The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-16 00:00:00

AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.

A very interesting and valuable report has been
issued by the Statistical Department of the Board of Trade,
giving an abstract of the agricultural returns for 1868.
The returns for 1867 are printed with them, in orde;-to
afford a comparison of the results of the two years. 111 r.
Fonblanque informs ns that the required information
has this year been snore rea,lily obtained from the
occupiers Of land, and more care has been taken,
to state the actual acreage and number of live sto;;It,
As the prejudice at first exiating among agricultitists
against official returns threatened to prove a formidable
obstacle in the way of their accuracy and completeness, it
is very satisfactory to find that such prejudiceis dying out,
and that the farmer himself has learned the value of thei
statistics thus collected. At present the system is but
fn
its infancy, as this is only the third year as retards
the average crops, and the second as regards live stock.
The task of tabulating the forms, of grouping them into
classes of crops, of computing the percentage proportion;
and of testing their accuracy, demands both time and
labour, and the public are indebted both to the Board of
Trade and to the Inland Revenue for the manner in which
these departments have discharged their arduous tasks.
The statistics laid before us are full of interest. Thet
total number of acres under all kinds of crop, tarts,
fallow, and grass, in the United Kingdom in 1868
was 45,652,000, being 265,000 in excess of the 'total
in 1867, and 1,307,000 in excess of the total in 1866. The
Increase in 1868 is, however, chiefly due to the increased
acreage of permanent pasture, returned in Great Britain
in 1867 under a more comprehensive heading. Of the
45,652,000 acres returned in 1868, 11,659,000 were under

corn crops, or an increase of 227,000 acres as compared
with 1867 ; 4,865,000 under green crops, or a decrease of
170,000 acres, exclusive of potatoes, in which the acreage
was larger in 1868 than in 1867 by 84,000 acres—.
50,000 in Great Britain, and 34,000 in Ireland.
984,000 acres were under bare fallow ; 5,609 000
under clover and other rotation grasses ; and
22,164,000, or nearly one half the total acreage
returned, were under permanent pasture. In each
division of the kingdom the acreage under wheat
was larger in 1868 than in 1857, the total increase amount.
ing to 30,000 acres. Under barley there is a marked
decrease of 92,000 acres in England ; indeed, the decrease
was 112,000 acres, but it was counteracted by an
increase in the other parts of the kingdom. In oats there
is an increase ; in turnips a decrease, possibly due to the
long drought, which frightened the agriculturists. Th 4
acreage under flax in Great Britain is distinguished for the
first time in last year's returns. There were 15,828 acres
in England, 169 in Wales, and 1,546 in Scotland. In Ire-
land the acreage under flax was 206,446. The percentage
of acreage in the returns are exclusive of hops in Great
Britain and flax in Ireland. Coming to the live stock, we
find a marked increase in the number of cattle and sheep
ever 1867. In Great Britain the increase of cattle
a nounted to 430,(00, but in Ireland there is a decrease of
82,000 totally unaccounted for. The increase in sheep,
again due to Great Britain, amounts to 1.790,000. In pigs
alone there is a decrease amounting to 1,032,000 •
for the United Kingdom, though in this respect
Ireland has the advantage. The high price of
food accounts for the disparagement of this kind
of stock. The returns give some valuable details
of the percentage of corn crops to the total acreage, and
of the proportionate number of live stock to every 100
acres under crop, div:d.ng the whole of England into two
groups, the corn-growing and the grazing counties. In the
grazing counties the proportion of corn crops is as low as
10 per cent., and not higher than 33 per cent., while in
the corn-growing counties the proportion of corn crops
ranges from 33 to 55 per cent. The calculations are carried
still further, and estimate the additional wheat supply re-
quired every year by the increase of population
in Great Britain. In round numbers, 240,000
persons are annually added to the resident popu-
lation in Great Britain, and the additional wheat
supply required for that number, at six bushels a head,
would amount to nearly 180,000 quarters, representing the
produce of wore than 50,000 English acres. Returns of
the crops and live stock in British possessions and foreign
countries are given, having been furnished by the statistical
departments. In these comparative tables the United
Kingdom holds a high place; Russia in Europe occupying
the very first position in regard to live stock. The returns
for the United States are not yet ready, but enough is
given to supply most valuable material for the legislator
and political economist, as well as for the trader and the
agriculturist.

The serious illness is announced of Mr. 'wart, late
M.P. for the Dumfries burghs.

Mr. Layard, the First Commissioner of Works, is
shortly to be married to Miss Guest, daughter of Lady
Charlotte Gaest. Lord Mahon is engaged to be married to
Miss Ponnyfeather, daughter of Lady Emily Pennyfeather.
H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge, Field Marshal
Commanding-in-Chief, held a levde yesterday at the
Horse Guards, which was well attended by officers of various
ranks.

A week or two since an action for libel was tried

in the Court of Queen's Bench, in which Bradlaugh was the
plaintiff and the Razor newspaper tho defendants when the

jury returned n verdict for the plaintiff with ono farthing
damages. Yesterday Mr. Digby Seymour moved for a
new trial on the ground that the damages were insufficient.
Rule granted.

The position of the tunnel under Mont Cenis on
January 1 was as follows: —Out of the total length of 12,220
metres, 9,166 have been executed, being from the south
3,363 and from the north 5,803.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 22.—. The steamer Great
Republic arrived to-day with advices from Hong Kong to
Nov. 16, and Yokohama to the 28cb. She brings 320 pas-
sengers, 1,217 tons of freight, 1,549 packages of silk, and
500 packages of tea for New York. The Great Republic
made the connection with the steamer Golden City, which
sailed for Panama to-day.

Last October three trappers from Illinois for
mink and otter passed Pot t Dodge. Two of them started
from Maple River to go across the prairie to Storm Lake,
when they were overtaken by a snow storm which hid the
road from sight. After wandering for some time they
decided to stop and dig a hole in the snow-drift, in which
they might be sheltered till morning. Next day they
crawled out, and one of them, Charles Butler, insisted on
going towards the lake, while the other determined to find
the nearest house. Before reaching shelter the latter became
deranged through suffering, and having pulled off his
boots to rub his feet, he was unable to get them on again,
and was compelled to walk several miles barefoot amid
snow and the coarse prairie grass stubble. Butler's dog
afterwards came into Sac city, and was so excited that
several citizens who knew him became anxious for his
master, and next morning, following the dog, several men
started for Storm Lake, where, after twelve miles march,
they found the trapper lying stiff and dead in the snow.
Butler has loft a wife in Illinois to mourn his sad fate.

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and its troubles cause more discomfort and bring more
annoying the 'Ont.,without nerves of
gentle, antacid spell
irritating the most delicate orga-
the most susceptible, or
judicious use of these purifying pills, which act as a sure,
pills will bestow some comfort or
relief on every headachy, dyspeptic, and sickly
confer some
as make him a burden to himself and
sufferer, whose tortures orga-
nisation. Holloway's
a bugbear to his friends.
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ROTAL AMPHITHEA [RE AND CIRCUS,
HOLBORN: _

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