Land Problems and National Welfare 



The following table gives an interesting 



comparison of the total number of live stock 



per square mile of territory in the respective 



countries. 



Live stock per sq. mile Milk Cows per sq. mile 



Belgium 180 Belgium 76 



Denmark 160 Denmark 71 



Gt. Britain 133 Germany 50 



England and Wales 160 France 36 



Scotland 76 Gt. Britain 30 



Germany 117 



France 95 



In one respect in particular Belgium affords 

 a better comparison for England than does 

 Denmark, in that she is a highly developed 

 manufacturing country, and yet has expanded 

 her agriculture beyond all rivalry. 



These figures are from Mr. Rowntree's splen- 

 did book, " Lessons from Belgium." 



FRANCE 



Cultivated area, 90,000,000 acres. 



Total production of foodstuff, ^^500,000,000. 



Average yield per acre somewhat over £^ gs. 



Note. Much land is cultivated in France 

 which in England would be considered too poor 

 for cultivation. 



In igog the French produced 45,000,000 

 quarters of wheat as against the 6,000,000 odd 

 produced in England. 



The consumption of wheat per head in France 

 is much higher than it is in England. 



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