. .. 6,692,493 „ 



Oats 46 .. .. 1,619,236 „ 



These are creditable averages for a county the greater part of 

 which has a naturally barren soil. A yield of 30 bushels per 

 acre over an extent of more than 200,000 acres — including thin 

 chalks, hungry gravels, and blowing sands — is a respectable 

 crop, and shows what good farming has done for this county. 

 There is but a small portion of Norfolk that can be considered the 

 natural soil for wheat ; and it is therefore the more creditable that 

 the farmers have produced such an increase of the staff of life. It 

 is different with barley, for in favourable seasons it readily grows 

 large crops of that grain, of superior quality. Oats do not 

 appear to suit the soil or climate very well ; tlie yield is insig- 



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