38 ARABLE LAND VERSUS GRASS 



intensive cultivation of the land of the United Kingdom 

 and an increasing employment of men upon the land, 

 both as an insurance against war and as a means of 

 reducing the national indebtedness. The process of 

 readjustment may involve some cost to the State ; but 

 the necessity is as great as that of maintaining an army 

 or a navy, with this difference, that the expenditure is 

 only an investment on which a commercial return will 

 be obtained as soon as the readjustment is complete. 



