PARLIAMENTARY FUBEICATiIONs. 
Board of Agriculture.—A gricultural Returns for Great 
Britain, 1899. |Cd—166., Prace 1s. 4d. 
This annual volume, comprising 118 tables, together with 
an explanatory report, brings together, and in certain 
particulars extends, the information already published by 
instalments, either separately or in this Journal, as to the 
acreage and produce of crops, and the numbers of live stock 
in Great Britain last year. The incidental statistics include 
similar data for Ireland, the [Isle of Man, and the Channel © 
Islands, and summaries for the whole of the United King- 
dom. Various analytical tables and comparative statements 
covering the period since 1871 are given for each division of 
the United Kingdom. Other tables supply detailed infor- 
mation of the trade in live stock with Ireland, the supply of 
meat and produce at the London markets, the prices of corn 
and meat, and the quantities and values of the imports and 
exports of agricultural produce. The volume closes with a 
series of summaries embodying the available statistics of 
agriculture in the colonies and in foreign countries. 
The information as to crops and live stock in Great 
Britain was abstracted from 518,088 schedules, representing 
the holdings of all persons occupying more than one acre 
and 12,550 schedules from owners of stock who either 
occupied no land or whose holdings did not exceed one acre. 
The extent to which estimates have still to be resorted to in 
consequence of the non-return of the schedules by the 
occupiers is now reported to be reduced to 3 per cent. of the 
waole number, 
Of the total area of land and water in Great Britain, which 
is given aS 56,776,000 acres, 32,457,000 acres are accounted 
