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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The question is further discussed in Chapter VII (Number and size of holdings), but it is mentioned here as affording an indication of an area of land, some of which is perhaps only partially or incidentally used for agriculture. 5. Rough Grazings.—Another aspect of the same question arises in regard to the very large area of land returned under the heading “ Mountain, Heath, Moor or Down Land and other rough land used for grazing.” This area falls into two groups (1) land returned by the occupier and over which he has sole grazing rights, and (2) land which is grazed in common, that is, land over which a number of persons have grazing rights. As regards this latter group, mainly mountain and hill land, it has only been possible to estimate the area in a very approximate manner.* The persons possessing grazing rights are not usually aware of the actual area involved and the cost of anything of the nature of a survey would be prohibitive. In the case of land returned by the occupier who possesses the sole grazing rights, the area given should be approximately accurate, but where the rough grazings are of the mountain type the occupier’s knowledge of the area is frequently somewhat indefinite. Apart from the purely mountain and hill land, considerable difficulty arises from the fact that it is not always possible to distinguish clearly between rough grazing land and permanent pasture with the result that the same areas are re- turned sometimes in one category and sometimes in the other. There has, however, been a substantial increase in the area of rough grazings returned by occupiers, and this has been particu- larly the case since the war. In a substantial proportion of cases the increase in rough grazings is attributed by the crop reporters either to the deterioration of poor pasture or alternatively to land being now returned as rough grazings which was ploughed up during the war and subsequently allowed to revert to pasture without proper seeding. In other cases it is merely due to the distinction between indifferent pasture and rough grazing land not being precisely defined. Some part of the increase is also due to the fact that the expression rough grazings which was formerly defined merely as mountain and heath land has since 1921 been more fully explained as Mountain, Heath, Moor or Down Land and other rough land used for grazing.” 6. Changes in the Agricultural Area over 50 years.—During the past half-century the area of land used for agricultural purposes as returned each year to the Ministry by occupiers of agricultural holdings has shown some very considerable fluctua- tions. There are several possible causes. The growth of the * The area of rough land grazed in common is not estimated annually. In the year 1921 the area was estimated at 1,020,000 acres, and as a result of further information received in the next four years, this figure was increased to 1,100,000 acres in 1925. Previous to 1921, only about 533.000 acres of common land seem to have been included in the Returns.

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