Land Problems and National Welfare 



English with Canadian corn, and have obtained 

 a wheat which has the Jiigh starch percentage of 

 the Canadian wheat while retaining the heavy 

 yielding qualities of the English. 



It is time now to deal with the other half of 

 the fallacy that we are endeavouring to combat: 

 that "feeding" stock pays. 



We will admit that the pedigree stock of the 

 star farmer pays him well ; that the grazier 

 possessing good grass land generally makes a 

 fair turnover on stores or on half finished beasts 

 that he buys at a reasonable price ; we grant 

 even that the average mixed land farmer may 

 make a small profit on any yearling beasts 

 that he sells for over ^f lo each. But on this 

 class of farm — and it constitutes a large pro- 

 portion of the land of England — there is a 

 heavy loss on every three-year-old beast sold. 

 The ordinary method in vogue is that one cow 

 shall spend her whole time in rearing one calf. 

 That cow in one way or another, and counting 

 the percentage of cows that miscalve, costs at 

 least £g per annum to feed and maintain. This 

 being the case, how can that wretched calf show 

 a profit at any period of its career ? I hear the 

 practical man who has not studied accounts 

 say that the manurial value must not be lost 

 sight of. Well, there would be still more manure 

 if each cow were made to bring up from 4 to 

 6 calves per annum, and there would be far more 



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