Der gesetzgeberische Ausbau des Deutschen Reiches und seine Wirtschaftlichkeitspolitik

The agricultural output of England and Wales 1925

Bibliographic data

Monograph

Identifikator:: 861748913

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-91908

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Huber, Franz http://d-nb.info/gnd/117535699

Title:: Der gesetzgeberische Ausbau des Deutschen Reiches und seine Wirtschaftlichkeitspolitik

Place of publication:: Stuttgart

Publisher:: Krais

Year of publication:: 1906

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (79 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

Usage license:: Get license information via the feedback formular.

while some 420,000 acres were identified outside urban areas as not included in the Returns, much of this was stated to be entirely useless for agricultural purposes and only about 75,000 acres were considered to have even a possible agricultural value. Whether the land included in the Returns is as highly cultivated or as fully stocked as existing economic conditions admit is a matter in regard to which no conclusions can be drawn from the statistics. Some of it is admittedly in need of drainage, and, as already mentioned, there is an area of no less than 5 million acres classed as mountain, heath, moor, down and other rough land used for grazing. Included in this latter area there is evidently some land which in the past under more favourable conditions has been either arable land or better pasture. The changes in the distribution of the agricultural area are discussed in the Report, but the most important change is the decline in arable cultivation. Apart from the war years, this has been practically a continuous feature of the Agricultural Returns for the last 50 years, the area of 14,766,000 acres in 1871-75 having fallen by 1921-25 to 11,144,000 acres or by about one- fourth. A very large part of this decline took place in the first 35 years, the area in 1906-10 being about 11,444,000 acres. Under the stimulus of the war, there was a substantial increase from 10,998,000 acres in 1914 to 12,399,000 acres in 1918. This was followed after the war by a return to the condition previously existing, so that in 1924 the area was 10,929,000 acres or practically the same as in 1914. In the following year, 1925, there was a further fall to 10,682,000 acres, which was the smallest area of arable land ever recorded in England and Wales and 724,000 acres less than in 1908. The loss of arable land over the whole period of 17 years since the last census was therefore nearly 6} per cent. The greater part of the loss has been due to the decline in corn growing. This loss in the arable area since 1908 has been accompanied by a loss of permanent grass, the total area under crops and permanent grass in England and Wales having fallen from 27,348,000 acres in 1908 to 25,755,000 acres in 1925. This difference is made up of the 724,000 acres of arable already referred to and 869,000 acres of permanent grass. A substantial decrease in the area of permanent grass was shown by the Returns in 1918 as a result of the increase in the arable area which took place in the same year. In subsequent years, how- ever, the arable area rapidly declined while the area of permanent grass though gradually increasing did not by any means return to its former level. There seems no doubt that the bulk of the land thus transferred from these two categories now appears as rough grazings, though naturally some part must be accounted for by the encroachment of buildings both in urban and rural ATCA.

Access restriction

Copyright

fullscreen: The agricultural output of England and Wales 1925

Monograph

Table of contents

Download

Monograph

Chapter

This page

Image fragment

Citation links

Citation recommendation