ENGLISH AGRICULTURE
AN INTERESTING RETURN.
(TOTTII PRISI AiaOCIATtON.—COHMSHT.)
(AUSTRALIAN - RBW ZKAUNS JAIL! ASSOCIATION.) LONDON. 10th August.
The Board of Agriculture return for 1920 shows that the fanned area in England and Wales under crops or grass was 26,139,000 acres, a decrease of 368,000 acres. The area under wheat was 1,978,000 acres, an increase of 103,000. The area under barley declined 202,000 acros, and that under oats 137,000. The live stock figures were: Horses, 1,384,000, an increase of 18,000; cattle, 5.515,000, a decrease of 31,000; sheep, 13,806,000, an increase of 423,000; pigs, 2,505,000, an increase of 511,000.
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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 36, 11 August 1921, Page 7
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