AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION IN BELGIUM. 447 



Increase in agricuHuial production in Belgium, 1880-1910 — Continued. 



1 This reduction is balanced by the increase from 12 per cent to 16J per cent in sugar content. 



2 This reduction is balanced by the increase from 10 per cent to 16 per cent in sugar content. 



During the past quarter of a century the average production per 

 acre for the following cereals has increased, for the whole of Bel- 

 gium, as follows: 



In West Flanders practically no commercial fertilizers and no concentrated commercial foodstuffs were 

 used in 1885, while in 1907 there were used 144,219 tons of commercial fertilizers and 220,678 tons of commercial 

 foodstuffs. During the same period the value of live stock in West Flanders increased $12,742,400. 



