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 II. The agricultural area

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But, as stated above, they do not include extensive areas which can only be dealt with by large drainage schemes, and the aggregate of such areas is very considerable. Altogether, it is esti- mated that over a million acres of agricultural land in England and Wales are urgently in need of drainage and another half-million acres are capable of improvement by drainage, and these estimates are exclusive of land where field drainage alone is required. The Land Drainage Act, 1926, which came into operation on the 1st October, 1926, gives to county councils of boroughs and counties considerable powers for the carrying out of small drainage schemes and taking other measures which would permit of much being done towards improving the drainage of the land dealt with by the Crop Reporters’ returns. As regards the areas where large drainage schemes are essential, the Ministry is now enabled to give substantial financial assistance towards compre- hensive schemes promoted by Statutory Drainage Authorities. 4. Agricultural land on holdings not being ordinary farms or small holdings.—Agricultural land is defined by the Agricultural Returns Act as including “land used as grazing, meadow or pasture land.” The returns are consequently not ‘confined to ordinary farm holdings, but include also grazing land of all kinds as well as land used for any agricultural purpose. Many returns, therefore, relate to accommodation fields and grazings let for the summer or longer, others to land attached to residential properties, while others again may refer to parks and even open spaces or recreation grounds which are grazed. With the object of obtaining an indication of the extent of land of this type, the Crop Reporters in 1925 were asked to distinguish such returns as far as they were able to do so from their own knowledge. There are many border-line cases, and the distinction is not of a very precise character. Many of the fields, particularly summer grazings, may be let to farmers and although they are separately returned they may in effect be part of an agricultural holding for that year. The instructions on the schedule contemplate that land taken for summer grazings should be returned with the farm, but this is not done in all cases.* On the other hand. many fields are let to butchers or others for temporary grazing. The result of this enquiry showed some 50,000 separate returns covering about 517,000 acres which are classed as not being farms, small holdings, or nurseries. About 23,000 returns, covering 244,000 acres, appeared to relate to detached fields, while about 27,000 returns covering 272,000 acres, came into the miscellaneous category of land attached to residential holdings, parks, open spaces used for grazing, &e. * These fields, which are very numerous in some counties, constitute one of the perennial difficulties of the returns, owing to their changing hands every year, with the consequent risk that they may be omitted from the returns or, conversely, that they may be returned not only by their temporary occupant but, also by the person by whom thev are let.

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