The Agriculture of Staffordshire. 
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Total of Acrei'<je under all kinds of Crops, Ban Falli^w, and Grass, in 1SG8. 
Acres. 
Corn-crops 129,171 
Green crops 44,54f) 
Artificial grasses and clover under rotation .. 45,631 
Permanent pasture, not broken up in rotation) 
(exclusive of heath on mountain lands) .. ../ "'^'^^ 
Bare fallow 11,242 
Flax 22 
Total acres under cultivation 
57(1,723 
Houses, water, &c., or in waste, or occupied by'i 
roads • | in / ,745 
Total 728,408 
Green Crops. j^^,^^^ 
Potatoes .. 9,840 
Turnips and swedes 28,376 
Mangold .. 2,434 
Carrots 137 
Cabbage, kohlrabi, and rape .. 926 
Vetches, lucerne, and any otherl ^ gg., 
crop (except clover or grass) / " ' 
Corn Crops. 
Wheat 60,092 
Barley 29,495 
Oats 30,594 
Rye 805 
Beans 3,969 
Peas 4,216 
44,545 129,171 
At the date when these returns were collected, 2oth June, 1868, one-fifth 
of the land entered as fallow or under green crops was under bare fallow. 
The acreage under arable cultivation was 230,611 acres, of which 129,171 acres 
were under corn-crops, and 101,44-0 acres were under green crops, artificial 
grasses, flax, and bare fallow. 
The four-course rotation, which in purely arable districts is found so 
desirable, is seldom adhered to under dairy farming. Tlie size of farms is 
small. The number of occupiers was 12,867, and the average extent returned 
by each, 44 acres. 
The Average Size of Farms in several Counties is — 
Acres. 
Berkshire 87 
Dorsetshire 95 
Essex 77 
Hampshire 88 
Leicestershire 57 
Norfolk 63 
Sussex 76 
Acres. 
Staffordshire 44 
Derbyshire 40 
Cheshire 40 
Cornwall 36 
Lancashire 33 
Middlesex 42 
Wiltshire 107 
Northumberland 122 
These figures will supply the means of making certain comparisons, but 
they do not show the comparative extent of land occupied by the different 
classes of farmers. In Staffordshire the average size of farms is reduced by 
the small occupiers around the large towns and by the small freeholders on 
Need wood Forest and Cannock Chase. 
The dairy farms are generally under 200 acres ; 400 acres is a very large 
farm. Even in the light-land districts the farms are small ; they are generally 
under 300 acres ; 400 is quite an unusual size, and there are very few farms 
exceeding 500 acres. 
Live Stock in Staffordshire on 25th June, 1868. 
Cattle 125,046 
Sheep 365,945 
Pigs 53,788 
