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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 984, 26 November 1910, Page 21

; The preliminary statement, for 1910 of the agricultural returns of Great -Britain show that out of tho total area (excluding water) of 50,214,153 acres, there '. were 32,1-1-1,095 acres under-crops-and-grass,- a decrease of 38,978 acves as cbmoared with ISQ9. Wheat accounted, for*' 1,800,823 acres, barley for. 1,728,090 acres,,oats for 3,020,018 acres, 'turnips and- swedes for ' 1,505,180 acres, permanent grass, for 17,452,405 acres, and, clover 'and ..rotation 'grasses' for"-4,150,417 : acre's.' 'Live stock statistics for 1009 and , 1010 are , given in the following table:— '. ... 1310. •'„ ,1503. Horses 1,5i5,257 . .i; 552,093 Cattle ...-. : 7,037,298" : 7,020.932 Sheep 27,101,140. 27,618,410 Pigs ;....; 2,319,897- , 2,350,587 A remarkablo instance of a '■• human Rorm-carricr was reported at a' recent joint meeting of the AVrexhani Town Coimcilaiid the Wrexham Rural' District Council. Exports' reports were Tead on tho subject of a recent ptomaine outbreak in the district, which was responsiblo for six deaths and 100 cases of illness. It was stated that the origin of the contamination had been discovered-1 by bacteriological proof to' bo a person | employed in the bakehouse where pork pies were mc.de. This person, who is not now engaged there, was found by Hid experts of tho Boyal Institute o{ Public Health to bo a carrier of disease germs. A fine statue of Lord Clive, tho maker of our Indian Empire, will shortly bo erected at the western end of Charles Street, close- to the India Office. The figure, wbicli is being modelled by Mr. John Tweed, stands-ten feet high, and will bo placed on a pedestal, fourteen feet hiuii, when completed, and cast in bronze'. The likeness is taken from n portrait belonging to the Earl of I'owis. Tho history of this statue shows what an artist will do in pursuit of his nrt, for after Ais first effort was finished Mr. Tweed felt discontented with -his work. Ho pulled the statue to pieces, and onco more set to work, modelling from tho nude first, and then forming the uniform afterwards. A replica'in marble of the Clivo etatuc wiirbe sent to Calcutta.