CAUSE OF DECAY 



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small. There was no help forthcoming from the 

 nation, because the nation did not realise then, as 

 it is learning to realise now, that the land, as the 



No. 6. Diagram showing the comparative yields 



PER ACRE OF WhEAT, BaRLEY, AND OaTS IN THE 



United Kingdom, Netherlands, Belgium, and 

 Denmark 



J3arley 



Wheat 



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Under our existing: system of farming we have long lost first 

 place in the production of grain per acre. 



