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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The cropping and live stock of these farms is shown in the following table :— DisTRIBUTION OF CROPS AND LIVE STOCK ON FruiT AND VEGETABLE FARMS. (Per 100 acres of Orops and Grass.) Potatoes - Vegetable Crops Orchards - ’ Small Fruit 3 Other Crops - Permanent Grass Cattle - Sheep - Pigs - = 3 Fowls - - Acres. 14.22 24-53 22.95% 13-67% 17:03 14-74 No. 4.78 11-95 36-17 267-71 The cropping varies considerably in different counties accord- ing to the proportion of fruit and vegetable farms respectively in the counties. For example, in every 100 acres on this type of holding, Kent has 47 acres devoted to fruit, Worcester 32 acres, Isle of Ely 30 acres, Lincoln (Holland) 22 acres, Essex 12 acres and Bedford little over 1 acre. So far as vegetables are con- cerned, these holdings in the Isle of Ely and Lincoln (Holland) devote more than twice as much land to potatoes as to other vegetables, whereas in Worcester they have about five times as much land under other vegetables as under potatoes, and in Bedford and Essex other vegetables are grown much more extensively than potatoes. As is to be expected, apart from pigs the livestock on this type of holding is very much smaller than on other holdings of about the same size. Quite 80 per cent. of the sheep on this type of holding are in Kent where it is a general practice to run sheep in the grass orchards. Of the holdings of this type, the largest numbers are found in Worcester and Kent, with 2,871 and 2,792 respectively, or 35 and 25 per cent. respectively of the total holdings returned in these counties. An even higher proportion is found in Bedford which with 1,840 fruit or vegetable holdings has 40 per cent. ; Isle of Ely has 1,736 such holdings or 35 per cent.; while other counties with over 1,000 fruit or vegetable holdings are Norfolk, Lincoln (Holland), Hampshire, Gloucester and Somerset, In regard to total acreage, however, Kent ig easily first with 74,770 acres classified as cultivated in fruit or vegetable holdings or nearly 11 per cent. of the total cultivated area in the county. After Kent comes Worcester with 33,253 acres, Bedford with 28,956 acres, Fssex with 25,250 acres, Isle of Ely with 24,325 * Includes 6-14 acres of small fruit in orehards which is included under both small fruit and orchards.

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