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 IV. Number and distribution of livestock

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y/ state of affairs regarding the distribution of the sheep population from that revealed by the June figures. 1. Pigs.*—War-time slaughterings of pigs reduced the numbers to about 1,700,000, but this substantial reduction was followed by an equally striking recovery, the numbers in 1924 being well over 3,000,000 and the highest ever recorded. On the whole, however, apart from annual fluctuations, there has been no material change, and the average numbers in the decade 1916-25, embracing both the minimum and maximum numbers during the whole period are within 13 per cent. of those of the first decade recorded. The average number in 1916-25 was 2,290,000. The five-year average 1921-25 was 2,658,000, and it remains to be seen whether this higher figure will be maintained in future. The distribution of pigs in different counties is shown in Table 15 and Map XIV. On the whole the pig population is densest in the eastern counties. East Suffolk, Middlesex and the Isle of Wight have more than 250 pigs per 1,000 acres of crops and grass, and six counties—West Suffolk, Cambridge, Isle of Ely, Norfolk, Kent and Cornwall—have between 150 and 250, only West Suffolk of these exceeding 200. The smallest numbers are in Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmorland and Radnor, with 30 or less per 1,000 acres. As compared with 1908 most eastern counties had larger numbers per 1,000 acres in 1925, but the opposite was the case in the west and north of England and in Wales. In most counties there has been no substantial change in the numbers of pigs on farms over the last 50 years, but a few altera- tions of importance may be recorded. The total number of pigs in 1872 was practically the same as in 1925, but in seven counties (Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Kent and Middlesex in the east, Lancashire in the north-west and Cornwall in the south-west) there were between these two years increases of 30 or more pigs per 1,000 acres of crops and grass, while in seven counties (Bed- ford, Berkshire, Buckingham, Oxford, Cumberland, Anglesey and Merioneth) decreases of 30 or more per 1,000 acres were recorded. As the average for the whole country is about 100 pigs per 1,000 acres of crops and grass, a change of as much as 30 represents a substantial alteration in the number of pigs kept. 5. Horses.—As will be seen from Table 12 in the Appendix, which gives the number of horses returned for five-year periods from 1871-75, there have been changes in the descriptions of horses included in the annual returns, which make comparison over any long period somewhat uncertain. The following table gives figures for the various classes of horses in each of the last five vears :(— * Detailed statistics in regard to pigs in England and Wales are given in the Ministry’s Report on the Marketing of Pigs, Economic Series. No. 12-

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