The decrease in wheat-raising has tended to increase the area of permanent pasture land, which amounted in 1900 to 13,391,877 acres, or over 3,000.000 acres in excess of the acreage in the early seventies, and over 2,000,000 in excess of the arable land in 1900. Corresponding to this has been the growth of the stock-raising in dustry. particularly of cattle. These numbered, in 1900, 4.848,638 head, or somewhat in excess of the average for the decade ending with that year. and over 800,000 in excess of the average for time decade IST1-SO. The towns are so nu merous that milk is the chief dairy product, no other country depending so largely upon imports of butter. In the decade 1891-1900 the farm horses averaged about 1.175,000 head, as against an average of a little over 1.000,000 for the decade IS71-SO. The number of sheep, however, has decreased from an average of 18.717,511 for the period 1871-75, to the minimum of 15,509,995 in 1894, the number in subsequent years having remained somewhat above this figure. The north and west, or the elevated and more humid 'mordents of England, are largely given over to grazing, while in the eastern portion the growing of cereals and other crops is more common, though stoek-raising is also prominent through out, this region. The three coast counties, Lin
colnshire, Yorkshire. and Essex, lead in the production of wheat., the average yield in these counties sometimes approaching the remarkable figure of 40 bushels per acre. No country sur passes England in the superior quality of her domestic animals, and no other has contributed so many varieties of the standard breeds. The name of the county or region in which the breech originated is generally used to designate them, such as the Devonshire, Lancashire. or Durham Southdown sheep, and Berkshire bogs. There are ten or twelve native breeds of cattle, the most important being the Shorthorn, which, originating in the Tees distriet of Durham over a ago, has spread all over the country and is widely distributed abroad. Hereford and Sussex cattle are famous for beef, and Shorthorn and Devon both for beef and milk.