202 THE MURDER OF AGRICULTURE 

 Compara- it will be Seen from the following table that while we, in 

 Statistics the United Kingdom, can only manage to employ and 



support eight persons to every one hundred acres of 



our cultivated area : 



Germany employs and supports i8 



France employs and supports about .... 26 

 Hungary employs and supports 24 



Here is a table for easy reference : 



P , . . , Persons employed Persons emp'd 

 Country. and supported by &supportedby 



Ag-riculture. every looacres 



United Kingdom 48,000,000 3,900,000 8 



Germany. . . 108,000,000 19,000,000 18 



France . . . 92,000,000 24,000,000 26 



Hungary, . . 54,000,000 13,000,000 24 



If, however, we take Great Britain without Ireland, it 

 will be seen that our case is even worse, for our 32,000,000 

 of " cultivated " area only employs 1,389,000 per- 

 sons, or employs and supports about 2,250,000. This 

 means that only one-fourteenth part of the entire popu- 

 lation is supported by our land, while each 100 acres 

 cannot emplo}'^ and support more than about six persons. 



Now that we have narrowed this matter down to the 

 irreducible minimum of incontrovertible statistics, we 

 are face to face with two highly important facts : 



I . That our country employs fewer people in its agri- 

 culture and supports a smaller head of population on its 

 land than any other country in Europe. (For purposes of 

 comparison only three European States have been taken, 

 although aU of them could show similar results.) 



