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agriculture during recent years. Thus it appears, that during the 
past ten years the growth of wheat in Ireland has dropped from 
544,348 acres to 280,549 acres, and in Scotland from 243,240 
acres to 110,609 acres. No such comparison is possible in the case 
of England, for we have not a ten years’ record in her case; but it 
is plain that such a record is very desirable, as pointing out how 
agricultural practice is drifting from the old lines without anybody 
otherwise having the chance of knowing it: so that national risks 
are gradually being incurred of which no suspicion had otherwise 
existed. Mr. Caird read a most elaborate and instructive paper the 
other day on this subject before the Statistical Society, pointing 
out the many ways in which the annual publication of our agri- 
cultural produce must tend to regulate trade, and correct the evils 
inflicted by misjudgment here upon agricultural as well as other 
national interests. We place the leading facts of 1866 and 1867 on 
record here for annual reference hereafter. 
PopuLaTion, AREA, ABSTRACT OF ACREAGE UNDER Crops, &c., AND NUMBER OF 
Live Srock mw Eacu Division oF THE UNITED Kine@pom. 
Z Total for 
® | England. | Wales. | Scotland. Great Treland. 
a Britain. 
Total Population A . e « /|1866/20,276,494 | 1,187,103 | 3,136,057 24,599,654 5,571,971 
| | 
Total Area (in Statute Acres) . . | .. (32,590,397 | 4,734,486 |19,639,377 56,964,260 |20,322,641 
Abstract of Acreage :— 
Under all kinds of Crops, renee 1866 22,236,737 | 2,284,674 | 4,158,360 28,679,771 |15,550,231* 
Fallow, and Grass a kue 1867/22,932,356 | 2,519,170 | 4,379,552 29,831,078 15,542,208* 
1866] 7,365,170 521,074 | 1,366,540 | 9,252,784 | 2,174,033 
Under Corn Crops . . es er 521,404 | 1,364,029 | 9,284,780 | 2,115,137 
1866) 2,759,912 139,265 663,257 | 3,562,434 | 1,481,605 
» Green Crops . : siege a 138,387 | 668,042 | 3,498,163 | 1,432,252 
1866 60,979 109,878 94,080 964,937 25,419 
» Bare Fallow . 1867| 753,210 | 86,257! 83,091 | 922,558 | 26,191 
» Grass:—Clover, &., under § 1866) 2,296,087 256,722 | 1,141,415 | 3,694,224 | 1,601,423 
Rotation ant ntn lee \1867| 2,478,117 300,756 | 1,211,101 | 3,989,974 | 1,658,451 
Permanent Pasture, not broken § 1866) 8,998,027 | 1,257,721 893,066 |11,148,814 |10,004,244 
up in Rotation* . : € |1867| 9,545,675 | 1,472,359 | 1,053,285 12,071,319 |10,057,072 
Abstract of Live Stock returned :— 
1866) 3,307,034 541,401 937,401 | 4,785,836 | 3,74 
Total Number of-Cattle . . § , : ,185, 746,157 
1867) 3,469,026 544,538 979,470 | 4,993,034 | 3,702,378 
. of Sheep ited 1 /1866)15,124,541 | 1,668,663 | 5,255,077 |22,048,281 | 4,274,282 
1867|19,798,337 | 2,227,161 6,893,603 (28,919,101 | 4,826,015 
gs of Pigs . : Wee 2,066,299 191,604 219,716 | 2,477,619 | 1,497,274 
1867| 2,548,755 229,917 188,307 | 2,966,979 | 1,233,893 
Number of Persons from whom 
Returns were obtained :— 
Occupiers of Land owning Live | 
Stock, and Occupiers of Land \ sor 338,588 52,072 78,792 469,452 
OILY. Bee leer heicoes ts aeich ee ie About 
Owners of Live Stock only ; 1867| 7,457 572 4,629 12,658 600,000 
a 
* Exclusive of heath or mountain-land. 
