Summaries of annual returns from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and its predecessors on livestock and acreage in England and Wales given by proprietors on a voluntary basis. The summaries in this series begin in 1866, but those for 1868, 1871 and 1872 have not survived. Figures for the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and the Isles of Scilly have been included, where available. The original returns have been destroyed.