Nottingfiamsldre and Lincolnshire in 1888 : Class 1. 511 
tages of capital, enterprise, and modern acquirements with 
which to meet it. 
In area Lincolnshire is second in size of the counties ot 
England, Yorkshire only being larger. It contains in gross 
extent of land and water 1,767,962 acres, 28,000 of which is 
waste or uncropped land. 
Some of the following tables of statistics have been suggested 
by those in Mr. Little's Report of last year, which the writer 
feels to have been much too interesting and useful to be neglected 
as a precedent in this. 
Thus, the table below shows the poimlation of Lincolnshire 
and Nottinghamshire, and the number of persons per square 
acre in each county, with the same particulars of England for 
comparison : — 
Lincoln 
Notts 
England 
469,919 
391,815 
24,008,391 
No. of persons per square acre .... 
•27 
•74 
•75 
Lincolnshire therefore, in spite of a large proportion of small 
holdings, as will be shown directly, is very thinly populated, 
much less densely than Notts, or than England as a whole. 
The number of people per square acre is singularly alike in the 
two latter cases. The census returns readily explain the anomaly 
by showing how few persons are engaged in Lincolnshire in any 
industry other than that of agi'iculture, the only other in fact of 
any note being — fittingly enough — the manufacture of agricul- 
tural implements, which is considerable. 
The number of persons per 100 acres engaged solely in 
agriculture is about the same in both counties. The proportion of 
permanent grass in the total cultivated land is, as will be shown, 
rather less than one-third for Lincoln, and for Notts but very 
little less than a half, so that more hands per acre of arable land 
must be employed in the latter county, and this too in spite of 
the fact that Lincolnshire contains the larger proportion of small 
holdings, which usually absorb the most labour. 
The Distribution of Holdings of Land. — Lincolnshire is very 
much a county of large estates, and, as usually follows, of large 
farms. Thus there are 14 owners of 10,000 acres and upwards, 
a number exceeded only in the case of Yorkshire, where there 
are 31 such owners, and by Northumberland, where there are 
17. The area of Yorkshire is, however, more than twice that of 
Lincolnshire. The average number of such owners per county 
