IMieat ctnd Sheep in England in 1893. 
8G9 
.What has become of the 304,100 acres which, in the space of one 
year, have been taken away from the wheat crop in the counties of 
England 1 Doubtless some of this great area has gone to augment 
the extent of “ bare fallow, or uncropped arable land,” which in 
England alone increased by 59,248 acres, as is seen in Table IV. 
A more thorough inquiry, however, as indicated in Table V. (p. 870), 
serves to demonstrate that there was no uniformity in the increase of 
bare fallow, whilst as many as seventeen counties returned a decrease 
under this head, though in no one case did it amount to as much as 
1,000 acres. On the other hand, thirteen counties increased their 
areas of bare fallow by more than 1,000 acres each, and, in the cases 
of Essex, Kent, Lincoln, Cambridge, and Norfolk, by more than 
Table IV . — The Areas of Bare Fallow, or Uncropped Arable Land , 
in the United Kingdom. 
1803 
1892 
1803 compared with 1802 
Increase 
Decrease 
acres 
acres 
acres 
acres 
England . . 
498,427 
439,179 
59,248 
— 
Wales 
8,221 
9,399 
— 
1,178 
England and Wales 
506,648 
448,578 
58.070 
- 
Scotland , . . 
7,910 
8,584 
— 
674 
Great Britain . 
514,558 
457,162 
57,396 
_ 
Ireland 
22,038 
26,936 
4,898 
United Kingdom 
(including Isle of Man 
and Channel Islands) 
530,908 
484,434 
• 
52,474 
— 
5,000 acres each. This year the area of bare fallow in England 
went up to a higher figure than any which has been recorded since 
1886. 
A direction to which one might naturally turn to find some of 
the land lost to wheat is that of “ permanent pasture, or grass not 
broken up in rotation.” Table VI. (p. 871) indicates that whilst there 
is a total increase of 167,055 acres under this head in the United 
Kingdom, England alone contributes 91,407 acres thereto. The 
detailed Table VII. (p. 872) shows, moreover, that only four counties 
diminished their areas of permanent pasture in 1893, whereas the 
counties of Sussex, Essex, Wilts, Cornwall, Northumberland, and 
Gloucester each increased the area by more than 5,000 acres. 
Adding the increase of bare fallow to the increase of permanent 
pasture in England in 1893 we get 150,655 acres, an area wdiich 
falls considerably short of the 304,100 acres which represent the 
decline in England’s wheat area this year. But, looking more closely 
into the figures for permanent pasture, it is seen (p. 883) that the 
official returns are “for hay” and “not for hay” respectively. 
During the recent autumn the writer has had favourable opportu- 
