296 
Farm Prize Competition , 1913. 
Number of Live Stock in Gloucester , Somerset and Dorset 
in 1912 and 1878. 
Gloucester 
Somerset 
Dorset 
1912 
1878 
Changes 
shown 
1912 
1878 
Changes 
shown 
1912 
1878 
Changes 
shown 
Horses 
Agricultural .... 
Stallions for Service 
Unbroken — 1 year and over 
„ under 1 year . 
Others 1 
No. 
20,622 
138) 
4,208 } 
1,602 j 
4,652 
No. 
19,758 
5,967 
No. 
+ 864 
- 19 
No. 
27,832 
160) 
5,890 ( 
2,482 j 
5,573 
No. 
24,117 
9,950 
No. 
+ 3,715 
- 1,418 
No. 
13,240 
521 
1,583 [ 
551 j 
2,518 
No. 
13,262 
2,958 
No. 
— 22 
- 772 
— 
All Horses 
31,222 
25,725 
+ 5,497 
41,937 
34,067 
+ 7,870 
17,944 
16,220 
+ 1,724 
Cattle : — 
Cows and Heifers— in milk . 
„ „ in calf, ) 
but not in milk . J 
Others— 2 years and over . 
„ 1 year and under 2 
,, under 1 year . 
35,529 1 
9,875 1 
25,670 
34,115 \ 
26,720 j 
35,927 
26,776 
44,533 
+ 9,477 
— 1,106 
+ 16,302 
102,369 1 
19,812 J 
41,426 
41,574 1 
35,365 j 
98,202 
44,657 
58,685 
+ 23,979 
- 3,231 
+ 18,254 
50,857 1 
9,151 j 
10,327 
12,513 ) 
11,811 j 
49,148 
10,726 
17,601 
+ 10,860 
— 339 
+ 6,723 
All Cattle 
131,909 
107,236 
+24,673 
240,546 
201,544 
+ 39.002 
94,659 
77,475 
+ 17184 
Sheep 
Breeding Ewes 
Others— 1 year and over 
„ under 1 year . 
129,418 1 
51,851 j 
145,612 
244,484 
172,369 
-63,215 
-26,757 
165,451 ) 
115,024 J 
155,893 
467,186 
219,428 
—186,711 
— 63,535 
157,983 ) 
41,851 J 
113.842 
318,528 
183,729 
- 118,694 
— 69,887 
All Sheep 
326,881 
416,853 
-89,972 
436,368 
686,614 
—250,246 
313,676 
502,257 
- 188,581 
Pigs :— 
Breeding Sows 
Others 
9,586 
69,334 
— 
— 
11,357 
106,146 
— 
— 
6,451 
50,243 
' — 
— 
All Pigs . 
78,920 
69,331 
+ 9,589 | 
117,503 
106,173 
+ 11,330 
56,694 
45,658 
+ 11,036 
1 Other horses were not included in the returns until 1911. 
the changes in. the various crops, wheat shows by far the 
biggest decline in all three counties, followed in each case by 
bailey, beans and peas in the order given, except in the case 
of Dorset where the decline in the area under peas exceeds 
that under beans. In each county the area under oats has • 
mci eased very appreciably ( + 16,440 acres in Gloucester, and 
+ 12,810 acres in Dorset), having probably replaced the wheat 
crop to a certain extent (and it is noteworthy that this increase 
has been attended with serious outbreaks of eel- worm attacks 
upon the crop) ; there are trifling increases in the amount of 
giown. Root and green crops show in most cases cor- 
responding declines ; there are large reductions in the areas 
devoted to turnips and swedes, and it is a little surprising to 
note that potatoes also show a very considerable decline 
amounting . to as much as 50 per cent, in Gloucester, and 
even moie in Somerset. Mangolds, on the other hand, show 
practically a 50 per cent, increase in the three counties, and 
