CHAPTER XXIV 



A GERMAN VIEW OF ENGLISH 

 AGRICULTURE 



IN the Jahrbuch fur Nationaldkonomie und 

 Statistik (Jena : Gustav Fischer) there is a 

 very clear and comprehensive survey, by Dr. 

 Hermann Levy, of " The Present Position of 

 English Agriculture," which deserves the atten- 

 tion of English as well as of German readers. 



A belief in the ruin of British agriculture, as 

 the ultimate outcome of the fall in the price 

 of wheat, is, Dr. Levy says, widespread in 

 Germany, and it has been especially fostered 

 by the Parliamentary inquiries made into the 

 subject in this country in the middle of the 

 nineties, when the general conditions were 

 avowedly bad. Yet Dr. Levy finds that our 

 agriculture has not only survived, but has lately 

 been showing signs of improvement. It is the 

 causes of this improvement — not sufficiently 

 accounted for by any advance in prices — which 

 the author of the paper seeks to investigate. 



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