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" We import feeding stuffs for which the farmers paid 

 annually ;(^32,ooo,ooo in the 1909-13 period. 



" These feeding stuffs have considerable manurial 

 value, and we may write off' ^{^6,000,000 as the sum due 

 for manure by land used for raising other saleable 

 products than Hve stock. 



" This would indicate the value of Uve stock and live 

 stock products of the United Kingdom to be j(^ 125,000,000 

 per annum in the period 1909-13. It may be remarked 

 in this connection that the trade in exporting cattle and 

 sheep, though valuable to those engaged in it, was 

 relatively very small in the period under review." 



This is an important point to bear in mind as 

 there has always been a tendency to exaggerate the 

 value of this branch of the industry, which carries 

 also this disadvantage to English agriculture —that 

 the export of our pedigree stock has had the effect of 

 improving the position of our foreign competitors. 



To return to Sir Thomas Middleton : — 



" Let us now turn our attention to examining our 

 returns per acre in money and food which we get from 

 the land of the United Kingdom. When for ' total 

 value ' we substitute ' value per acre ' there is less 

 reason for the complacency with which we have hitherto 

 regarded the results of our live stock farming (and live 

 stock farming is grass-land farming). 



" When a deduction for imported feeding stuffs has 

 been made we find that the receipts from the live stock 

 come out at about 69-5d. per cultivated acre, as against 

 i82-9d. per acre reahzed by wheat and potatoes. 



" Coming to the relative energy value of the different 

 foods produced it may be shown that 100 acres of an 



