BRITISH AGRICULTURE
— AREA UNDER CROPS. (Rec. August 10, 9.30 p.m.) London, August 10. The Board of Agriculture return for 1920 shows that the farmed area in England and Wales under crops or grass was 26,139,000 acres, a decrease of 868,000 acres. The area under wheat was 1,978,000 acre.s l an increase of 103,000. The area under barley declined 202,000 acres, and that under oats 137,000. The live stock figures were: Horses, 1,384,000, an increase of 18,000; cattle, 5.515,000, a decrease of 31,000; sheep, 13,806,000, an increase of 423,000; pigs, 2,505,000, an increase of 511,000. —Aus.* N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 272, 11 August 1921, Page 5
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