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

Collection:: Economics Books

2 7. Small holdings, fields and parcels of land under 20 acres.— This group forms numerically a very substantial portion of the returns received by the Ministry, although in point of fact the 160,000 separate occupations (excluding fruit and vegetable farms and poultry farms) only account for 1,340,000 acres, or 5 per cent. of the total. It is moreover an exceedingly diverse group because, as already explained, it includes not only small holdings farmed for business, but also accommodation fields and summer grazings, land exceeding 1 acre attached to residential properties and other miscellaneous land separately returned. In order to get some idea of the extent of these holdings, the crop reporters were asked to separate as far as possible these returns, and although this division can obviously only be of a very approximate nature the result is of value as helping to some extent to indicate the true nature of these small holdings. From this, it appeared that out of 59,000 holdings of 1 to 5 acres, excluding fruit, vegetable and poultry farms, some 26,000 were classed as miscellaneous and not purely agricultural holdings. In the same way out of the 100,000 holdings between 5 and 20 acres 19,000 were also put into that category. These 45,000 miscellaneous holdings are mostly pasture and carry less stock than the average holding of the same size, but at the same time it is evident that they are used for agricultural purposes, although they are not agricultural holdings in the proper sense of the word. In this connection, it may be mentioned that about 5,000 holdings scattered about in the larger groups (chiefly 20-50 acres) were also classified by the crop reporters as being only partly or incidentally used for agriculture. In some cases, these included recreation grounds and parks used for grazing, but they were neither sufficient in number nor sufficiently definite in type to make it possible to separate them from the other holdings of the Jame size. Accommodation fields and summer grazings are naturally found largely in the dairying and grazing districts, though they occur pretty regularly throughout the country. Land attached to residential properties occurs to an appreciable extent in the south and south-east of the country. This is very largely due to the residential holdings of Berkshire and Surrey, which have 22 per cent. of their total number of holdings in this category. while Kent, Sussex and the Isle of Wight each have over 10 per cent. Over 20 per cent. of the holdings in Hertford and Middlesex and over 10 per cent. of those in Buckingham, Gloucester, Warwick and Cheshire are in this category. The presence of this type of land makes the average figures of the distribution of crops and live stock on holdings under 20 acres less likely to be typical or characteristic of a purely agricultural holding. Nevertheless they compare fairly well with the larger holdings.

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