886 Statistics affecting British Agricultural Interests. 
Table II. — Number of Horses, Cattle, Sheep, and Pigs as returned 
upon June 4 in the Years 1890 and 1889 in Great Britain; 
with Total for the United Kingdom. 
GREAT BRITAIN 
UNITED KINGDOM, 
including Isle op Man 
and Channel Islands 
1890 
1889 
1890 
1889 
Horses (e) H 
rUsetl solely for Agriculture 
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Mares kept solely for breed- 1 
tag t 
No. 
981,275 
393,915 
57 430 
No. 
981,753 
387',395 
52 241 
No. 
i a \ 
\y f 
(sO- 
«/) — 
No. 
(a} 
(<>)- 
f/n 
(ffl — 
1,432,620 
1,421,389 
... 
1,964,911 
1,945,386 
Cattle. - 
(■Cows and Heifers in Milk 1 
or in Calf . . . .) 
Othe r (2 Years and above 
Cattle. 1 "Under 2 Years 
2,537,990 
1,439,119 
2,531,523 
2,433,639 
1,453,859 
2,252,057 
3,956,220 
2,361,424 
4,472,214 
3,814,593 
2,369,501 
4,088,671 
^ Total .... 
6,508,632 
6,139,555 
10,789,858 
10,272,765 
SnEnr. 
' 1 Year old and above . 
Under 1 Year old 
16,756,568 
10,515,891 
15,862,132 
9,769,888 
19,332,472 
12,334,723 
18,148,352 
11,336,422 
Total . . --r- . 
27,272,459 
25,632,020 
31,667,195 
29,484,774 
?tse (/) 
2,773,609 
! 2,5lj),803 
4,362,040 
3,905,865 
(e) As returned by Occupiers of Land. — Including Ponies. 
(/) With the exception of those for Ireland, the numbers of Pigs are exclusive of those kept in 
towns, and by cottagers with less than a quarter of an acre of land. 
(g) Cannot be separately distinguished for the United Kingdom. 
Land occupied by Owners or Tenants,. — The statistics collected 
show that, although the changes are not uniform in direction, there 
is a very slight decrease of the entire percentage of land this year 
in the hands of owners (14-78 against 1 4*82) compared with the 
figures for 1889. For Great Britain as a whole, the cultivated sur- 
face — which in the Returns excludes all woods and mountain and 
heath land— recorded as farmed by its owners, is 4,843,000 acres 
against 4,852,000 acres last year, while that accounted for as in the 
hands of tenants is 27,925,000 against 27,881,000. The general 
decrease of owner-farmed land which distinguishes the country as 
a whole appears to be relatively more marked in Scotland than in 
England, while in the Welsh counties generally an opposite ten- 
dency appears, and there is rather more land on the owners' hands 
than there was before. 
Arable and Pasture Area, — A material and nearly Continuous 
shrinkage of the land under the plough has now been in progress 
for the last 18 years, accompanied by a continuous and still larger 
extension of the recorded Grass area, but the Arable area is still 
the greater of the two, if Great Britain be regarded as a whole. 
This is not quite the case if the English figures be viewed by them 1 
selves (Table III., page 887). 
