The number of live stock per 1,000 acres of cultivated land in the United Kingdom and other countries is: 

  Country.  Cattle.  Sheep.  Pigs.  Total.

United Kingdom        247       619        76       942
Belgium               411        54       240       705
Denmark               264       126       209       599
France                167       207        88       462
Germany               221        90       216       527
Holland               322       116       164       602

It will be observed that in cattle the United Kingdom comes out badly, but is pre-eminent in sheep and has the largest total; though, as cattle require more acreage, Belgium nearly equals its aggregate produce for 1,000 acres.

As regards prices at the two periods 1871-5 and 1906-7, if we take 100 as the price at the former the following are the prices at the latter: 

Beef          71
Mutton        93
Bacon        121
Wheat         56
Butter        97
Cheese       100

Turning once more to the occupation of land, the percentage of land occupied by owners in 1907 in England was 12.4, the rest being occupied by tenants, and the following is a statement of the number of agricultural holdings of various sizes in 1875 and 1907: 

 1875.[733]

50 acres    50 to    100 to   300 to   500 to   Above
and         100      300      500      1,000    1,000
under.      acres.   acres.   acres.   acres.   acres.

  293,469 44,842 58,450 11,245 3,871 463

 1907.

Above 1 and      Above 5 and     Above 50 and       Above
not exceeding    not exceeding    not exceeding         300
5 acres.        50 acres.       300 acres.      acres.

    80,921 165,975 109,927 14,652

FOOTNOTES: 

[710] McCulloch, Commercial Dictionary (1882), p. 449.

[711] See Returns of the Board of Agriculture.

[712] The imports from Russia were that year exceptionally small.

[713] McCulloch, Commercial Dictionary (1852), p. 274.

[714] In 1860 the number of live cattle imported was 104,569; in 1897, 618,321; in 1907, 472,015.

[715] In 1860 the quantity of beef imported was 283,332 cwt.; in 1907, 6,033,736 cwt.

[716] See above.

[717] Supra, p. 38.

[718] Cunningham, Industry and Commerce, i. 176, 192; Hundred Rolls, i. 405, 414.

[719] Burnley, History of Wool, p. 65.

[720] Ibid. p. 70.

[721] Cf. supra, p. 172.

[722] Smith, Memoirs of Wool, i. 222.

[723] See above.

[724] Smith, Memoirs of Wool, ii. 252.

[725] McPherson, Annals of Commerce, iii. 156.

[726] McCulloch, Commercial Dictionary, p. 1431.  For imports see Appendix, p. 354.