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

Collection:: Economics Books

The number of fowls in 1924 was larger than before the war, and ducks were being kept in larger numbers in 1924 than in 1913, but showed a reduction on 1908. Many fewer geese were returned in 1924 than in 1908, but the number of turkeys was very similar to pre-war. All classes of poultry showed increases in 1926. In Table 16 are shown the numbers of poultry per 1,000 acres of cultivated land in 1924, and as regards fowls the relative importance of different areas can be seen from Map XV. Lanca- shire is far more heavily stocked with fowls than any other county, 4,280 birds per 1,000 acres being returned in 1924, whereas the counties next in order were East Sussex with just under 2,000, Cheshire with 1,850, and Cornwall with 1,770. Between 1,500 and 1,700 fowls per 1,000 acres were returned in Kent, Surrey, Isle of Wight and Yorkshire (West Riding), and between 1,200 and 1,500 in Flint, Derby, Hampshire, East Suffolk, Essex, Stafford and the Isle of Ely. Fowls number less than 800 to the 1,000 acres in Northumberland, Norfolk, Rutland, Northampton, Durham and Lincoln (Kesteven), and in Merioneth, Radnor and Brecon. Throughout the greater part of the country the numbers are between 800 and 1,200. Lancashire is also among the leading counties in the matter of ducks, with 160 per 1,000 acres, but comes after East Suffolk with 171 and Norfolk with 169, while Cornwall, Cheshire and (Glamorgan have 130 or more per 1,000 acres. Geese are kept to a much greater extent in Wales than in England, Glamorgan having 80 and Anglesey, Carnarvon and Brecon from 60 to 70 per 1,000 acres. The highest of the English counties is Hereford with 37, while Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire also have over 30 per 1,000 acres. East Anglia is pre-eminent for the raising of turkeys, East Suffolk having 88 and Norfolk and West Suffolk nearly 70 per 1,000 acres of crops and grass. Carmarthen has 42, and between 30 and 40 per 1,000 acres are found in Essex, Salop, Hereford, Somerset and Devon, and in several counties in Wales. 7. Goats.—Returns of the number of goats in each parish in England and Wales were obtained from the Crop Reporters in January, 1925, and these showed that there was a total of practically 60,000 goats in the country. To some extent the returns were estimated, but they were corroborated in a number of cases by independent estimates made by members of the British Goat Society. Independent estimates were obtained in respect of 1,000 parishes and these agreed very closely with those turnished by the Crop Reporters for the same parishes. On the whole more goats are kept in the east and south- east of England than in other parts of the country. The four counties in which the largest numbers are kept are Essex, Norfolk, Hampshire and Durham, in each of which between 3,000 and 4,000 goats were returned; Kent, Cambridge (including the Isle

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