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Statistics -Connty of Bute.
AGRICULTURAL RETURNS issued by the Board of Agriculture.
Total Area
Total Acreage under Crops and Grass in Buteshire,
Arable Land,
Permanent Grass ... ... ...
Corn Crops — Wheat
Barley or Bens .. .
Oats
Eye
Beans
Peas
Green Crops— Potatoes
Turnips and Swedes
Mangold .
Cabbage, Kohl-Rabi, and Rape ...
Vetches or Tares
Small Fruit
Clover, Sainfoin, and Grasses under Rotation — ...
Other Crops
Bare Fallow-
Occupied by Tenants,
Occupied by Owners
Horse6 for Agricultural Purposes
Cattle
Sheep
Pigs,
The Fiars Prices, by which the parish ministers' stipends are regulated, were struck
in the Sheriff Court, Rothesay, for crop of the previous year, as follows: —
1906. 1907. 1908.
Barley, per quarter, ... £12 £19 £14 6
Oats ... 19 5| 1 1 0| 19 2£
Beans ... — — 1 14
Oatmeal ... 15 10J 18 4| 16 9|
Farms in Buteshire. — A Government return showing the number of occupiers of
farms (whether owners or tenants) in each county and parish in Scotland,with the
gross rental according to the Valuation Roll, for the year ending Whitsunday,
1906, has been prepared at the instance of the Secretary for Scotland. It is ex-
plained that in this return the following are included: — 1, Occupiers of lands used
for any farming purposes, whether with or without a house. 2, Occupiers of
glebes used for any farming purpose. 3, Occupiers of all lands used for dairy
farming. The following are excluded, viz. : — 1, Occupiers of lands used only for
market or nursery gardens. 2, Parks occupied by butchers and others for merely
temporary grazing, and not for farming. Any occupier of more than one farm
18
_ 1907.
Acres.
139,65*
25,784
16,036
9,748
1
1908.
Acret.
15,061
10,765
30
. . .
4,686
...
94
...
52
5
...
4868
4759
968
975
1,386
24
1,295
121
...
67*
"60
8,218
70
7,424
323
364
|24,486
1.397
24,513
1.313
No. 1907
1,184
9,391
40,878
596
No. 1908
1,208
9,095
44,632
616