The anti-monopolist., 1876-09-07

timing from fifty to three hundred acres,
and targe farms exceening the last
named figure; and it appears that seven
ty per cent. to the second, ,and only three
por cent. to the last. As regards the re-
spectiye areas occupied by the three
classes, we may set down in round num-
bers the aggregate OF arabic land ut
twenty-tour millions OF acres for Eng
land, two and three fourths millions for
Wales, and four and half. millions for
Scotland. Now, of these totals the space
covered by small farms represents, fol-
lowing the order of the countries named,
fifteen, twenty-three, and fourteen per
cent. farms OF average size absorb fifty
six, sixty-eight, and fifty eight per cent /;
while only tWenty-nine per cent. in Eng
land, nine in Wales and twenty.three in
Scotland are comprised in the larger
holdings. In short, threc-tourths OF the
area belongs to farms Of three hundred
acres or less; and thus the land under
tillage in Great Britain is quite as min
utely subdivided as the Unlted States.
Some of the details set forth in the re-
port OF the board OF trade respecting the
growth OF cereals and cattle raising in
Great Britain are equally worthy OF at
tention. In the production OF wheat the
| United Kingdom takes rank Immediately
after France, the United States and Rus
sia, yielding in most years about one>
third OF the enormous quantity supplied
in 1873 by the former country. Her
unapproached in Europe or America,
and only PARALLEL by one OF her own
coIonies-New Zealand. Asregards the
cultivation OF potatoes the area devoted
to that purpose in the British Islands
| during tue year Just closed was consid
crably larger than IN the United States
aud the yield per acre was tar greater
From every specie, indeed, OF cereals
and vegetables adapted to Il northern
climate, the elaborate system OF tertlllza
ton and tlliage pracused III the United
Kingdom secures returns altogether dis
proportlonate to the extent OF surface al
otted to the crop. 1t Is, IN lact, de
monstrated by this report that, We're tn
ratio OF inhabitants to the square mil
no greater than in Hungary Or in France
England would be classed among th
purveyo.S, rather than the consumers
OF gram.
The quantity of live stock which Grea
Britain contriyes to rear within her mar
now territory will appear even NOR
surprising to those who identity her wit
manufactures and trade. OF horses, to
instance, continng ourselves to thos
employed in agriculture, we find he
credited in 1879 with more than an
/ other European country except Russi
t and France, and falling short OF the lat
, ter by less than four per cent. Her II
turns Of reat cattle tor the same year az
gregate ten million head, against eleye
: million in France. and twenty three an
1 twenty-seyen assigned respectively
' Russia and the United States. But it
in wool growing that her achievement
, are most signal. Few persons are pr,
:. pared to hear that the boundless pas
lures OF this country support no NOR
sheep than the British Islands, whic
/ now contain nearly thirty tour million
c !. total exceeded only by Russia and b
the combined colonies of Au,trali;
The fact that the British manufacturer
in the face OF such IN enormous hon
production are BUYERS OF wool iii ever
market on the globe, may well lnlpre:
US with the scale OF their oDeratl ons.
We may notice one other poir
+, brought out in this report. lnasmuch
: the United Kingdom. NOTWITHSTANDING
!, its agricultural iecundity, IS constraine
by the density OF It's population to com
pletc its provision OF TODD from iorelg
I sources it is desirable. to know Wheth,
i the fund has OF late years increased
!: diminished In those countries which a
Il accustomed 10 yictual the English ma
;, ket. From collation. OF statistics
! would appear that in all the contiguo
States the number OF neat cattle 5 slIgt
" augmented while that OF sheep h
sensibly declined. We infer that [
I time is not far distant when Great Br
ain. which has We'll nigh learned 10 re
= on our Western States tor breadstutl
ii will draw her supplies OF beef and mutt
r i-om the same quagtet. NEG YORK. 81