Practical Agriculture. 
m = 201 
The comparative high stocking of the kingdom, appears from Head of live- 
he following statistics of the number of animals per 100 acres '^'."'i'^ compnied 
,. ^ • ^•rr • 11 ir ir With that ot 
ultivateu in diiierent countries, as calculated irom the lacts foreign coun- 
riven in the Agricultural Returns of the Board of Trade. The tries. 
econd, third, and fourth columns show the number of cattle, 
heep, and horses (not only agricultural horses, but horses of all 
vinds, as estimated) for every 100 acres of cultivated area. But 
is the proportion of animals kept depends to a considerable 
xtent upon the amount of uninclosed country, waste, or forest, 
vhich is available for stocking, I have given in the first column 
he proportion which the cultivated area bears to the whole 
■xtent of land, exclusive of lakes and rivers. 
Number of Animals per 100 Acres Cultivated in different 
Countries. 
Country. 
Percentage of 
Total Area, 
which is 
Cultivated. 
Cattle, 
per 100 Acres 
Cultivated. 
Sheep, 
per 100 Acres 
Cultivated. 
Horses of all 
kinds, 
per 100 Acres 
Cultivated. 
76 
16-8 
75-5 
4-4 
57 
23-6 
105-6 
4-7 
23 
24-4 
150-7 
4-1 
Great Britain . . 
56 
18-5 
89-3 
4-4 
77 
26-2 
25-5 
30 
United Kiugdom .. 
62 
211 
68-0 " 
4-0 
Holland 
63 
29-4 
18-7 
5-0 
Denmark 
68 
210 
31-3 
5-3 
66 
25-5 
12-0 
5-8 
61 
26-9 
11-8 
3-1 
11^ 
181 
13-5 
3-8 
49 
20-5 
46-7 
5-4 
It will be seen that England has under cultivation a much 
greater proportion of its whole superficies of land than any 
ountry in Europe ; that while Wales has a large percentage of 
irea uninclosed, and Scotland far more, so that only 23 per cent. 
)f its area is cultivated, Ireland has 77 per cent., or a slightly 
arger proportion than England has of area under cultivation ; 
he result being that the United Kingdom has under arable and 
Pasture 62 per cent, of its total area of land, which is about 
he same as in Holland and Bavaria (if the official figures for 
hose countries may be relied on), somewhat less than in 
Belgium and Denmark, and much greater than in Prussia. 
Thus, in proportion to the total area of land, as well as in pro- 
portion to the area under crops and grass, we have in the United 
ivingdom as many cattle as Denmark, and twice as many sheep ; 
ewer cattle than Bavaria, but six times as many sheep ; and 
