A HISTORY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE 



TABLES SHOWING THE ACREAGE UNDER EACH CROP AND THE NUMBER OF LIVE STOCK IN THE COUNTY 

 OF GLOUCESTER IN EACH OF THE UNDERMENTIONED YEARS continued. 



* Not separately distinguished. 



The figures speak for themselves, and it is only necessary to make a few 

 brief remarks on this instructive table. The decreases in the thirty years, as 

 far as crops are concerned, are 68,104 acres of corn (of which 44,186 acres 

 is wheat), 23,918 acres of turnips and green crops, and bare fallow is also 

 5,138 acres less. On the other hand we see that permanent pasture shows 

 an increase of 114,639 acres. 



As regards live stock there is an increase in cattle of 19,225, of horses 

 "5,771, and pigs 1 1,262, and a decrease in sheep of 104,973. 



Some further explanation of the live stock figures is necessary. The 

 increase in the number of horses, in spite of the decreased acreage of cultivated 

 land, is accounted for by the fact that in 1875 a large number of working 

 oxen were kept upon the arable farms, which is no longer the case, and at 



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