§ MR. ROGERS (Wiltshire, Devizes)To ask the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, what is the total acreage of agricultural land in England and Wales, classified as holdings above 1 acre and not exceeding 5 acres, holdings above 5 acres and not exceeding 50 acres,
| Size of Holding. | Number of Holdings in 1906. | Proportion in each Class of Holding of Arable Land and Permanent Grass as in 1895. | |
| Arable Land. | Permanent Grass. | ||
| Per cent. | Per cent. | ||
| Above 1 and not exceeding 5 acres | 91,196 | 25.4 | 74.6 |
| Above 5 and not exceeding 50 acres | 197,730 | 29.6 | 70.4 |
| Above 50 and not exceeding 300 acres | 127,758 | 44.8 | 55.2 |
| Above 300 acres | 15,122 | 54.2 | 45.8 |
| Total | 431,806 | 45.0 | 55.0 |