Report on the Farm-Prize Competition of 1886. 569 
These figures further show that the quantity of potatoes grown 
is very small, and we may also note that only one-fourth of the 
whole cultivated area consists of permanent grass. 
I now turn to the Live-stock Statistics. 
Horses. — Used solel}'' for agricultural purposes , , . . 43 , 722 
„ Unbroken horses and brood mares .. .. 19,185 
62,907 
This shows that there is about one pair of working horses to 
every 37 acres of arable land. The number of young horses 
and brood mares in the county is very large, being only ex- 
ceeded by the numbers returned from Yorkshire and Devon- 
shire, and being 6 per cent, of the total number returned for 
the whole of England. 
Cattle. — Cows and heifers in calf or milk 32,733 
Other cattle 89,822 
122,555 
.. .. 10,458 
i,413 
7,102 
9,515 
943 
The number of cattle shown by these Returns is small as 
compared with that returned from other counties ; but they do 
not give even an approximate idea of what are maintained in 
the county for half the year at least. Owing chiefly to the 
small acreage of grass, few cattle are kept during the summer 
months, and when the Returns are collected, the county may be 
said to be almost denuded of them ; but large numbers are bought 
in the autumn to consume the straw and root-crops during 
the winter. If the Returns were made in January, instead of 
June, a very different complexion would be put on the matter ; 
and it probably would be found that besides being one of the 
largest corn-growing districts in the kingdom, Norfolk is also 
one of its greatest beef-producers. If the Returns made in 
1885 may be taken as those of an average year, it would appear 
jthat the number of cattle bred in Norfolk does very little 
'more than balance the deficiency caused by death and by 
animals slaughtered on the holdings. It would be interesting 
if we could by any means arrive at the number of store 
cattle annually brought into Norfolk from other parts of the 
kingdom, 
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Cattle bred in the county during one year 
,, died from disease or accident .. 
„ slaughtered for meat on holdings 
