ARABLE V. GRASS 



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properly managed it can carry more stock and more 

 cows than grass land. Professor T. H. Middleton, 

 of the Board of Agriculture, speaking at the last 

 meeting of the British Association, said : " A well- 



No. 17. The Difference in the Rates 

 OF Food Production 



Arable Land 



Poor 

 Pasture 



3 



Rich 

 Pasture 



If we take the quantity of human food supplied 

 by Poor Pasture to represent one unit, then Rich 

 Pasture supplies 13J units and Arable Land 27 

 units. 



managed arable farm is shown to be capable of 

 supplying about twenty-seven times as much 

 human food as our poorest enclosed pastures, twice 

 as much as rich pastures, and about one-half more 

 than well-managed grass dairy land." 



