FARM v. FACTORY: THE RURAL EXODUS 53 



either a decimal of a lung or a brain — my German 

 students were always highly qualified men. 



We have long boasted of our superiority as live 

 stock farmers, and from the standpoint of quality 

 justly so, but we have overlooked the elementary 

 fact that for stock-raising and stock-feeding, an acre 

 of tilled land produces double and treble the amount 

 of food that can be produced from an acre of similar 

 land in grass. The truth of such a statement should 

 be so obvious as to need no elaboration. Unfortu- 

 nately, there is the greatest need to labour the point, 

 not only as regards the farmer but with a great 

 number of agricultural experts, in whose educational 

 curricula agricultural economics evidently formed no 

 part. 



Mr. A. D. Hall states that (" Agriculture After the 

 War," page 30), " from all available evidence, we 

 may conclude that crops from land under the plough, 

 when used for feeding cattle, will produce of either 

 milk or meat more than twice as much as the same 

 land will yield under grass." On the farm mentioned 

 in Chapter I, figures have been obtained proving that 

 the produce from the tilled land — that is the Con- 

 tinuous crops when converted into beef and mutton — 

 is slightly more than three times greater than was 

 produced by the land when in grass. 



