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6. Abundance of food for cattle. Although the soil is not 

 favourable to permanent meadows, yet, taking the second crops 

 into account, one-half of the available superficies is devoted to 

 the keeping of live stock. Hence the rise of rents, although the 

 price of corn has hardly increased. 



7. House feeding of the cattle, by which the cows give both 

 more milk and more manure. 



8. Minute weeding. 1 



Many of these agricultural practices are possibly only where 

 there is a large agricultural population ; for which, on the other 

 hand, work is found at the same time by these very practices. 



The following table shows the amount of labour employed in 

 the cultivation of the soil in Belgium : 



< my " Economic rurale de la Helgiquc." The reader will pardoh my refer- 

 ring him to a previous work of mine for particulars which need not be repeated 

 in the writing* <f the best foreign authors errors occur with regard 

 to Helfiium. Thus Mr. Stuart Mill, in his " Principles of .omy, M 



quotes a passage from McCulIoch in which Hainaut and the two Flanders are 

 alluded to as being circumstanced alike whereas, in fact, their conditions are 

 nt in every respect 



uprising the farmers themselves, the farm labourers, and labourers proper. 

 * l'-< -intf the pr t women of the three preceding classes to too 



4 " Holders " includes both freehold- and tenant-farmers. 



