The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-02-08 00:00:00

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AGRICULTURAL RETURNS.
The agricultural returns for ths Unitwi Kingdom for
1869 have just been received by no. The number of
forms returned to Government to considerably more
than in 1888, owing to the increasing willingneu of
farmers to inake them, as they become satisfied the
enquiry. not inquisitonal,or likely to compromise their
intermits, ani It is satisfactory to learn that the oulti
vatted ere& is increasing by the reclamation of wade
lands. 46,100.163 acres were return,' as under crotw.
bare fallow, and grass, being an increase of 447.608
over 1888. Of the whole acne.,. there were 9 738.037
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under wheat. 2,251,480 barley. 2,782,720 oats, 575,204
398,177 peas, and 64,099 rye.
In Great Britain, of • total of 3.575.067 sores under

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erten Grope, 58.5,211 were returned as ander potatoes ;
2,171 526 turnips and swedes; 272.742 mangolds ;
14,344 wrote; 145,2)1 cabbage, kohl-r..bi and rape, and
365,993 vetches, lucerne, and say other green crop,
ezoept olneer and gram.
The tote! acreage under corn oropt in Great Britain
in 1860 shows an inrr ale on 11168 of 324.505 wee, and
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as on.wipar:d with 1867 the increase hi 1869 is as -.mush

as 473:257 acres. The oultivation of oorn crone, as
shown by the returns, has been extended in each of the
ter,. yeers mooa i 867. the re.tet no doubt of the higher
prices of corn in 1867 and 1868. Tbo acreage uoder
wheat in Greet Britaiu shows en &deems° in 1869 over
1868 of 36,732 acres, but in 1868 there was an increase
of 281,249 acres over 1867. Barley shows an increase
in 1869 egeinst 1868 of 100,000 acre% which Is only a
rec .very of the decrease in 1868 as coompared with
1867. Oats have not varied much in acreage in the
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ia.t thrse yearn, bet in 1869 there is an increase over
1868 to tbe extent of 25.000 scree. Beans had a larger
&cress. in 1869 than in 1868 by 45,000 soros, and it
was in exceed! of the acreage ander that crop in 1867.
Peas were grown upon 100,000 wore acres in 1869 than
in 1868. and although the message under peas was
smaller in 1868 than in 1867, the sunup is 18691 a mush
above that in 1867.

The grail arn,te in Great Britain °coupled a larger
total harem* in 1860 titan in 1868 In 189.069 NM, and
by 76.000 acres than in 1867. Pot.tre wars more

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largely grown than in the two previous years; the
inerease of acreage in 1869 bring 43.000 mum over 1868,
and as much as 91,000 acres over 1887. But the sore.
age under potat ww in Great Britain in still only a little
more thou one.h.lf of the extent of the land devoted to
that crop in Ireland,
As regards turnips arid swedes, the acreage Ins varied
but little in the last three years.
The cultivation of mai.gold. increased largely in
1869; there was an Increase 43.000 acres over 1868, and
over 1847 the smaller though still oonaiderable addition
of 34„000 sore%
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In Or-st Britain 20,923 acres were returned aa under
fie: in 1869 again 4 17.543 acres in 1868. This crop is
chiefly grown in England, the acreage under fl.z ut
Wll.Ol and Scotland being but em.tlL In every county
in England nom- awes of land are returned aa under
daz ; but it is only in the counties of York. Lincoln,
Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridge, Somerset, and Dorset.
that the acr•-age of the won was above or about 1.000
acres in 1869. Inas is not nearly so eatensivelv
rated in Great is in Ireland, where 229,000
acre& worn owler that crop in 1869.
The Tutot;te of hint utter teire fallow in Great
13,1tain in 1869, is Ica by 2.01,000 acres than it was in
1868. The &ensue is greatly owing to more correct
mums of the land which should properly tame tinder
thee denomination. .

There is a large deerease In 1869 u compared with
1868 in the number of acres in gram under rotation,
amounting to 511,000 acres for Great Britain, and it is
even larger in comparison with 1867. A part of this
difference is owing, as in the instai,oe of bare fallow,
to more correct claasi6catioo, which led to the transfer
to "Permanent Pasture" of land, which in previous
return. was entered so "Grass under Rotation e' but
the failure of the slower plant in the dry summer of
1868 loused a large diminution in the acreage of par
under rotation in 1869. . _ .

The acreage under permanent paeture In Great
Britain shows an increase in 11469 of 599.000 acres over
1868, MO of 76,1,000 over 1867. This increarie is more
than sufficient to make up for the decrease in the sine.
age of grass under rotation. In some of the gran
tbs,rierta permanent pasture has been tnore fully returned
is 1869, sod it has also been increased by the reclamse
lion of mountain 42i otlpir wabte lands.

