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Irish Agriculture. 
Table VII. — Distribution of Live Stock on the Various Classes 
of Holdings. 
Classification of Holdings. 
Not exceeding 1 acre * 
Holdings above 1 and not exceeding 5 acres 
Ditto 5 ditto 15 ditto 
Ditto 15 ditto 30 ditto 
Ditto 30 ditto 50 ditto 
Ditto 
Ditto 
Ditto 
Ditto 
50 ditto 
100 ditto 
200 ditto 
500 acres .. 
100 ditto 
200 ditto 
500 ditto 
Total 
Number 
of 
Holdings. 
75,341 
75,895 
171,699 
137,086 
72,511 
55,070 
21 ,876 
8,210 
1,541 
619,229 
Value of 
Live Stock. 
£. 
354,086 
619,275 
4,0.')0,156 
6,581 ,600 
5,954,123 
7,582,057 
5,600,254 
3,774,068 
1,123,323 
Average 
Value 
per Holding. 
£. «. d. 
4 14 0 
8 3 2 
23 11 9 
48 0 3 
82 2 3 
137 13 7 
256 0 0 
459 13 10 
728 19 2 
35,638,942 
57 11 1 
Tables VI. and VII. are official documents, but Tables VIII. 
and IX. (pp. 25 and 26), although not issued by the Registrar- 
General, have been compiled with great care, and are interesting 
as showing the value of Irish live stock during the years 1850 
to 1871. 
These inclusive Tables are from ' Thorn's Annual Directory,' 
an acknowledged authority on statistics relating to Ireland, 
&c. It is necessary to remark that the cattle and sheep offered 
for sale at Ballinasloe may be regarded as chiefly consisting of 
store stock. They are purchased, for the most part, by graziers 
in Leinster, who prepare the cattle and wedders for the Dublin 
and Liverpool markets, while the ewes are kept for producing 
market lambs, and are then fattened off for the butcher. 
The number of cattle, sheep, and swine exported from Ireland 
to Cireat Britain in 1869, were as follows : cattle, 509,106 ; 
sheep, 1,015,694 ; swine, 264,620 ; and in 1870, cattle, 453,969 ; 
sheep, 620,834 ; swine, 422,076. ^ 
Farms and Farm Management. 
The preccdingTable(VH.), on this page, shows that the majority 
of the holdings in Ireland do not exceed 50 statute acres in 
extent. There are altogether 593,282 holdings, and of these no 
less than 506,585 do not exceed 50 acres ; the total extent of 
land held in such farms is 8,077,228 acres ; showing an average 
a little under 16 acres in each holding. 
The medium class of holdings, or tliose over 50 acres and not 
exceeding 200 acres, are 76,946 in number, and include in extent 
7,338,114 acres, being a little over 95 acres on an average. 
