466 = 200 
Practical Agriculture. 
shire, and Rutland. There are 10 and under 15 cattle per 100 
acres cultivated in Northumberland, Durham, the East Riding 
of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Huntingdonshire, Bedfordshire, 
Surrey, Sussex, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, and Worcestershire. 
J There are under 10 per 100 acres in Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, 
Suffolk, Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent, and Hampshire. The highest 
number of cattle is 30^ for every 100 acres in Cheshire and in 
Lancashire ; and the lowest 8 to 8 J in Suffolk and Hampshire. 
Sheep. The sheep stocking is thus : flocks of 100 and more for every 
100 acres cultivated, are an average in Northumberland, Lincoln- 
shire, Cambridgeshire, Rutland, Kent, Dorsetshire, and North 
and South Wales. There are between 75 and 100 sheep per 100 
acres cultivated in Cumberland, the North Riding of Yorkshire, 
Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Herefordshire, 
Monmouthshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Sussex, Hampshire, 
Wiltshire, Somersetshire, Devonshire, and Cornwall. There are 
between 50 and 75 sheep per 100 acres cultivated in the West and 
East Ridings of Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, 
Huntingdonshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Gloucester- 
shire, Worcestershire, and Shropshire. And there are fewer than 
50 sheep per 100 acres cultivated in Lancashire, Cheshire, Derby- 
shire, Staffordshire, Essex, Middlesex and Surrey. The highest 
stocking of sheep in English counties is 138 per 100 acres in 
Westmoreland (which some Welsh counties very much exceed), 
and the lowest is 20^ in Cheshire. 
Horses. Horses used in agriculture, unbroken horses, and mares used 
solely for breeding, are in more uniform numbers. There 
are 5 and more for every 100 acres cultivated, in the East 
Riding of Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex 
Middlesex, and Cornwall. There are 4 and less than 5 per 10(j 
acres in Durham, Lancashire, North and West Ridings o 
Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Cheshire 
Shropshire, North and South Wales, Herefordshire, Monmouth 
shire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire 
Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, fluntingdon 
shire, Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire, and Devonshire. Ther 
are 3^ and less than 4 per 100 acres in Cumberland, Staffordshin 
Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire, Gloucestershire, an 
Somersetshire. And there are fewer than 3^ per 100 acres i 
Northumberland, Wiltshire, and Dorsetshire. The greates' 
strength of teams, in proportion to arable and pasture together, 3 
5^ to 5| per 100 acres in Cumberland, Cambridgeshire, Norfol 
Suffolk, and the East Riding of Yorkshire ; being mainly du 
to the excessive quantity of arable in proportion to the grass 
and the lowest numbers of horses are 2| and 3 per 100 acres < 
cultivated land in Northumberland and Wiltshire. 
