EUROPEAN AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. Total area, population, and total and percentage number of statute acres under crops, bare fallow, and grass, and of cattle and sheep in each division of the United Kingdom. Abstract of acreage under crops, bare, fallow and grass. Total of acreage under all kinds of crops, bare, fallow, and grass. Under corn crops.* Under green crops.t Under bare fallow. 18,954,444 32,590,397 1,111,780 4,734,486 3,062,294 19,639,377 23,128,518 56,964,260 28,704,867 9,287,784 3,552,530 964,937 3,694,224 11,148,814 4,935,647 22,048.281 5,798,967 20,322,641 15,549,796 2,173,433 1,482,091 28,060 1,600,495 10,002,058 3,742,932 4,270,027 52,469 180,000 82,902 27,266 12,208 8,357 25,309 9,762 18,687 55,954 55,613 28,717 20,357 3,142 5,253 2,552 3,205 6,205 12,037 517 35,365 17,967 11,999 2,041 2,938 372 886 5,762 6,976 1,214 29,070,932 77,513,585 11,493,666 5,055,020 1,004,278 5,324,119 8,716,279 26,375,993 Under cl ver and artificial and other grasses under rotation. Permanent pasture, meadow or grass not broken up in rotation, (exclusive of hill pastures) Total of estimated ordinary stock of cattle. Total number of sheep, as returned in 1866. COUNTRIES. Population, area, and acreage under crops and grass in the United Kingdom and in verions foreign cornínice. Acreage (in English statute acies) order corn cices. Denmark, proper Wurtemberg Bavaria Holland Belgium.. France, (latest returns) cept Cracow,) Bukowina, the Ty- Italy, including Venitia, (latest returns) Switzerland 1866 5,799,000 20,323,000*15,549,796 1866 23,128,000 56,964,000 28,704,867 29,071.000 77.513,000 2,914,000 3,697,635 2.398.485 4.469,297 67,879 260,370| 115,000 615,000 942,000 877,000 124,000 241,000 61,431 76,359 2,345,273 14,781 1,235,708 1866 4,022,000 107,547,000 10,998,000 1,331,045 7,211,000 4,521.377 24,681,000 68,747,000 43,524,589 †26,980,309 1855 2,534,000 9,945,000 34,070,000 145,310,000 58,407,589 3,662,164 2,755,415 6,573,921 6,978,008 182,927 1,749,691 514,722 3,967,260 26,384,108 $357,493 27,337,802 1435,555 4,962,987 Total acreage under wheat and spelt, barley, oats, rye, beans and peas, mixed grain and buckwheat. *The returns of the acreage under "permanent pastures" in Great Britt in and in Ireland, are not comparable, as hill pastures are excluded in Great Britain and included in Ireland. Rice fields. Beans and peas. Mixed grain. Buckwheat. Other kinds grain. Total under corn crops. COUNTRIES. Date of acreage returns. "lation, area, and acreage under crops and grass in the United Kingdom and in various foreign countries—Continued. Total for United Kingdom, including Isle of Man and Channel Islands Sweden Denmark, proper 1861 69,176 5,635 32,445 107,256 405,064 1,760,403 927,525 Wurtemberg 1865 167,948 60,210 229,587 457,745 253,845 194,906 + 868,629 Bavaria.. 1863 649,735 162,468 206,422 1,018,625| 1,172,133 720,800 3,625,554 Holland.. 1864 265,987 79,61 184,734 530,339 61,256 66,957 3,034,642 Belgium 1856 369,850 81,947 257,327 709,124 159,112 397,787 771,870 France, (latest returns). 2,048,364 890,195 1,379,823 4,318,382 14,091,392|| 6.331,820 33,633,922 Austria,exclusive of Galicia, (except Cracow,) Bukowina, the Tyrol, and the military frontier, (latest returns). Italy, including Venitia, (latest returns) The returns of the acreage under 66 permanent pasture "in Great Britain and in Ireland are not comparable, as hill pastures are excluded in Great Britain and included in Ireland. + Total acreage under green crops, (except potatoes,) bare, &c., and under clover, &c. + Including hill pastures. § Including permanent pastures, &c. NOTE. In addition to the land under the above-mentioned crops, in Bavaria 54,655 acres were under vineyards; in France, 5,411,545 acres were under vineyards, and 2,445,000 acres of cultivated trees; in Italy, 1,870,279 acres were under olive grounds; in Austria, 1,335,371 were under vineyards; and in Switzerland, 68,444 were under vineyards. Total under green crops. Bare, fallow, or uncropped arable land. Clover and artificial and other grasses under rotation. Permanent pastures, meadows, &c. Crops of several Countries in Europe, according to the Bureau of Statistics in Bavaria, 1866. Per acre. Bushels. 2,076,000 20.19 7,740,000 17.04 France 80,428,000 16.94 107,076,000 14.02 24,894,000 15.45 77,520,000 31.50 82,908,000 15.24 165,204,000 23.40 193,320,000. 23,208,000 25.50 117,974,000 21.76 214,806,000 64.46 6,276,000 27.34 9,642,000 30.60 22,356,000 112.52 3,990,000 19.16 8,616,000 16.48 3,600,000 23.30 10,104,000 34.78 16,678,000 19.92 24,624,000 21.98 42,944,000 162.66 61,712,000 203.24 Per acre. Dr. F. B. W. Von Hermann, of the Bavarian Bureau of Statistics, furnishes the following estimates of farm products and domestic animals in the countries named: Countries. Bushels for 1,000 inhabitants, deducting Domestic animals for 1,000 inhabitants. Austria 1,866 2,372 552 1,644 7,332 1,815 4,398 39,766 642 1,152 3,006 1,500 1,176 4,818 3,316 1,002 324 3,372 2,892 462 1,050 2,246 828 24 2,778 4,128 6,582 1,140 10,998 60,522 576 1,098 6,114 968 756 882 834 13,920 63,138 366 876 774 696 2,148 4,088 6,084 1,566 528 606 11,892 1,122 3,498 50.472 480 8,526 3,624 3,734 774 11,514 79,026 630 1,782 3.600 1,200 8,298 2,958 10,936 51,348 486 1,956 2,634 1,188 THE PRODUCTS OF OHIO. There is perhaps no State in the Union which has relatively a less proportion of land not adapted to agricultural purposes than the State of Ohio; and throughout the entire State the soil is of more than ordinary fertility. It is true that the soil is not of uniform fertility, and that there are favored localities where the soil is more fertile than in others; yet throughout the entire State it is of more than medium productiveness. In 1850 the State Board of Agriculture awarded Col. Chas. Whittlesey a premium of $50 for an essay on the "Character, Composition and Improvement of the Soils of Ohio," the greater portion of which is herewith republished: "The climate and the soil of Ohio are so happily constituted, that neither could be materially changed, without placing those who are engaged in cultivation in a worse position than they now occupy. There is here a pleasant medium of temperature, under which the animal frame acquires its best development, and the earth produces its greatest variety of useful vegetation. In warmer, especially in tropical climates, where man may be comfortable without much clothing, where, on account of spontaneous fruits and self-sustaining animals, he procures his food without systematical labor, indolence, improvidence, and the most debasing ignorance, prevail. The soil of Ohio, in its native state, is rich enough for all good purposes, |