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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
[November, 
15i-iti*h Farmin", — Interesting 
Summary.—American farmers are so largely en¬ 
gaged in supplying food to the condensed population of 
Great Britain (including England, Scotland, Ireland and 
Wales), that the following condensed summary will be 
very interesting, and also valuable for reference. The 
figures, brought up to the middle of 1883, have been 
carefully compiled by the Government, and are now 
issued in official form. (In the comparisons with our 
own country, we are necessarily confined to the last 
Census. If there were official figures for the present 
year, the United States would show much larger in 
comparison.) 
Gt. Britain. Wheat. 
1881. —Acres... 2,805,809 
1882. —Acres... 3,000,930 
1883—Acres... 2,613,147 
Average acres 2,806,639 
U.S.Cen 
Barley. 
2,442,334 
2,255.269 
2,291,984 
2,329,862 
Oats. Potatoes. Hops. 
2,901,275 
2,833,865 
2,975,377 
2,903,506 
579,334 64,943 
541,064 65,619 
543.455 68,027 
554,618 65,863 
bus, im ( ac ’ s33,430 > 052 1,997,717 16,144,593 
Wheat. 
Gt. Br., per acre..28 Bushels. 
U. S., per acre..12 97-100 “ 
Barley. Oats. 
34 6-10 Bushels. 40 Bushels. 
22 8-100 “ 25 26-100 “ 
Total Crop.-Gt. Br. 78,585,812 80,613,225 116,140,240 Bushels. 
T Crop U ‘ S ‘ CenSUS [ 459,419,505 44,113,495 407,858,999 Bushels. 
Note (1) that Great Britain has more acres of oats 
than of wheat; (2) that the acres of wheat exceed bar¬ 
ley by only one-fifth; (3) that the total barley crop ex¬ 
ceeds the total wheat product (more beer than bread!); 
(4) that while we have thirteen times as many acres in 
wheat, Great Britain gets an average of twemy-eight 
bushels per acre to our less than thirteen bushels 1 
Lambs. Sheep dkLambs. Swine. 
8,437,902 24,581,053 2,048.890 
8,745,884 24,319,768 2,510,402 
9,121,604 25,070,271 2,617,744 
8,768,463 
Sheep. 
16,143,151 
15,573,884 
15,948.667 
15,888,567 
24,657,031 
35,191 656 
2,392,079 
47,683,951 
Gt.Br. Cattle. 
1881.. . 5,911,642 
1882.. . 5,807,491 
1883.. . 5,962,778 
Av’ge 5,893,968 
Cn’s \ “5,926,153 
It is noteworthy that while we have over six times as 
many neat cattle, and just twenty times as many swine, 
Great Britain has on her limited territory two-thirds as 
many sheep as we have—a fact that in part explains the 
much greater yield per acre of wheat, etc., as sheep are 
decidedly helpful in increasing the fertility of the soil. 
No wonder Mr. Lawes recommended these animals to 
his friend to bring up his barren estate. It will be 
seen from the above figures that British farmers have 
twenty-eight per cent more swine in 1883 than in 1881. 
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