Land Problems and National Welfare 



amount of land laid down to grass, a process 

 which in many cases is synonymous with the 

 land in question going out of cultivation. 

 A very good grass land farmer told me quite 

 recently that whenever he took a farm he 

 counted on doubling or even trebling the 

 amount of stock it had carried under the pre- 

 ceding tenant. If this process of doubling the 

 amount of stock could be carried out on a large 

 scale the annual ;^45,ooo,ooo worth of imported 

 foreign meat could soon be reduced to a smaller 

 figure. 



Before leaving this subject, and as a matter 

 of interest rather than for the sake of com- 

 parison, I will append tables showing the total 

 amount of home-grown foodstuff in several of 

 the leading agricultural countries. 



DENMARK 



Area of cultivated land, about 6,973,000 acres. 



Value of home-grown foodstuff, ^^40,000,000. 



This gives an average yield of just under ^^6 

 per acre. 



Note. During the past 10 years the amount 

 of home-grown foodstuff has increased by 30%. 



Average yield of wheat per acre is 40 bushels. 



The average land in Denmark is of much 

 poorer quality than that in England, and the 

 climate is more severe. 



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