5. The backyard poultry census is nearing completion. Over 600,000 people are keeping poultry on a domestic scale. Crop Acreages and Stocks on Farms 6. In England and Wales 2,200,000 acres of wheat had been sown by December Returns at previous December 4th's were: 1937, 1,664,000; 1938, 1,807,000, and 1939, 1,930,000. Owing to changes in the statistical basis the current increase i even greater than these figures show, and the wheat acreage for the United Kingdom this year (including spring wheat) should reach at least 2,600,000 acres c.