The agricultural output of England and Wales 1925

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Identifikator:: 1757028552

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-135495

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: The agricultural output of England and Wales 1925

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stat. Off.

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: XV, 152 Seiten; graph. Darst., Kt.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter V. The output of livestock products

Collection:: Economics Books

309 3. Poulfry and egg production. —Returns as to the number of poultry were collected on the Annual Schedule in 1921 and 1924, and in 1925 the occupiers were asked to supply additional information as to number of birds killed for food, eggs produced, &c. The inquiries in regard to poultry are not complete, because they are necessarily limited to holdings of more than one acre. Whereas large numbers of poultry are kept by cottagers and thers in rural districts who do not come within the scope of bhe returns, and in addition large numbers are also kept in towns and urban districts. There seem to be no means of obtaining particulars of the numbers of poultry kept in these cases other than by a house-to-house inquiry, which is obviously not practicable. Many occupiers omitted to furnish particulars of the number of poultry on their holdings on 4th June, 1925, and an even larger dumber failed to furnish information as to the production of eggs or of the number of birds killed for food or sold alive during the preceding twelve months. Lgg Production.—Occupiers owning rather over 20 per cent. of the fowls on agricultural holdings furnished particulars of egg pro- duction. These should afford a very fair indication of the output, but it may be assumed that poultry farmers and occupiers of ordinary farms who pay particular attention to their poultry would be more likely to be in a position to give returns of egg production than farmers to whom poultry is a minor consideration, and consequently the returns received probably indicate a rather higher output of eggs per bird than is general over the whole country. To llow for the smaller average production of eggs per bird on holdings from which returns were not received the average per bird as shown by the returns has been reduced by 8 per cent. In 1908 the average annual production of eggs per hen in Great Britain was found to be 72, in 1913 the corresponding figure for England and Wales, assuming that there are 11 hens in every 12 adult birds, was 75, whilst this year, after making the allowance referred to above, the average annual production per hen works out in round figures to 100. This increase of nearly 40 per cent. as compared with 1908 in the average number of eggs produced per bird may be accepted as the natural result of the increased attention which has been directed in recent years to poultry keeping. The average number of eggs laid per bird is greatest in Lancashire and Hampshire, the figures for these counties being about 15 per cent. above the average over the whole country. The table on the next page shows the number of fowls on agricultural holdings above 1 acre in extent in England and Wales on 4th June in each of the years 1908, 1913, 1924 and 1925, and the estimated production of eggs in each of those years. * Statistics in regard to poultry and eggs will be found in the Ministry’s reports on ** Ege Marketing ”* and * The Marketing of Poultry,” Economic Series Nos. 10 and 11.

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