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the interior being reported as one hundred and forty and one hundred 
and fifty years old; only a third of the free males over sixteen, and a 
fifth of the free females are able to read. Very few slaves have this 
measure of culture. Of the 1,902,454 individuals between six and fifteen 
years of age (941,782 boys and 960,672 girls) only 155,651, or 16% per 
cent. of the. boys, and 165,098, or 171 per cent., of the girls attend school ; 
that is about 84 per cent. of the children of the appropriate school- age, 
are not furnished with facilities for education. The publication of these 
statistics has produced a profound sensation throughout the empire. 
AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS OF URUGUAY.—A descriptive work by 
General Reyes states the total area of the republic of Uruguay at 
46,189,804 acres, or somewhat less than that of Nebraska. Of this area 
32,499,693 acres, or nearly three-fourths of the whole, are occupied by 
cropping or grazing. The land in crops is but 2.68 per cent. of the area 
actually occupied. Pastoral husbandry, then, has over 31,000,000 acres 
for the support of 6,327,500 cattle, 554,726 horses, 6,437 mules, 13,005,244 
sheep, and 400,000 or 500,000 hogs and goats. The total value of these 
animals is about $30,000,000. The total value of pastoral and cultivated 
lands, $70,800,000. Adding $128,400,000 on for structures of all kinds 
and $6,000,060 for unenumerated property, the total of these items is 
$2,352,000,000. 
BRITISH AGRICULTURAL RETURNS.—The official returns just issued 
show, during 1876, a total acreage in Great Britain under all kinds of 
crops, bare, fallow, and grass, of 31,546,949 acres, an increase of 130,599 
acres, or 0.4 per cent., over 1876. England returns 24,194,091 acres, an 
increase of 81,782; Wales, 2,712,097 acres, an increase of 15,954; Scot- 
land, 4,640,761 acres, an increase of 32,863. The total acreage under 
cereals was 9,184,769 acres, a decrease of 266,881, or nearly 3 per cent. ; 
England, 7,278,286, a decrease of 250,257; Wales, 498,968, a decrease of 
13,210; Scotland, 1,407,515, a decrease of 3,414. The total acreage in 
wheat, 2,994,957 acres, a decline of 347,524 acres, or nearly 104 per 
cent.; barley and bere, 2,533,109 acres, an increase of 23,408; oats, 
2,789, 530 acres, an increase of 125,521; rye, 56, on acres, an in- 
crease of 1,307; beans, 517,556, a decrease of 46, 625 ; pease, 293,407, 
a decrease of 22,968. England has 94 per cent. of the wheat 
acreage, losing nearly 10 per cent. from 1875; about 6 per cent. of the 
acreage is assigned to Wales and Scotland, the proportion of the 
former being a little the greater; both show a considerable decline 
from last year. Of the acreage in barley and bere, England has about 
83 per cent.; Wales, 6 per cent., and Scotland 11 percent.; it increased 
in England ‘and Scotland, but fell off in Wales. England has about 
55 per cent. of the acreage in oats; Wales, 9 per cent., “and Scotland 36 
per cent., all showing increase. England reports 81 per cent. of the 
rye acreage ; Wales 3per cent., aud Scotland 16 per cent. England has 
94 per cent. of the acreage in beans; Wales, 1 per cent., and Scotland 
5 per cent. England has 98 per cent.of theacreage in pease, and Wales 
more than half of the remainder. 
Under green crops, 3,577,111 acres are reported, falling short of 
1875, 86,996 acres, or about 25 per cent.; England fell from 2,848,473 
acres to 2,754,803 ; Wales from 131,085 to 129,466; Scotland rose from 
684,549 to 692,842. Potatoes declined from 522,653 acres in 1875 to 
505,088 in 1876; England had 60 per cent.; Wales, 8 per cent.; Scot- 
land, 32 per cent. Turnips and swedes covered 2,148,441 acres, an in- 
crease of 5,743 ; England had 73 per cent. of this acreage; Wales, 3 per 
cent.; and Scotland, 24 per cent. The acreage in mangel fell from 
