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PARLIAMENTARY PUBLICATIONS. 



Board of Agriculture. — Agricultural Returns for 1900 

 [Cd. 576.] Price is. \d. 



This annual volume, comprising 1 1 7 tables, together with 

 an explanatory report, brings together, in a form for perma- 

 nent record, a variety of information for the most part 

 already published by instalments, either separately or in this 

 Journal, as to the acreage and produce of crops, and the 

 numbers of live stock in Great Britain during last year, 

 with similar data for Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the 

 Channel Islands, and with summaries for the whole of the 

 United Kingdom. Comparative statements, tracing the 

 changes shown by the Agricultural Returns of the last third 

 of the nineteenth century, are however added, and incidental 

 tables supply details respecting the trade in live stock with 

 Ireland,the supplvof meat and produce at the London markets, 

 the prices of corn and meat, and the quantities and values of the 

 imports and exports of agricultural produce. The volume 

 closes with a series of summaries embodying' the leading 

 features which the available statistics of agriculture in the 

 colonies and in foreign countries furnish for comparison with 

 our own. 



It is shown that the information as to crops and live stock 

 in Great Britain was abstracted from 516,068 individual 

 schedules, representing the holdings of persons occupying 

 more than one acre, supplemented by the data given in 

 11,709 schedules from owners of stock who either occupied 

 no land or whose holdings did not exceed one acre. 



Of the total area of land and water in Great Britain, which 

 is given as 56,782,000 acres, 48,600,000 acres are accounted 

 for in one form or another, a surface of 588,000 acres being 



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