140 THE MURDER OF AGRICULTURE 

 enormous area under cultivation of 48,000,000 acres, 

 raise but 3,680,740 of these animals. This works out at 

 26 pigs for every 100 acres under cultivation in Belgium, 

 and only 7 per every 100 acres in the United Kingdom. 



We find also that Belgium has 1,782,000 head of 

 homed beasts, while we have 7,000,000. This works 

 out at 43 head for ever}' 100 acres under cultivation in 

 Belgium, and only 14 per 100 acres in the United 

 Kingdom. 

 Home and Again, if we similarly compare the production and 

 Production industry of every civilised country in the world with that 

 Industry ^^ °^^ °^^ country we shall find much to deplore all 

 along the line. Everywhere else the land is regarded as 

 the chief source of wealth, the chief means of employing 

 and supporting the people, the backbone of the Nation, 

 and its refuge in the time of trouble. Roughly speaking, 

 they rely upon their land as a means of employing and 

 supporting about one-third or more of the entire popula- 

 tion; of producing practically the whole of their food- 

 stuffs ; of preventing an exhaustive outflow of emigra- 

 tion, and last, but not least, of stimulating the demand 

 for locally manufactured goods by maintaining in a 

 general state of prosperity a large agricultural popula- 

 tion, the spending power of which must be enormous. 



With us the reverse of all this is the case; our land 

 industry is neglected, and it supports the minimum head 

 of population in the whole of Europe and produces the 

 minimum head of live stock; it is a source of weakness 

 to the Nation, inasmuch as we are forced to rely on out- 

 side aid for the very bread we eat, and a large proportion 

 of most other foods; it compels exhaustive emigration 



