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Herts .. .. 
Wilts 
.. 12-2 
Carmarthen .. 
.. !)-4 
Herts 
.. 8-6 
Middlesex .. 
.. G-7 
Wilts ., .. 
Sussex 
.. 7-9 
Wilts .. .. 
.. 5-7 
(lavdii^iin 
.. 4-0 
Devon 
.. 7-1 
West Kiding 
.. fj-f) 
3-9 
Dorset 
.. G-7 
Herts .. .. 
5-4 
3-8 
Hunts 
,. G'3 
.. 4-3 
Into thfi causes of the pre-eminence of these counties in the 
matter of defective Returns it is not necessary now to enter ; but 
it may possibly serve a useful purpose thus to have recorded 
some of the most flagrant instances of omission, let us hope only 
to indicate the measure of future improvement. The requsition 
for particulars of their stock and acreage is a novelty to English 
farmers, and the object and meaning of such a requisition are 
probably as yet hardly understood ; in Scotland, on the other 
hand, the farmers having long since been familiarised with these 
statistics through the labours of the Highland Society, know 
their value and give their hearty co-operation, and it may safely 
be predicted that a similar acquiescence will gradually be 
yielded south of the Tweed. 
The subjoined statement gives in broad outline the results of 
the Acreage Returns in 1866 and 1867 : — 
TOTAI, AREaI 
in Statute 
Acres. 
Total Aceeage 
returned under all kinds 
of Cultivation. 
Arable. 
Pasture. 
1866. 
1867. 
1866. 
1867. 
1866. 
1867. 
England and ) 
Wales . . ] 
Scotland . . . 
37,324,883 
19,639,377 
24,521,411 
4,158,360 
25,451,526 
4,379,552 
14,265,663 
3,265,294 
14,433,492 
3,326,267 
10,255,748 
893,066 
ll,ol,S,03 
1,053,28 
Gi'eat Britain . 
Ireland . . . 
Islands in BriO 
tish Seas . j 
56,9f)4,260 
20,815,460 
226,684 
28,679,771 
15,550,231 
115,258 
29,831,078 
15,542,208 
117,811 
17,530,957 
5,5-15,987 
93,529 
17,759,759 
5,485,136 
89,661 
11,148,814 
10,004,244 
21,729 
12,071,31 
10,057,07 
28,15 
United Kingdom 
78,006,404 
44.345,260 
45,491,097 
23,170,473 
23,334,556 
21,174,787 
22,156,54 
Under the head of " arable " land in this table is included 
the acreage under all corn and green crops, bare fallow, clover 
and other grasses under rotation, and hops or flax ; the pasturage 
is exclusive of heath or mountain-land in Great Britain, but 
inclusive thereof in Ireland — a discrepancy which greatly 
impairs the value of the Returns for comparative statistical 
purposes. 
The areas of the several divisions of the kingdom are taken 
from the respective Census Reports of 1861, presumably the 
most accurate sources of information in that respect ; they are 
inclusive of a certain amount of water area, which as nearly as 
