Exeter and Its Region
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... cent of the full - time dairy farms . In the livestock rearing and fattening group and in the mixed farming group they occur on approximately 95 per cent of the farms , the average flock sizes being 176 and 143 ewes respectively . Fat ...
... cent deep litter and on only seven per cent batteries but in terms of numbers of poultry 48 per cent were kept under the deep litter system , 37 per cent in batteries and only 14 per cent on free range . On the specialist poultry farms 70 ...
... cent on the pre - war figure . The total fell by 18 per cent between 1950 and 1955 , but by 1960 it had risen to a figure si per cent higher than in 1955. In 1965 , 1,774 offences were recorded , s2 per cent higher than in 1960 , and an ...