§ MR. READsaid, he wished to ask the Vice President of the Board of Trade, In what month the Government intend to collect the Statistics of Live Stock and Crops this year; when it is probable those Returns will be complete; and, when they will be published?
§ MR. STEPHEN CAVEsaid, in reply, that forms for making Returns of the acreage under crops and of the number of live stock would be transmitted by post to all occupiers of land in Great Britain previously to the 25th of the present month, upon which day the occupiers were requested by the printed instructions to fill in the forms, and return them as soon as possible to the collecting officers. 1668 The time of completing and publishing the aggregate Returns must greatly depend upon the promptness with which the forms were filled up and returned by the occupiers. It was the wish of the Board of Trade that the information to be furnished by the Returns should be in the hands of the public at the earliest practicable period.