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BRITISH AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS OF 1875.—The area in wheat de- 
elined last year hearly 10 per cent., and the proportion of wheat to all 
cereals declined from 38.5 to 35.4 per cent. The proportion in barley 
increased from 24.3 to 26.5 per cent.; and the increase in oats was from 
27.5 to 28.2 per cent. There was an increase in cereal (corn) crops over 
the previous year of 20,170 acres, or less than a fourth of 1 per cent.; 
and in green crops, of 82,837, or over'2 per cent. 
In the following table the figures for Wales are excluded in the total 
for Great Britain, as also are those for the Isle of Man and the Channel 
Islands. The total corn-crops of Wales, cover 512,178 acres, instead of 
516,001, and 13,085 acres of green crops, instead of 13,956, a small de- 
cline in both. In the former class the order of prominence is oats, bar- 
ley, wheat, pease, beans, rye. 
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CORN CROPS. 
Wheat 1874 | 3,391,440] 45.9} 120,991 86) 188, 711 9.9} 3,630,300} 38.5 
SU eee Ie ; 1875 | 3,128,547] 41.5] 102, 137 7.2} 161, 321 8.4) 3,342,481) 35.4 
1874 | 1,889,722} 25.2} 245,840) 17.5) 212, 93 11.2} 2,287,987). 24.3 
Barley or bere.....} | ig75 | 9 990, 493) 97.8 268834, 18.81 934°509| 1291 21509, 701| 96.5 
Ont: ; 1874 | 1,356,793} 18.1] 1,004,024. 71. 2| 1, 480,186] 77.8] 2.596384, 27.5 
AU ea fe ec § 1875 | 1,421,951 18.9) 1,004,883! 71.2 1,499,371| 78.31 2. 664,009} 28.2 
Rye 1874 36, 424 5 9, 013, .6 8, 979 .5| | 47,228 5 
Gee a BREE ; 1875 43, 544 .6 9, 766 7 9, 556 .5| «54, 903 .6 
Bea. 1874 | 526, 561 7.0| 28, 722 2.0 9, 646 .5| 559, 044 5.9 
HS get er § 1875 | 533, 455 7.1), 27,328) 1.9 9, 970 .5| 564, 181 6.0 
Bho 1874 | 303, 966 4.0 1, 823) il 1, 756 1]. 310,547 3.3 
Eee por scr cing ; 1875 | 310, 623 4.1 1, 976 2) 1, 677 .1| 316,375 3.3 
otal 1874 | 7,505,076} 100.0) 1,410,413, 100.01 1,901,508} 100.0] 9,431, 490| 100.0 
UE Ia ; 1875 | 7,522,543} 100.0) 1,410,929/ 100. 0) 1,916,398] 100. 0] 9, 451,650] 100.0 
GREEN CROPS. 
1874} 314,571) 11.4) 160,480 23.4) 992,421] 65.9) 520,430} 14.5 
Potatoes .-......-. s 1875,| 320,477] 11.2) 157,671) 23.0) +900,277/ 65.7] 522,653) 14.3 
: 1874 | 1,560,857} 56.5} 501,636] 73.2] 333,487] 24.7 2,133,336) 59.6 
Turnipsand swedes § 1875 | 1,569'049| 55.1| 503,323 73.5| 332,783] 24.3) 2149, 698] 58.5 
Mancel 1874 | 314,683} 11. 4| 1, 610 -2| 38,161 2.8] 322, 614 9.0 
BOS f 1875 | 352,198} 12. 4 2, 158 .3| 43,172 3.2] 361, 617 9.8 
Gnaceis 1874 12, 714 .4| 874 Ad 3, 359 .3| 13, 927 4 
ERE aS 1875 13, 591 5 984 2 3, 303 .2| 14, 936 4 
Cabbage, kale, rabi,5| 1874 | 163, 081 5.9) 5, 227| gl 41, 105 3.0] 169, 285 4.7% 
and rape. 1875 | 183, 402 6. 4! 5, 094, §| 41, 896 3.1| 189, 733 5.2 
VERO ee | 
and any other! | 1974 | 393,976| | 14.4) 15, 305) 2.3; 44,999 3.3] 421,678) 11.8 
green crop, ex-$] 4,-- Fe Dead 2 ial cae ai Spats be Bat abin ; 
Sept. clover or{| 2879| 409,756) 14.4) 15,319 2.21 48 655 3.5] 432,470) 11.8 
grass. J | 
Total 1874 | 2,764,182} 100.0) 685,132) 100.0) 1,353,352] 100.0] 3,581,270} 100.0 
Seca. ae oe 3 1875 | 2, 848,473/ 100.0 684,549 109, y 1,370, 086] 100.0) 3,664,107| 100.0 
STEAM-CULTURE.— According to the reports of the Royal Agricultural 
Society of England, 161 pounds of coal will raise into steam 115 gallons 
of water, a power sufficient for the cultivation of one acre. 
of coal will evaporate 7 pounds of water and move 9.3 tons of earth, 
and a ewt. of coal will move 1,000 tons of earth, a power sufficient for 
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