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CHAPTER XVII 



Possibilities of the Land — How to Employ the 

 People 



LET us now examine the capabilities of the country 

 for employing our own people, and in order to 

 thoroughly understand what enormous potentialities we 

 have in this direction, we should compare our own coun- 

 try with neighbouring States. 



It has been shown elsewhere in these pages that we 

 have about 48,000,000 acres under cultivation, while 

 about twelve to fifteen million acres more could be added 

 to this cultivated area out of the 20,000,000 which are 

 now returned as rough grazing land and heath. We then 

 have a cultivable area of about 63,500,000 acres. 



The following table will show the cultivated area of 

 three other countries, the number of persons engaged in 

 agriculture, etc. 



* The returns for the United Kingdom are for " Agriculture and 

 Fisheries,"and it is, therefore, difficult to determine the number of peo- 

 ple employed in agriculture alone. The above figures are, however, 

 fairly approximate. 



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