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the creation of land banks and credit banks, the 

 improvement of transport, and last, but not least, 

 the creation of a great staff of " agronomes," or 

 agricultural organising instructors, who have 

 perhaps done more than anything else to raise the 

 standard of cultivation on the Continent. 



No. 7. Diagram comparing the Cultivated Areas 

 OF Germany and the United Kingdom 



Each square denotes 100,000 acres. 



Germany, 78,000,000 acres. 

 United Kingdom, 48,000,000 acres. 



All this tended to create an atmosphere of security 

 among foreign farmers which had formerly been 

 wanting. From a state of producing in a more or 

 less haphazard way for a more or less elusive 

 market the whole industry of food production was 

 reconstructed on lines of sound business : organisa- 



