448 
Allotments and Small Holdings. 
that in England nearly 89 per cent, of the whole are mixed 
permanent pasture and arable ; only 8'63 per cent, exclusively 
permanent pasture, and only 2 '41 per cent, exclusively arable. 
In Wales those in mixed permanent pasture and arable are nearly 
95 pet cent, of the whole, those exclusively permanent pasture 
constitute scarcely 4 per cent., and those exclusively arable 
little more than 1 per cent. In Scotland, on the other hand, 
only 55‘34 per cent, of the total number are mixed, 41 ‘32 per 
cent, are exclusively arable, and only 3'34 per cent, exclu- 
sively permanent pasture. In Great Britain as a whole, 84’47 
per cent, of the total number of the larger holdings are mixed 
permanent pasture and arable, 7'30 per cent, exclusively pasture, 
and 8‘23 per cent, exclusively arable. 
Lastly, comparing the agricultural conditions of the holdings 
from 1 to 50 acres with those above 50 acres, as shown iu the 
last four columns of the Table (p. 447), it is seen that in each 
division of the country a very much larger proportion of the 
smaller than of the larger holdings is either exclusively pasture 
or exclusively arable. Indeed, there are very few of the larger 
holdings that are exclusively either the one or the other. On 
the other hand, among the holdings that are mixed permanent 
pasture and arable, in England rather more than half the total 
number (52-31 per cent.) are in the larger holdings, in Wales 
less than half (43'06 per cent.), and in Scotland less than 40 
(39 '34) per cent, are in the larger holdings ; and in Great 
Britain collectively, about an equal number (50-C6 and 49'34 
per cent.) are in the smaller and in the larger holdings respec- 
tively. 
The next Table (IV), p. 449, which compares, not the number 
but the aggregate area, of the smaller and of the larger holdings 
in permanent pasture, or arable land, in the different divisions of 
the country, is in some respects of more interest. 
It has already been shown in Table II, that in England and 
Scotland about 14 per cent., in Wales about 23 per cent., and 
in Great Britain about 15 per cent., of the total agricultural 
area (excluding holdings under 1 acre) are devoted to holdings 
from 1 to 50 acres. Table IV, now under consideration, shows 
the aggregate area, and the proportion of the whole, under 
permanent pasture and arable respectively, in the smaller and in 
the larger holdings. In Great Britain as a whole, of the about 
15 per cent, of the total area which is devoted to the smaller 
holdings, 6L2 per cent, is permanent pasture and 38'8 per cent, 
arable. Of the remaining, about 85 per cent, of the total area 
comprising the larger holdings, scarcely 44 '8 per cent, is per- 
manent pasture, and 55-2 per cent, is arable. In other words. 
