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PARLIAMENTARY PUBLICATIONS. 



Board of A gricultu re. — Agricultu ral Sta ti : sties, 1 90 2 . [ Cd. 1 6 1 6. ] 



Price is. $d. 



The annual volume hitherto known as the Agricultural 

 Returns is now issued under the general title of Agricultural 

 Statistics, 1902. The agricultural returns of Great Britain, 

 properly so-called, are published in two sections, the tables 

 relating to acreage and live stock, with remarks on the features 

 of the year, having been issued in October, and the full details 

 of the produce of crops, with similar comments, in February. 

 In each case a preliminary statement, comprising only the total 

 figures, was issued some two months earlier.* The present 

 volume contains, in addition to these, full particulars of British 

 agriculture, a large number of tables embodying details of the 

 prices of corn and other agricultural produce, the weather of 

 the British Isles, the supply of cattle, sheep and pigs at the 

 principal markets of the country, the imports and exports of 

 agricultural produce, and the latest available statistics relating 

 to Colonial and foreign agriculture. 



In his " General Report on the Statistics," Major Craigie 

 states that the returns of acreage and live stock were compiled 

 from 513,489 separate schedules, and 10,360 supplementary 

 returns from owners of live stock. Resort to estimates was 

 only necessary in less than 3 per cent, of the total number 

 of individual returns. 



The total area of land and water in Great Britain stands at 

 56,786,000 acres, of which 12,884,000 are mountain and heath 

 land used for grazing stock, 32,388,000 acres were under crops 

 and grass, and 2,726,000 were occupied by woods and planta- 

 tions, according to the return of 1895. 



The report on the weather conditions and crop results of the 



* See Journal, Vol. IX., No. 2, p. 202 ; No. 3, p. 332. 



