lo The Landed Interest. 



Increase of The permanent pasture during the same 



pasture. 



period has increased 8 per cent., no doubt from 

 the increased cost of labour and the gradual rise 

 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. 



The general extent of green crops has very 



slightly altered in the ten years, potatoes alone 



Increase of showing some diminution. A large increase, 



the man- 

 gold crop, 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 