The number of horses in Great Britain. In the poems
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Ann oaf occupiersvoi,iaar. of laad anon the 25th of JUOIL
oua, rm s, 111N111111111.V11 tem., may
have been at the same date an additional number ci
500,000 horses in the metropolis and other towns. The
total number of horses in Great Britain would thus
amount to about 2,000,000.
A. regards the live stock used for food, there was •
decrease in the number returned In Great Britain in
1869. The number of cattle and sheep was reduced
owing to the failure in 1868 of turnips anti other
deseriptiots of autumn and winter food. The number of
pigs•ws• greatly lessened, chiefly in consequence of the
continued dearnese of corn, but in some parts of the
country there have been I saes from disease in the
winter of 1868. Cattle rhow • reduction in Great
Britain of 110.000 in 1869. &scampered with 186$, bit
the number in 1869 is 320,000 above the mamba of
1867. _

The number of sheep in Great Britain is lee by
1,173,000 in 1869 than in 1868, but the number in 1869
lager by 619 000 than it was In 1867. In Ireland I
there were 174,000 fewer sheep in 1869 than in 1868.
The differmion in the relative number of sheep and
cattle in Great Bntain and Ireland is very great. To ,
every head of cattle there are in Great Britain about 51
sheep, and in Ireland 11 sheep. Cattle are, however,
kept in larger numbers in Ireland, in proport on to thii
WWI% than In Great Britain.
The decrease iu the number of raisin Great Britain is
378,000 in 1869, as compared with 1868. There WU
much larger falling off in 1868 as compered with 1667.
The difference between 1869 and 1867 is rather mre
than one million, which is equivalent to • diminu-
tion of 15 per cent.. in the number of pigs in Great
Britain in two years. The number of togs kept in
towns, and by eottagers having less than one quarter
of an acre of land, are not included in the return. for
Great Britain.
There is an increase of 217,000 pigs in Ireland in
1869 as compared with 1868, bat that I. not ilea to
the decrease in 1868 as umpire' with 1867. Hp are
gemerally supposed to be very numerous in Ireland, but
the average number to every 100 acres of occupied
bad differs but little in Ireland from what it is in
Great Britain.
The returns of cattle, sheep, and pigs, taken A/ they
ars in the mouth of June. which is generally considered
to be the twat period of the year for collecting agrictil-
turd returns, show a supply for food short of the actual
ittantity. The number of eider, lambi, *ad pigs, born
end killed for oonsumptien bittern the time of out.
luting the returns from year to year, Is not aacerteined,
and as regards lambs and pigs the number not amounted
for is probably considerable.
. As to Dorset we have the following details :—Ths
population is eatimated at 190.407. Returns were re.
oeived from 4.760 occupiers of lend as againat 4,563 in
1868; and from 36 owners of live stook se against 65 in
1868, showing under this head a remarkable decrees' of
20. The average extent reterned by each occupier was
94 scree as apinst 95 last year. The total area is
832,025 acres. Acreage under all kinds of crops, bare
fallow, and gram. 447,140 as against 435.494 in 1868;
under corn crops, 114 777 ea eviler 112,005;
under green crop., 59 271 as against 58,282 ; under
clover, &oriole, and greases under rotation, 42.397 as
aroma 43.627; perurenent pasture (exclusive of be.th
or mountain land). 222,648 agaiust 212,084; per
Genre of corn coops to total acreage 25.8 as scans{
25.7 : horses, returned by occupier. of and,, 17,3.12;
proportionate numb. r to every 100 acres under re
rope. de.. a 9; treat number of cattle maimed, 66.530
as as.aeost 66,999 it. 1868; being 14.9 per 100 sere*, do.,
isinst 15 4; 548,344 sheep, as against 543,367. being
1225 per 100 urea u against 1248- 34,308 pigs, as
against 36.708. being 7.7, against 8.4. Of the total
acreoge under crops, ko., there were 47,399 under wheat
as furred 48 299 In 1868 ; 39,438 barley as against
37275; '2O 404 n.t. as &groat 20.113 ; 658 rye art
against 441 : 2,987 guns as astsinet 2,774; 3,899' peas
as &greet 3,123. Of the total acreage under green limps,
di, there were 2,9,10 potato, as against 2,873 is 186$;
42,192 turnip. and swedes se against 42,261 ; 4,438
mangold as against 4,344; 187 carrots as against 114;
2.419 cabbage, kohl rabt, and raga, as against 2,113;
7.105 vetelieta, lucerne, do., as against 6,577 • 845 flax
as against 573; no hops as against one acre in 11;88;8,202
hire fellow, or uncropped arable land, as against 8,922;

sheep,

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42,397 *lover, sanfoin, and pares under rotation, as
against 43,627 . • 221,648 permanent testate (exclusive of
heath. Ito.), 721,648 as against 212,084. Of the horses
16,006 arelb•I•10 two veers of age, and 1.336 under. Of
the cattle there are 45,315 cows and heifers in milk or
in-self, as against 41.456 : 9,022 other cattle above two
years, as against 9,717; and 12,173 under two years,
is againsl 12,826. Of an en there are 356,000 on. year
old and over, as against 352,798; end 192.344 ander one
year, as against 190,509. There are 34,308 pigs, as
agatOst 36,708 in 1868.
In the colonise upon the continent of As/trait,
'wording to the latest returns, thole were under corn
crops 1,310,000 acres, of which 901,000 were coder
wheat. South Australia has 550,000 acres under
wheat, sod Victoria 258,000 acres.
The number 01 cattle returned is 1868 la 3.515,000 for
Australia, and about 400,000 for New Zealand end
Tasmania The number of sheep ia retuned at
37,441.000 for 4netrai., 8,418 000 for New Zealand,
and 1,742,000 for TILSIZIaniII. The total, as compared
with the number given in the Colonial Return* f
1867. shows the large MCMINN of 4,000,000 sheep in one
year. The latest return for the Cape., Goof Hope, in
1865, shows that at that date there were in that oniony
114 many as 69:2,000 cattle, pad 9.836,000 shoe, p.

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