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