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Allotments and Small Holdings. 
X;inie of Applicant Title of Invention 
. Mouth-bit for administering medicines. 
. Hay rack for cattle stalls, &c. 
. Instrument for dishorning cattle, &C. 
. Cultivation of mushrooms. 
. Protecting stacks from vermin. 
. Composition for foot rot in sheep. 
. Sharpening sheep- shearing machines. 
. Apparatus for blowing the carcasses of 
calves, &c. 
. Malt curing apparatus. 
Numbers of Specifications Published 1 
(with prices in parentheses). 
575 {Ad.), 1324 (id.), 1787 (fid.), 2049 (fid.), 2376 (8^.), 2679 (Gd.), 3456 (Sd.), 
4526 (8d.), 4945 (Gd.), 5921 (Gd.), 6177 (Sd.), 6344 (6d.), 6360 (Gd.), 
6456 (Gd.), 6576 (8d.), 6797 (6^.), 7847 (Gd.), 8354 (4(2.), 8483 (lid.), 
8980 (Gd.), 9396 (11^.), 9473 (Gd.), 9698 (Gd.), 10132 (Gd.), 10270 (Gd.). 
11903 Cannon, G. T. 
11998 Adams, C J. D. . 
12064 Hadden, J. . 
12168 Bernal, J. P. 
12257 WOODEOFFE, F. K. 
12555 Leabneb, A. J. . 
13275 BuBGON, C. . 
13377 King, W. F. 
13694 KONIO, M. . 
ALLOTMENTS AND SMALL HOLDINGS. 
The Board of Agriculture has issued a " Return of Allotments 
and Small Holdings in Great Britain," obtained by the Inland Reve- 
nue Department. It is prefaced by a Report, addressed to the 
President of the Board, by Major Craigie, the Director of the Statis- 
tical, Intelligence, and Educational Department, from which the 
following details are taken. 
Definition of terms. — -The allotments have been obtained by a 
special inquiry in upwards of 13,500 parishes. The small holdings 
are abstracted from the last annual Agricultural Returns. The 
allotments now enumerated are all areas under one acre in extent, 
and by far the larger number of these are below a quarter of an 
acre. Only about two-sevenths of the entire number exceed a 
quarter of an acre. 
Results of present returns. — The returns show 455,005 cases in 
which separate detached allotments of less than an acre now exist in 
Great Britain. The number of small holdings other than allotments 
is 409,422. 
For one in every seven of these holdings, or in 55,740 cases, the 
present occupier is also returned as owner of the soil, while in at 
least 12,613 other cases, reported during the inquiry, ownership of 
part of the holding is ascribed to the cultivator. 
Increase of allotments. — The growth in number of fairly com- 
parable allotments, in Great Britain as a whole, appears to be that 
indicated in the subjoined statement, from which, after making every 
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