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AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS OF IRELAND. 
Mr. Donnelly, the Irish Registrar General, has made his usual annual report, 
from which we learn that the total acreage under all crops in 1868 was 5,547,335 
acres ; ditto, 1867, was 5,459,702 acres, showing an increase in the extent under 
ycrops in 1868 of 87,633 acres, which is thus accounted for: Compared with 
1867 wheat increased by 25,757 acres, oats by 39,408, barley by 15,199, and 
bere and rye by 304 acres; beans and peas decreased by 3,582 acres ; potatoes 
increased by 33,072 acres, mangel and beetroot by 270, cabbage by 8,753, and 
carrots, parsnips, and other green crops by 1,102 acres; meadow and clover 
increased by 33,462 acres. The crops which decreased in area in 1868 were 
turnips, by 15,662 acres; vetches and rape, by 3,638; and flax, by 46,811 
acres ; the net increase in the acreage under crops in 1868 being 87,633 acres. 
The total estimated value of horses, cattle, sheep, and pigs this year was 
£34,098,742, being a decrease of £1,058,477, compared with 1867. 
SALES OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE IN ENGLAND. 
At the recent Killhow short-horn sale 66 head brought an aggregate of 
£4,445 14s., or an average of £67 7s. 9d. Polly Gwynne, 15 years old, brought 
28gs; Moss Rose, 10 years old, was started at 100gs., and sold at 400gs. This 
cow has now been sold four times at 260gs. as a calf, and then successively at 
245gs., 230gs., and now at 400gs. 'Turk’s Darling brought 75gs.; Duchess 
Gwynne 180gs.; Princess 2d 300gs.; Princess 3d 330gs., (bought for 71gs. last 
year ;) Oxford Lily 85gs.; Countess Gwynne 240gs._ The average for 56 cows 
was £67 16s. 9d. Of the bulls, Royal Cambridge, three years old, brought 
240gs.; Royal Cumberland, seven months old, 160gs.; Fop, 65gs. The ten 
bulls averaged £64 13s. 7d. 
At the Scaleby sale 71 animals averaged £30 each. Of the cows, Elvira 
brought the highest price, 48gs. The 14 bulls averaged just 30gs.; the 14th 
Duke of Oxford bringing 71gs., Duke de Morny 55gs., and Duke of Edinburgh 
40gs. 
‘At the Beaumont sale 29 animals were sold; the 16 cows and heifers averag- 
ing £36 16s. 4d.; Royal Charmer 3d, seven months old, bringing 115gs., and 
Duchess of Lancaster 110gs. The bulls ranged from 8gs. to 50gs.; Golden 
Duke selling at thehighest figures; Snow Ball, a calf, 41gs.; Sir William Gwynne 
46gs., and Fawsley Baronet 38gs. 
‘At Lillingstone Dayrell, Buckingham, 45 head of Mr. Roberts’ herd of short- 
horns brought an average of £28 12s for 33 cows, and £30 17s. for 12 bulls. 
From the Grendon herd 36 cows averaged £22 12s. 8d, and J7 bulls £34 
1s. 3d. The highest figure per cow was 34gs., and per bull 80gs. 
At Gordon Castle Farm 14 bull calves sold at an average of £22 1s., and 
eight cows and heifers at £21 15s. 6d. 
SALES OF SHEEP IN ENGLAND. 
At the ram sales at the Worcester fair, 15 Shropshire Down rams sold at 
from £6 6s. to £23 2s. Anotherlotof 7 pure-bred Shropshire rams brought from 
£5 15s. 6d to 9gs. And of a lot of 8 Shropshire shearling rams the highest 
price realized was 17gs.; lowest, 84¢s.; the average being a little over £13. 
Twelve shearling Leicester rams brought from £2 12s. 6d. to £3; 20 Leceister 
rams averaged £6 16s. 6d., and two other lots ranged from 33s. to 35s. Shear- 
