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Estates Belonging to the Crown. [nov., 



The fifth report of the President of the Board of Agricul- 

 ture and Fisheries as a Commissioner of Woods is included 

 in the recently issued eighty-ninth re- 

 The Agricultural P ort of the Commissioners of his 

 Estates belonging Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land 

 to the Crown. Revenues (H.C. 205, 191 1). 



The principal agricultural estates 

 belonging to the Crown and under the charge of the President 

 of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries as a Commissioner 

 of Woods comprised at March 31st, 191 1, about 63,480 acres, 

 divided as follows, viz.: — 7,124 acres let for small holdings 

 and allotments; 56 farms containing between 50 and 250 

 acres ; 60 farms containing between 250 and 500 acres ; 25 

 farms containing between 500 and 750 acres; 1 farm con- 

 taining between 750 and 1,000 acres; 6 farms containing 

 upwards of 1,000 acres, consisting largely of downland; 

 about 357 acres of grass land, the grazing of which is let 

 annually in lots by auction; and about 2,500 acres of wood- 

 land. 



The acreage of land let for small holdings and allotments 

 up to March 31st, 19 10, was 6,689, and that of the land so 

 let to March 31st last 7,124, being an increase during the past 

 vear of about 435 acres, and a total increase of about 6,131 

 acres in the last five years. During the time that Lord 

 Carrington has had the management of the agricultural 

 estates there have been erected for small holders 58 new 

 cottages and 41 sets of farm buildings; 28 cottages have been 

 substantially altered or improved, and the homesteads and 

 buildings on the farms which w^ere divided into small hold- 

 ings have been remodelled to fit them for the use of 30 

 small holders. On the 435 acres let for small holdings during 

 the current year, nine new cottages and 11 new sets of farrr. 

 buildings are being or are about to be erected. Arrange- 

 ments are in hand for letting a further area of land for smal 

 holdings and allotments. 



The gross receipts during the year ended March 31st las 

 from these estates amounted to ,£66,198, as compared wit] 

 the average annual gross receipts (exclusive of the receipt 

 from the sale of produce and live and dead stock on farm 

 then in hand) of ^60,969 for the three years to March 31s 



