CROPS THAT HELPED TO SAVE ENGLAND.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 16 January 1919, Page 3

CROPS THAT HELPED TO SAVE ENGLAND.

"Crops that helped to save England," is the heading given by " Current History " to a news item which states that information collected on June 4th last shows that the total arable area in England and Wales in 1918 was 12,398,730 acres, representing an increase of 1,152,620 acres, or 10] per cent over the arable area of 1917. This is the largest area returned for the last twenty years. The area under permanent grass is 14,588,900 acres, a decrease of 1,246,470 aores on the year. The total area under crops and grass thus amounts to 26,987,630 acres, as compared with 27,081,080 acres, in 1917. The greater part of the grass land ploughed up has been placed under wheat and oats. The increase in the area under wheat is. f>38,260, or 33 per cent, and the total under this crop. in 1918 amounts to 2,556,740 acres, which is "the largest since 1884, Potatoes increased 25 per gent over 1917 5 the number of horses increase^ 3000; cows and heifers in-« •reased 113,000 ; beef cattle were 37.Q0Q U*i than in 1917,