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half of a country can be used for food production. It 

 may be safely said that in the cases of the populous 



Table No. V 



Table showing how much of the land of the United 

 Kingdom is cultivated and how much remains unculti- 

 vated. It may safely be assumed that the heath land, 

 the commons, the woods, the deer forests, and the bogs, 

 amounting in all to twenty-six million acres, are in- 

 capable of profitable cultivation. 



Total Area ..... 

 Of which there is used 

 for the manufacture of 

 food : 



As arable land (for 



crops) . . . 20,000,000 



As permanent grass 



(for pasture) . . 27,000,000 



Leaving a balance of 

 30,000,000 acres useless 

 for the manufacture of 

 food and classified as 

 follows : 



Mountain and heath 

 land (some of this 

 affords rough grazing) 16,000,000 

 Commons . . 3,000,000 



Woods . . . 3,000,000 



Deer forests . , 3,000,000 



Bog . . . 1,000,000 



Area of Boroughs and 



Urban Authorities 4,000,000 



Acres. 

 77.000,000 



-47,000,000 



-30,000,000 



77,000,000 77,000,000 



countries of Europe and Asia all the area of their 

 territories which can be devoted to the maintenance 

 of human life is employed for that purpose, and that 

 therefore the extent of cultivation shown in the table 



