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The Agricultural Returns of 1866 and 1867. 
civn be ascertained is about 952,000 acres in England and Wales, 
1;);),000 acres in Scotland, and 500,000 acres in Ireland, making 
altogether for the United Kingdom about 1,007,000 acres. To 
ascertain the proportion ot" cultivated acreage (as returned) 
to total area, deduction is first made for this water area, and 
then it appears that 60 per cent, of the total land area of the 
United Kingdom was returned in 1867 as under some sort of 
cultivation, 31 per cent, of that cultivated proportion being 
arable, and 29 per cent, pasture ; the proportions for the several 
divisions were as follows : — 
rroportiou per cent. Cultivated. 
Total. Arabic. Pasture. 
Ireland 77 .. ,. 27 .. .. 50 
England and Wales 70 .... 40 .... 30 
Islands in British Seas 52 .... 40 .... I'i 
Scotland 22 .... 17 .... 5 
The discrepancies which these ratios bring to light arise from 
tlie omission in the Scotch and English Returns of heath and 
mountain pastures, which are included in the Irish Returns : 
that this is so will be more clearly manifest on comparing the 
number of live stock sustained in the three kingdoms with their 
respective areas. 
Estimated 
Population on 
1st Jan., 1S67.* 
Estimated 
Total Lanil 
Area in Statute 
Acres. 
Total Live Stock returned iu 
1866. 
1867. 
I'^ugland and Wales . . 
Great Britain 
Islands in British Seas 
United Kingdom 
21,40.3,597 
3,162,091 
36,372,883 
19,484,377 
22,899,542 
6,412, 194 
28,811,718 
8,061,380 
24,625,688 
5,569,910 
143,447 
55,857,260 
20,315,460 
226,684 
29,311,730 
9,517,713 
118,272 
30,873,098 
9,702,286 
129,124 
30,339,045 
70,399,404 
38,947,721 
40,704,508 
The anomaly which is most apparent in the Returns is the dis- 
proportion of stock to the total area returned as under culti- 
vation ; Scotland, for example, appeal's to have nearly tivicc as 
many live stock in proportion to her cultivated area as England, 
but on the other hand, according to the Returns, Scotland has 
only half as much pasture in proportion to her cultivated area as 
England. In fact if the Returns of stock and acreage are 
compared the results in the following table are arrived at, and 
they sufficiently attest the necessity for bringing into any future 
Returns the tracts of mountain or other pasture. 
* The population used throughout this paper for each division of the United 
Kingdom lias been estimated to a uniform date — 1st January, 1807 — and will 
therefore not agree with the iigures given in the IJeturns. 
