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occupy but 2 per cent. Belgium holds the palm iu cereal and farina- 

 ceous plants, which occupy 48i per cent, of her productive lands ; Den- 

 mark comes next, with 4G.2 per cent,, followed by France, 38.2, Eouma- 

 nia 37, &c. Ireland shows the la,rgest proportion, 05 jyev cent., of natu- 

 ral prairies and pastures, and ISTorway the smallest, 0,7 per cent. 

 Great Britain stands at the head of the list in meadows and annual for- 

 age plants which occupy 22.2 per cent, of the whole ; Ireland and Saxony 

 give over 14 per cent, to this class of crops, and the German duchies 12 

 per cent, ; iu Denmark the proportion falls to 1 per cent. Portugal has 

 the largest proportion, 11.0 per cent., of fallow land; France the next, 

 10.9 per cent. ; Ireland the smallest, 0,1 per cent. France has the largest 

 proportion in Avine-iands, 5.8 per cent., and Portugal next, 4.0 per cent. 



Distribution of the lands actually productive. 



Countries. 



Great Britain.. 



Ireland 



Denmark 



Norway 



Sweden 



Finland 



Austria 



Hungary , 



Bavaria 



Saxony .. 



"Wiirtemberg... 

 German duchie; 



Holland 



Belgium 



France 



Portugal 



Koumania 



Lands under tillasre. 



Pr. ct. 



29.8 

 17.7 

 46.2 

 2. 5 

 C. 5 

 2.1 

 28.0 

 29. 5 

 30.5 

 3t. 4 

 31.9 

 31.0 

 29.8 

 48.5 

 38.2 

 23.7 

 37.0 



Pr.cVPr.ct. 

 0.1 I 0.2 

 0.8 

 0.2 I 0.3 



0.2 

 0.1 

 0.5 



'i.o' 



1.5 



0.4 

 0.5 

 1.0 

 2.6 

 1.1 

 1.1 

 " 2 



0.2 

 0.1 

 0.1 

 1.3 

 1.2 

 1.5 

 1.9 

 2.9 

 2.9 

 4.8 

 1.9 

 1.7 

 1.2 



12.0 



7.9 



6.9 

 0.2 



2.5 

 0.9 

 2.2 

 10.9 

 14.6 

 2.5 



Pr. ct. 

 5J.4 

 33.0 

 53.2 



7.5 

 11.4 



3.3 

 33.7 

 40.0 

 44.7 

 54.4 

 45.7 

 49.5 

 42.5 

 66.1 

 59. 

 41.3 

 42.9 



Other productive lands. 



Pr. ct. 

 39. 

 65. 

 40.0 

 6.7 

 9.2 

 8.1 

 30.4 

 28.4 

 20. 8 

 1.5.3 

 20.6 

 15.0 

 48.1 

 15.3 

 16.5 

 39.9 

 31.2 



Pr.ct.^Pr.ct. 

 6.6 

 2.0 

 6.8 

 85.8 

 79.4 

 88.6 

 35.1 

 30.2 

 34.2 

 30.2 

 32.7 

 34.3 

 9.4 

 18.6 

 18.7 

 14.2 

 24.7 



0.8 

 1.4 

 0.3 

 0.1 

 1.0 

 1.2 



5.8 

 4.6 

 1.2 



Pr. ct. 

 45.6 

 67 

 46.8 

 92.5 

 88.6 

 96.7 

 66.3 

 60.0 

 55.3 

 45.6 

 54.3 

 50.5 

 57.5 

 33.9 

 41.0 

 58.7 

 57.1 



It will be seen that Ireland devotes 79.4 per cent, of her productive 

 area to grass, including artificial and spontaneous growth. The other 

 states, in descending order, stand as follows : Great Britain, 01.2 per 

 cent,; Holland, 50; Denmark, 41 ; Portugal, 40.1 ; Austria, 35,3 ; Kou- 

 mania, 31,2 ; Hungary, 29,5 ; Saxony, 29,4 ; Wiirtemberg, 27,3 ; German 

 duchies, 27; Bavaria, 20; France, 23,4; Belgium, 23,3; Sweden, 12.2 ; 

 Ijforway, 11.3; Finland, 8.1. 



Finally, comparison is made of each branch of culture in the general 

 class to which it belongs. The following table shows the i)ercentage of 

 each general class employed iu the different subordinate classes included 

 in it. It will be seen that Boumania and Austria give the largest pro- 

 portions of their tilled lands, 80,3 and 83,3 per cent,, to cereals and fari- 

 naceous crops. Koumania stands first in market-garden crops, Belgium 

 in industrial crops, and Norway in meadow and annual forage crops. 

 Of other productive lands, Ireland has nearly the whole in natural past- 

 ure, orchards, &c., and Norway nearly 93 per cent, in woods and forests. 

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