THE LANDED 



in the value of live stock and its produce. This 

 increase of 8 per cent., amounting to nearly one 

 million acres, not having diminished the extent 

 of corn, must represent an addition of that 

 breadth gained by reclamation during the ten 

 years ; and, as some considerable extent of land 

 is yearly taken from cultivation by the increase 

 of towns and the construction of new railroads, 

 this shows an important gain by agricultural 

 enterprise. 

 Increase of The general extent of green crops has very 



the man- 

 gold crop, slightly altered in the ten years, potatoes alone 



showing some diminution. A large increase, 

 however, in the proportion of mangold is shown 

 by a rise of 100,000 acres more than in 1867. 

 This is a root-crop peculiarly well suited to the 

 deep soils and dry and warm climate of the 

 south-east and southern counties ; and its keep- 

 ing properties, continuing well into the following 

 summer, are a great recommendation to the 

 stock farmer. A rise of 40 per cent, in the 

 breadth cultivated, within so short a period as ten 

 years, is a convincing proof that the great value 

 of this plant is at length beginning to be gene- 



