Let us now turn to agriculture, which yields the means of subsistence for cattle and for men. In the following table is calculated the decrease or increase for each separate year, as compared with its immediate predecessor. The Cereal Crops include wheat, oats, barley, rye, beans and peas; the Green Crops, potatoes, turnips, mangolds, beet-root, cabbages, carrots, parsnips, vetches, &c.
Table B.
INCREASE OR DECREASE IN THE AREA UNDER CROPS AND GRASS IN ACERAGE.
| Year. | Cereal Crops. | Green Crops. | Grass and Clover. | Flax. | Total Cultivated Land | ||||
| Decrease. | Decrease. | Increase. | Decrease. | Increase. | Decrease. | Increase. | Decrease. | Increase. | |
| Acres. | Acres. | Acres. | Acres. | Acres. | Acres. | Acres. | Acres. | Acres. | |
| 1861 | 15,701 | 36,974 | 47,969 | 19,271 | 81,878 | ||||
| 1862 | 72,784 | 74,785 | 6,623 | 2,055 | 188,841 | ||||
| 1863 | 144,719 | 19,258 | 7,724 | 63,922 | 92,481 | ||||
| 1864 | 122,487 | 2,317 | 47,486 | 87,761 | 10,498 | ||||
| 1865 | 72,450 | 25,241 | 68,970 | 50,159 | 28,218 | ||||
| 1861-65 | 438,041 | 107,984 | 82,834 | 122,850 | 330,860 | ||||
In the year 1865, 127,470 additional acres came under the heading "grass land," chiefly because the area under the heading of "bog and waste unoccupied," decreased by 101,543 acres. If we compare 1865 with 1864, there is a decrease in cereals of 246,667 qrs., of which 48,999 were wheat, 160,605 oats, 29,892 barley, &c.: the decrease in potatoes was 446,398 tons, although the area of their cultivation increased in 1865.
From the movement of population and the agricultural produce of Ireland, we pass to the movement in the purse of its
Thus: Sheep in 1865, 3,688,742, but in 1856, 3,694,294. Pigs in 1865, 1,299,898, but in 1858, 1,409,883.
