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The curves showing the changes in the number of cattle and stock- 

 sheep which also have an influence on the demand for labour keeping. 

 are also of interest. Here again the change in Scottish 

 agriculture, judged by these tests, has been much less than in 

 England and Wales. The increase of sheep in Wales is 

 noticeable, and the fact is referred to in many of the reports 

 as connected with the reduction of arable land and affecting 

 the demand for labour. 



Even more suggestive are the divergences apparent in the Divisional 

 four agricultural divisions of England (see Map) as shown in differences, 

 the following diagram, which is prepared on the same basis as 

 that preceding: 



Ar&ble L&nd Labourers 



It is apparent from this brief survey of the figures that other other cause 

 and perhaps even more powerful influences have been affecting 

 agricultural labour than either the laying down of land to 

 grass or the quantity of stock kept in the country. There is 



