364 Statistics affecting British Agricultural Interests. 
the United Kingdom there are only a few hundred acres of 
them. 
Potatoes showed an increase in Great Britain of 13,185 
acres, made up of increases of 9,192 acres in England, and 
4,804 acres in Scotland, against which must be set a decrease 
of 811 acres in Wales. The total acreage in 1908 was 562,105 
acres as against 548,920 acres in 1907. Turnips and Swedes 
once again showed a decline, in this case of 12,081 acres as 
against 27,942 acres in the previous year, when the lowest 
acreage on record was reached. This has unfortunately now 
been still further diminished, and stood last year at 1,550,900. 
Mangolds, which afforded some satisfaction by an increase 
of about 18,000 acres in 1907, had in 1908 decreased by 
22,281 acres as compared with the previous year. There were 
427,770 acres of them. 
The area of Lucerne once again increased, but by a smaller 
amount than the previous year, when an increase of 8,000 
acres was recorded. Last year it was 1,361 acres, bringing the 
total in Great Britain up to 65,156 acres. 
The Small Fruit area, which was 84,870 acres, showed an 
increase of 2,705 acres, of which 2,378 were in England, and 
340 in Scotland, while the area in Wales was practically 
unchanged. 
The acreage of Orchards was practically unchanged, being 
in 1908, 250,288 acres as against 250,176 acres in 1907. 
There was a decrease of the total area under Clover and 
Rotation Grasses by 69,374 acres, which more than counter- 
balances the increase of the previous year, which was 58,732. 
In England there was a decrease of 55,214 acres, in Wales 
of 8,608, and in Scotland of 5,552 acres. The whole area last 
year in Great Britain was 4,421,587 acres. 
The total land under Permanent Grass in Great Britain last 
year reached an area of 17,415,869 acres, being an increase of 
137,985 acres over that of 1907. The greater portion of this 
increase, namely, 93,062 acres, was in England. 
Considering now the two classes of permanent grass, “ For 
Hay” and “Not for Hay,” separately, we find that the first 
class increased by 13,228 acres, or only 0’3 per cent., while £he 
latter took up 124,757 acres, or 1 per cent, of its previous area. 
Eighteen counties showed an increase of acreage of “ Grass for 
Hay,” the ones showing the largest being Kent, Lancaster, and 
Sussex. 
Twenty-eight counties showed an increase in grass “ Not 
for Hay,” those contributing the largest amount being 
Buckingham, Chester, Devon, Gloucester, Leicester, Lincoln, 
Northampton, Salop, and Warwick, with increases of over 
5,000 acres each. 
