Practical Agriculture. 
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)a of grass-land, appears in the return on the map in the class 
1 counties possessing the smallest head of homed stock in 
proportion to cultivated area ; while Leicestershire, with its very 
r^e proportion of grazing land, appears among the verv highest 
.ocketl with cattle. In a winter Census this would be exactly 
eversed; Norfolk, with its large proportion of arable land, would 
hen have in its farmyards a heavy stock of cattle in proportion to 
ts arable and pasture together ; Leicestershire, with its small pro- 
lortion of arable, would necessarily have a much smaller number 
li cattle, not in proportion to its arable, but in proportion to its 
irable and pasture together. As to Xorfolk, Mr. C. S. Read, ^LP., Mr. C. S.EeaJ, 
n giving evidence before the Select Committee of the House of ^ 
. ommons on Cattle-Plague and Importation of Live Stock, in the ^nter stock of 
)resent vear, said that " though the agricultural returns mav be Norfolk, 
atisfactory in the gross, they are misleading when you come to 
icalities. For instance, they are collected in June, when we in 
Norfolk have no cattle. I wrote to three graziers, one in Xorth 
N orfolk, one in South Xorfolk, and one in West X orfolk, just 
t haphazard, to ask them to give me the number of cattle that 
hey had over two years old that they had returned to the Board 
f Trade last June, and the number that they had in the previous 
)ecember. The total that they had last month was 98, and the 
otal that they had last December was 414. Those were over 
wo years old ; and when it has been so frequently said that 
exaggerate the import of cattle from Ireland to X'orfolk, I can 
nly say that the Great Eastern Railway last year brought into 
Norfolk no less than 86,000 stores, and at least two-thirds of 
bose came from Ireland." 
The figures on the map are given for every 100 acres cul- Density of ' 
ivated ; but the stock are not precisely upon the cultivated 5°™.™^^ stock- 
cres, seeing that districts of moorland and mountain graze ^jon to^culti- 
lany cattle as well as sheep upon their uninclosed area ; so that vated area, 
ales, for example, shows a high stocking of both cattle and 
-eep in proportion to cultivated area, not because that area is 
pecially well stocked, but because the animals upon the hills 
re included in the returns. But, remembering this unavoidable 
isturbing element in the comparison between the stocking of 
^me, but not of all counties, the facts appear as follows : — 
or every hundred acres cultivated there are in summer 25 cattle Cattle, 
id above, in Westmoreland, Lancashire, Xorth Wales, Cheshire, 
'erbyshire, Leicestershire and Cornwall. There are 15 and 
ader 25 cattle per 100 acres cultivated in Cumberland, the 
orth and West Ridings of Yorkshire, X ottinghamshire, Shrop- 
iire, Staffordshire, Herefordshire, South Wales, Monmouth- 
iire, Gloucestershire, Somersetshire, Devonshire, Dorsetshire, 
arwickshire, Buckinghamshire, Middlesex, X'orthampton- 
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