The AffricxiUural Retwita of 1866 andl^Ql. 
221 
Acres of 
Land Area 
to every 100 
Pioportionato Number of Live Stock in 1kG7. 
To 
To every 100 Acres of 
ol 
Population. 
every 100 
of 
I'opuliition. 
Total 
Land Area. 
Total 
Cultivated 
Area. 
I'nstnri'. 
England :iiul Wales 
109 
134 
79 
118 
262 
616 
255 
41 
184 
765 
365 
175 
48 
63 
97 
Islands in Hi'itish Seas .. 
158 
90 
57 
110 
459 
The cattle are returned for Scotland, but the pasturage on 
which they feed is evidently to a great extent omitted. 
It is much to be regretted that no means exist of anything like 
a trustworthy nature for determining even approximately the 
acreage in England and Scotland, which, although under no 
cultivation, is available for pasture of cattle and sheep ; there 
are estimates of the amount of land so available, but in the 
absence of any reliable authority on the matter it seems of little 
use to make such estimates the basis of deduction or inference at 
the present time. No doubt, to get an accurate return of the 
heath and mountain land fed over by sheep or cattle would be 
difficult for such parts of the kingdom as are not yet included 
in the Ordnance Survey, but something like an approximation 
might probably be arrived at. Each occupier should be asked 
to return separately (a) the acreage of enclosed meadow land; 
(b) the actual or estimated acreage of liill-pasture, lieatli, or 
mountain used for feed of stock. 
As has been before remarked no actual comparison can fairly 
be instituted between the Returns for 1866 and 1867 because of 
the difference in the periods of enumeration of the live stock and 
the alteration of the limits of holding ; and as regards the 
acreage a modification of the Schedule in 1867 has further to be 
taken into account. Under the heading of " Permanent Pasture " 
the Returns of 1866 comprised all "Meadow or Grass not 
broken up in rotation (exclusive of Hill Pastures^ ; " this excep- 
tion was only intended to apply to large tracts of mountain land 
with heathy and scanty pasture, but as there were reasons for 
believing that a large acreage of '"' down " and other hilly grass 
land was not returned in 1866 in consequence of too literal an 
interpretation of the words of exception, the Schedule for 1867 
was altered so as to include " down " land, and the heading 
became " Permanent Pasture, Meadow, or Grass, not broken up 
in rotation {exclusive of Heath or Mountain land) " in substitution 
for " exclusive of Hill Pastures." This amendment, in conjunc- 
