284 Farming of Monmouthshire. 
Sheep. 
Sheep. 
Total number as returned upon 5tli March, 1866 .. .. 131,158 
Proportionate number to every one lumdred acres of crops, 
bare fallow, and grass 63'0 
Acreage under each description of Corn Crop. 
Acres. 
Wheat 19,796 
Barley I2,\h0 
Oats 7,904 
Eye 68 
Beans 408 
Peas 1,143 
Total under com crop 41,46& 
Acreage under each description of Green Crop. 
Acres. 
Potatoes 2,445 
Turnips and swedes 9,666 
Mangold 677 
Carrots 74 
Cabbage, kohl-rabi, and rape 199 
Vetches, lucerne, and any other crop (except clover or 
grass) 2,.59-> 
Total 15,058 
Acreage under bare fallow, or uncropped arable land .. 7,526 
Clover and artificial grasses, and other under rotation .. 16,552 
Permanent meadows, pasture, or grass (not broken up in 
rotation), exclusive of hill pasture 127,071 
Total of acreage under all kinds of crops, bare fallow and 
grass .. 208,276 
Meadows. 
It is observable througbout tlie wliole of Soutb Wales that 
nearly all soils return to their natural state of grass with sur- 
prising rapidity ; and this also occurs in a very remarkable 
degree in the neighbouring county of Monmouth. 
Numerous instances may be given of land, even upon the 
mountain sides, which had been apparently exhausted by the 
repeated growth of oats, until it refused to double the seed, but 
which, when left fallow, recovered naturally the green appear- 
ance of the surrounding country. It is not couch that covers it, 
but a small fine grass indigenous to the locality. Some grass- 
fields, if folded very heavily with sheep, will produce white or 
Dutch clover in great abundance. 
What Mr, Hassell says in liis report on Pcmbrolieshire may be 
truly quoted of Monmouthshire. " The mildness of the climate, 
