270 Statistics afecting British Agricultural Interests. 
As compared with 1906 there is an increase of 1,949 acres 
under small fruit and of 2,489 acres under orchards. With 
greater accuracy in the returns both of small fruit and orchai-ds, 
it may be assumed that the total acreage devoted to fruit-growing 
on holdings exceeding one acre is fairly represented by the 
above total of 308,859 acres, of which 82,175 acres carry small 
fruit alone, and 23,492 acres represent small fruit cultivated 
in areas returned as orchards. 
There was a net increase in the total area under Clover and 
Rotation Grasses of 50,215 acres, or slightly over one per cent. 
This increase was wholly in the area returned as “ for hay,” 
which showed an addition of 58,732 acres. This was confined 
to England, both Wales and Scotland recording decreases. 
The area not reserved for hay was increased in both England 
and Scotland, but in Wales this section was less by nearly 
20,000 acres, or over 12 per cent. 
The total area under Permanent Grass in Great Britain is 
now 17,277,884 acres, an increase of 33,150 acres. While there 
was a diminution of 9,364 acres in England, Wales added 34,647 
acres, and Scotland 7,867 acres to their totals. Dealing with 
the two classes “ for hay ” and “ not for hay,” separately, the 
breadth reserved for mowing was extended by nearly 152,000 
acres, to which England contributed over 146,000 acres and 
Wales 6,363 acres, while Scotland showed a slight decrease. 
The most notable additions occurred in Sussex, Wilts, Kent, 
and Essex. Only three English counties reported small increases 
in the area of permanent grass not moAvn, the largest reductions 
in the grazing area being in Essex, Kent, and Sussex. 
Live Stock Returns. 
Turning to the section of the returns dealing with Live 
Stock, the enumeration of June, 1907, displays a material 
increase in the number of sheep, and a still more noteworthy 
augmentation in the number of swine in Great Britain, accom- 
panied, however, by small reductions in the total stock of cattle, 
and a still smaller, but in certain aspects significant, decline 
in the number of horses. The changes which have distinguished 
the distribution of the cultivated surface between arable land 
and permanent grass on the one hand, and those occurring 
annually in the numbers of cattle and sheep on the other, are 
very succinctly shown, in graphic form, by the curves given in 
a diagram appearing in Mr. Rew’s report. On a thirty years’ 
retrospect cattle are now 20 per cent, more in number and the 
area of permanent grass is 26 per cent, greater than in 1876-78 ; 
while sheep show a decline of 7 per cent, compared with that 
period, and arable land one of 17 per cent. The yearly fluctu- 
ations in either class of live stock are wider and more irregular 
