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APPENDIX XIV. 



ALLOTMENTS IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 



The number of agricultural labourers, farm servants, and 

 cottagers (not including females and shepherds) in England 

 and Wales is 807,608 persons. 



The following table shows — (1) How many labourers have 

 («) potato-grounds ; (b) cow-runs, whether general or definite 

 (and in the latter case the acreage). (2) The number and 

 size of allotments, whether field gardens or attached to cottages, 

 from under -g of an acre to 4 acres. 



In this table no allotments given by railway companies 

 to their servants are included. Throughout the table the Eng- 

 lish counties, in which the allotments, &c., are situated, have 

 been classified in four divisions : 



I. Eastern and North - eastern, including Bedford, 

 Cambridge, Essex, Herts, Hunts, Lincoln, Norfolk, Suffolk, 

 East Riding of Yorkshire. 



II. South-eastern and East Midland, including Berks, 

 Bucks, Hants, Kent, Leicester, Middlesex, Northants, Notts, 

 Oxford, Rutland, Surrey, Sussex, Warwick. 



III. West Midland and South - western, including 

 Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucester, Hereford, Monmouth, 

 Shropshire, Somerset, Wilts, Worcester. 



IV. North and North - western, including Chester, 

 Cumberland, Derby, Durham, Lancaster, Northumberland, 

 Stafibrd, Westmoreland, North and West Ridings of York- 

 shire. 



The first two constitute the corn division ; the last two 

 the grazing division of the country. 



