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 VII. Number and size of holdings

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far as area alone is concerned, fall into the small holdings group of 20 acres and under. It will be seen that the farms and holdings of 20 acres and over, excluding any fruit, vegetable or poultry holdings of this size, cover over 93 per cent. of the total area returned to the Ministry. They thus account for the bulk of the agricultural area. The small holdings, fields and parcels of land under 20 acres are very numerous, but owing to their mixed character they do not easily lend themselves to classification under any particular type. In fact, in this group we have, as already explained, not only the small holding proper, that is to say the agricultural holding which is carried on for business and is only differentiated from other agricultural holdings by its smaller size, but also a large number of separate fields, paddocks, &ec., used for agricultural purposes but not in any proper sense a ‘‘ holding,” and also a number of semi-residential and other properties which are cultivated and come within the scope of the returns and yet are not altogether comparable with the agricultural holding farmed for business. Leaving these small holdings out of account, there are 216,700 holdings exceeding 20 acres in extent and covering a total area (excluding rough grazings) of over 24,000,000 acres. Of this group, 104,000, or nearly one-half, consist of holdings which are mainly pasture land. These cover over 9,000,000 acres out of the 24,000,000 acres. They thus have an average area of about 90 acres each. The importance of this group both in point of number and of total area bears witness to the extent to which pasture prevails in the farming of the country. The converse to this group is found in the holdings which are mainly arable, and these number 39,600, or only 18 per cent. of the holdings over 20 acres, and account for about 5,500,000 acres of land, with an average area of about 140 acres each. Between these two groups naturally come the mixed farms which have less than 70 per cent. of their area either in arable or in pasture, that is to say, farms where the area under arable and the area under permanent pasture are more nearly equal. These number nearly 73,000, or about 34 per cent. of the total, and cover an area of 9,500,000 acres or much the same ag the mainly pasture farms. They have an average area of 130 seres. The difference between some of the farms in this group and some of the farms in the other two groups is, of course, slight. Some of the “mixed farmg *’ have nearly 70 per cent. arable or 70 per cent. pasture, and thus nearly fall into one of these groups, but on the whole it is thought that the divisions give a broad indication of the prevalence of arable farming on the one hand and of pasture on the other

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