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less than 12 on the arable farms, while the number of sheep is 
also greater. Many farms of this type have, however, some rough 
grazing land attached to them which is not taken into account in 
the above figures. 
In this group there are 104,200 holdings, nearly one-half of 
which are in holdings from 20 to 50 acres. 
NUMBER AND ACREAGE OF HOLDINGS ABOVE 20 ACRES 
CONSISTING MAINLY OF PASTURE LAND. 
Size of Holdings, 
20- 50 acres 
50-100 ,, 
100-150 ,, 
150-300 ,, 
300-500 ,, 
Over 500 .. 
Number. 
16,821 
28,935 
12,972 
12,419 
2,514 
612 
3 
x 
$ 
Acreage. 
Acres. 
1,654,500 
2,085,900 
1,589,800 
2,559,800 
924,800 
430.900 
Average size 
of Holding. 
Acres. 
33 
72 
123 
206 
368 
704 
The distribution by counties is shown in Table 24 and in 
Map XVIII, and it will be seen that these pasture farms, which 
account for about 38 per cent. of the total cultivated area, are 
much more widely spread than the purely arable farms, but the 
area of land occupied by this class of farm is practically negligible 
in some eastern counties. Cambridge, Isle of Ely, Suffolk (East 
and West), and Lincoln (Holland) have less than 3 per cent. of 
their area on pasture farms, and other parts of Lincoln, Norfolk 
and Yorkshire (East Riding) have also very few grass farms. 
Monmouth, Carmarthen, Brecon, Merioneth, Westmorland and 
Middlesex, with over 75 per cent. of their cultivated land on 
grass farms, have the largest proportions. and Wales as a whole 
averages 65 per cent. 
6. Mixed farms.—It might have been expected that the 
number of mixed farms in which arable and pasture are more or 
less evenly balanced would have exceeded both the number of 
mainly arable and the number of mainly pasture farms. This is 
not, however, the case, though the area occupied by the mixed 
farm group is greater than that of either of the other two groups. 
The area under arable and permanent pasture in all sizes of 
this group 1s about equal, and about one-fourth of the total area 
1s In corn Crops and one-eighth in rotation grass. The number of 
cattle and pigs carried approximates more closely to the mainly 
pasture holding than to the mainly arable holding, but with sheep 
the opposite is the case, and, as in the other cases, the stock carried 
is, except for sheep, proportionately higher on the small sized 
farms than on the larger holdings.