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Table II. — Actual Nv,mber, and Per Cent, in the total Number ; 
aggregate Acreage, and Per Cent, in the total Area ; also average 
Size of Holdings, from 1 to 50 Acres, and above 50 Acres, 
respectively. 
1885. 
Size of holdings 
England 
Wales 
Scotland 
Great 
Britain 
A dual Number of Holdings. 
From 1 to 60 acres 
Above 50 acres . 
No. 
273,660 
120,221 
No. 
40,769 
18,348 
No. 
64,272 1 
2.5,083 ! 
No. 
368,691 
163,652 
Total . 
393,881 
69,107 
79,355 
632,343 
Per cent, in total Number of Holdings. 
From 1 to 50 acres 
Above 60 acres . 
Per cent. 
69 48 
30-52 
Per cent. 
68-96 
31-04 
Per cent. 
68-40 
31-60 
Per cent. 
69-26 
30-74 
Total . 
10000 
100-00 
100-00 
100-00 
Aggregate Acreage of Holdings. 
From 1 to 50 acres 
Above 60 acres . 
Acres 
3,648,559 
21,332,992 
Acres 
666,183 
2,162,834 
Acres 
667,289 
4,180,200 
Acres 
4,871,031 
27,676,026 
Total . 
24,881,661 
2,818,017 
4,847,489 
|32,547,057 
Per cent, in total Area. 
From 1 to 50 acres 
Above 60 acres 
Per cent. 
14-26 
85-74 
Per cent. 
23-26 
76-76 
Per cent. 
13-76 
86-24 
Per cent. 
14-97 
85-03 
Total . 
100-00 
100-00 
100-00 
100-00 
A verage Size of Holdings. 
From 1 to 60 acres 
Above 50 acres . 
• 
Acres 
13 
177i 
Acres 
164 
mf 
Acres 
12i 
166| 
Acres 
134 
1694 
Average of all 
63^ 
47§ 
614 
614 
1 acre to 50 acres is more than twice as great as that of those 
above 50 acres ; indeed, the second division shows that not far 
short of 70 per cent, of the total number of holdings range from 
I to 50 acres. When we come to consider the question of 
aggregate acreage, however, the result is very different. The 
