RE).>ORT OF THE STATI8TICIAN. 



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Population and areas. 



Countries. 



Great Britain 



Ireland 



Denmark 



Norway 



Sweden 



Kussia 



FinJand 



Austria -, 



Hungary 



Switzerland 



Prussia <... 



Bavaria 



Saxony 



AV iirteuiTjerg ^ 



B^den 



Hesse-DarmsTiadt . 



Saxe- Weimaj ■ 



Saxe-Altenllarg. .. 



Holland 



Belgium ;. 



France , 



Portugal , 



Spain . , 



Italy , 



Greece....^ 



Turkey , 



Servia'...- 



Koumania 



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I 



1873 

 1673 



len 



1673 

 1870 

 1870 

 1S70 

 1S71 

 1--73 

 18GS 



ie67 



1873 

 1673 

 1873 

 1873 

 1B73 

 1873 

 1873 

 1873 

 1873 

 1873 

 1865 

 1857 



18G7 

 18G8 

 1868 

 1873 



26, 787, 337 

 5,337,-61 

 1, 784, 741 

 1, 7(!3, 000 

 4, a97, 97-J 



71,730,980 



1, 832, 000 

 20, 304, 980 

 15, 509, 445 



2, CG9, 147 

 24, 656, 078 



4, 852, 026 



2, 555, 244 

 1, 818, 539 

 1, 461, 562 



852, 894 

 286, 183 

 141, 122 



3, 716, 002 



5, 253, 821 

 36, i02, 921 



4,011,908 

 16,262,422 

 26, 801, 154 

 1, 457, 894 

 8, 700, 000 

 1, :{38, 500 



4, 500, 000 



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Acres. 



57, 623, 333 



20,811,357 



9. 448, 691 



78, 663, 021 



110, 629, 417 



1, 268, 890, 822 



93, 371, 2'i5 



74, 180, 173 



80, 027, 559 



10, 234, 802 



85, 788, 437 



19. 360. 648 



3, 704, 070 



4, 803, 571 

 3, 774. 358 

 2, 072, 512 



8S0, 700 



326. 558 



8,123,200 



7, 278, 872 



130, 733, 581 



22, 508, 508 



12.5, 223. 666 



64, 080, 565 



11,766,143 



89, 957, 183 



10, 762, 876 



29, 893, 638 



Acres. 

 18,317,276 

 5, 283, 92S 

 3, 434, 925 

 1, 571), 031 

 6, 257, 507 



1,931,659 

 22, 273, 312 

 27, 966, 121 



7, 666, 407 



1, 863, 328 



2, 093, 593 

 1,498,969 



1, 043, 620 

 498, 665 

 190, 579 



2, 437, 0.13 



3, 926, 704 

 64,984,190 



4, 551, 400 



8, 656, 770 



Acres. 

 15,281,539 

 10,742,811 

 3,013,274 

 20,01.5,910 

 47, 990, 670 



Acres. 

 33, 593, 806 

 16,026,739 



6, 448, 199 

 21, 586, 541 

 54, 254, 236 



5.5, 797, 438 

 43,892,694 

 41, 935, 140 



9, .524, 886 

 1, .561, 560 

 2,481,978 



1, S84, 293 

 889,012 

 312,315 

 120, 241 



3, 263, 053 



2, 007, 087 

 45, 209, 091 



6, 449, 571 



57, 729, 097 

 66, 166, 006 

 69, 901, 261 



17, 191, 293 



3, 4,-4, 888 



4, .575, 571 

 3, 483, 262 

 1,932,632 



810, 980 

 3)0,820 



5, 700, 086 

 5, 933, 791 



110, 193, 2S1 

 11,000,971 



11, 518, 343 



20, 175, 113 



Ivi the above classification, lands under tillage, or regular plow-culture, 

 ■wh^ither in a system of rotation or otherwise, constitute the first grand 

 division, which includes cereals, farinaceous crops, (such as pease, beans, 

 and potatoes,) grass crops, and all others, together with land in fallow. 

 The other grand division of productive lands, not subjected to regular or 

 periodical plow-breaking, includes orchards, vineyards, pastures, and 

 woods and torestc. A wide range of diflerence is found in the propor- 

 tions of productive area in different countries. The states of the Ger- 

 man Empire represented in the above table have utilized nearly the 

 whole of their respective territories in some form of production, their 

 proportion of waste land varying from 4 to 11.3 per cent, of the whole. 

 At the-other extreme, as might be expected, are those bleak, inhospitable 

 northern regions, Finland, Sweden, and Norway. The two former have 

 about half, and the latter nearly three-fourths, of their territories entirely 

 unproductive. It is remarkable that Portugal, in a bright southern 

 climate, has less than half her area 0(!cupied with any sort of production. 

 This is partly due to the very large surface covered hj her mountain 

 ranges. Great Britain utilizes but 58 per cent, of her territory in agri- 

 cultural production, and 28 per cent, of her agricultural lands are un- 

 used, leaving about 14 per cent, for sites of cities and towns, lakes, 

 streams, roads, &c. France and Belgium utilize in agriculture five- 

 sixths of their lands, including mountains and rivers. AustroHungary 

 lose only from 10 to 12 per cent., Holland nearly a third, and Ireland 

 nearly a fourth of their respective areas. 



Of lands under tillage, the states showing the largest proportion, in 

 descending order, are Saxe-AltGnburg, Saxe- Weimar, Belgium, and 



