Part IV.— THE PRODUCTION OF MEAT 



Section I.— MANURING FOR MEAT 



To make the most of all plant products is to make the most 

 efficient use of agriculture. Experience in all lines of business 

 has shown that there are certain methods common to all com- 

 mercial concerns, and the plan to industrialize agriculture can 

 only mean the adoption in agriculture of the lessons learnt 

 in promoting efficiency in other businesses . Industrialization 

 of agriculture is, however, no new thing ; it has been done 

 before. The large Collieries in County Durham (see p. 209), 

 for example, employ managers and sub-managers for large 

 estates, and mau}^ colonial concerns are also worked in the 

 same way. Much land in the British Isles is unsuited to 

 corn, and hence the industrial improvement of agriculture 

 will largely turn on the improvement and development 

 of manuring for meat and the production of cheese. One 

 strong point in favour of industrialization is that the manager 

 of a large concern can buy and sell on better terms than 

 the manager of a small concern. The chief difficulty of 

 the farm lies in the immense difference between what the 

 consumer pays and what the farmer gets. Sometimes the 

 farmer does not receive one-third of what the consumer 

 pays, and the management of an industrialized farm can 

 check this source of loss (see p. 209) . 



Manuring for Meat. — The change from pioneer types 

 of agriculture to general conditions of mixed farming needs 

 stock feeding as an essential part, since such conditions of 

 general farming combine two entirely distinct objects, 

 namely, stock and crop production. The amount of meat 

 that can be produced from an area in pasture is le^s th^ti that 



