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STATISTICS  AFFECTING  BRITISH  • 
AGRICULTURAL  INTERESTS. 
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As  in  previous  years,  the  information  compiled  in  the  tables 
printed  on  pp.  400-405  is  taken  from  the  official  publications 
of  the  Board  of  Agriculture  and  Fisheries,  and  the  other 
Government  Departments  as  follows  : — Agricultural  Statistics 
for  1909,  Vol.  XLIV.,  Part  I.  ; Agricultural  Statistics  for  1908, 
Vol.  XLIII.,  Parts  I.,  II.,  and  III.  ; the  Preliminary  Statements 
as  to  Produce  of  Crops,  Acreage  and  Yield  per  Acre  for  1909  ; 
the  Annual  Statements  of  the  Board  of  Trade,  and  the  Trade 
and  Navigation  Accounts  for  December,  1909.  The  data  have 
been  brought  up  to  date  by  the  inclusion  of  the  figures  for  1909, 
some  of  the  tables  having  been  supplied  in  manuscript  by  the 
Board  of  Agriculture  and  Fisheries.  The  Department  of  Agri- 
culture and  Technical  Instruction  for  Ireland  also  kindly 
supplied  tables  in  manuscript  such  as  were  printed  in  previous 
year’s  Journals,  but  which,  owing  to  the  reduction  in  the  space 
allotted  in  the  Journal  this  year,  it  has  been  found  impossible 
to  utilise  in  full.  Their  offices  are  at  4,  Upper  Merrion  j 
Street,  Dublin,  and  they  publish  yearly  a Report  of  the  Pro-  j 
ceedings  under  the  Diseases  of  Animals  Acts  (price  ^\d.) 
which  gives  the  imports  of  animals  between  Great  Britain  and  I 
Ireland  ; Agricultural  Statistics,  Ireland  (price  9J.),  and  the  ! 
Return  of  Prices  of  Crops,  Live  Stock,  and  other  Irish  Agri- 
cultural Produce,  all  of  which  give  useful  statistical  infor- 
mation. Those  who  may  wish  for  information  such  as  was 
supplied  in  previous  volumes  and  which  is  omitted  in  the 
present  one,  are  referred  to  the  publications  mentioned  above. 
Acreage  of  Crops. 
In  the  first  of  the  general  tables  “ Acreage  under  Crops 
and  Grass  and  number  of  Live  Stock  on  June  4,  1909  and 
1908,”  will  be  found  a summary  for  the  United  Kingdom. 
In  this  is  included  the  data  for  Ireland  and  the  Channel 
Islands,  for  the  details  of  which  the  statistics  themselves 
must  be  consulted.  The  whole  area  dealt  with  is  nearly 
47,000,000  acres  of  crops  and  grass  in  the  United  Kingdom, 
the  total  having  decreased  by  116,000  acres  since  the  year 
1908. 
We  may  note  that  in  the  past  year,  the  acreage  under  crops 
and  grass  in  Great  Britain,  which  was  nearly  32,200,000,  was 
