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PARLIAMENTARY PUBLICATIONS. 



Board of Agriculture. Agricultural Returns for 1901. 

 [Co 7 . 1 121]. Price is. 3d. 



The statistics collected by the Board of Agriculture of the 

 acreage and produce of crops and the number of live stock 

 in Great Britain in 1901 have been published from time to 

 time as they became available either separately or in the 

 pages of this Journal. They are now brought together for 

 convenient reference and permanent record in the usual 

 annual volume which also comprises a series of tables 

 (numbering 138 in all) giving particulars 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 information of 

 colonial and foreign agriculture. 



In the report which is prefixed to the tables Major Craigie 

 states that the returns of acreage and live stock were com- 

 piled from 514,635 schedules representing holdings of more 

 than one acre of land and from 10,985 supplementary 

 returns received from owners of live stock not occupying land 

 or occupying not more than one acre. Resort to estimates 

 was necessary in the case of less than 3 per cent, of the total 

 number of schedules, 



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

 56,786,000 acres, of which 13,000,000 represent mountain and 

 heath land, used for grazing stock ; 2,726,000 were occupied 

 by woods and plantations, and 32,417,000 were under culti- 

 vation. The land under the plough is shown to have fallen 

 in Great Britain from 59 per cent, in the period 1867-71 to 49 

 per cent, in the period 1 897-1 901. 



The returns of the estimated yield of crops in 1901 show 

 that, although wheat was stated to be nearly a bushel per acre 

 over average, the results of the corn harvest generally were 



