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On the Agricultural Statistics of the United Kingdom (Second Paper). By James Caird, Esq.

CONTENTS.

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2. Estimate and Result of Crop, 1867 ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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3. Wheat Crop, 1868 ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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4. Price and Supply ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   63

5. Steady Decline in the Price of Wheat under Free Trade ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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6. Increasing rate of Consumption likely to be fully supplied ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   65

7. General Results ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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8. Increase in Cattle and Sheep ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   68

9. Foreign Dairy Produce not Increasing ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   69

10. Large, compared with Moderate Sized Farms ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

    69

11. Proportions under Bare Fallow ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

    70

12. Distinctive Features of Husbandry ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

    70

13. Feeble Yield of France Explained ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

    71

14. Irish Agriculture ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

    73

15. No Recent Reduction in Small Holdings ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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16. Distress mainly Confined to One-eighth of Land in Hands of Smallest Occupiers ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

    73

17. The English Agricultural Labourer ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

    75

18. Great Change in proportion of the People Dependent on Agriculture ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

    75

19. Home Grown Sugar ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

    76

20. Return of Horses Desirable ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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Having been invited by the Council to continue the subject of the agricultural statistics of the United Kingdom, on which I read a paper in March last year, I propose first to consider the result of the estimates then offered of the previous crop, the probable yield of the last crop (1868), and the great public advantage which followed the early announcement contained in the summary of the returns.

 

Estimates and Result of Crop, 1867.

It will be remembered that I then offered an estimate of the result of the bad wheat crop of 1857, in which, after making deductions for the diminished consumption likely to be caused by high prices, I computed the foreign supply required within the harvest year at 9,600,000 qrs. The actual receipts have been 9,609,006 qrs., between August, 1867, and August, 1868, the date at which the new crop was ready.

But the harvest was a very early one, and the condition of the corn so good that it was available for immediate use. The harvest year, as generally and properly understood, and within which it is very desirable that the statistical tables should be framed, is from