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reclaimed and brought under culture. But, 

 leaving aside the " uncultivable " portion, let us 

 see what is done with the 565 acres out of 1,000 

 of the "cultivable" part (32,145,930 acres in 

 Great Britain in 1910). First of all, it is divided 

 into two parts, and one of them, the largest 

 308 acres out of 1,000 is left under " permanent 

 pasture," that is, in most cases it is entirely 

 uncultivated. Very little hay is obtained from 

 it,* and some cattle are grazed upon it. More 

 than one-half of the cultivable area is thus left 

 without cultivation, and only 257 acres out of 

 each 1,000 acres are under culture. Out of these 

 last, 124 acres are under corn crops, twenty-one 

 acres under potatoes, fifty-three acres under 

 green crops, and seventy-three acres under clover 

 fields and grasses under rotation. And finally, 

 out of the 124 acres given to corn crops, the best 

 thirty-three, and some years only twenty-five 

 acres (one-fortieth part of the territory, one- 

 twenty-third of the cultivable area), are picked 

 out and sown with wheat. They are well culti- 

 vated, well manured, and upon them an average 

 of from twenty-eight to thirty bushels to the 

 acre is obtained ; and upon these twenty-five 

 or thirty acres out of 1,000 the world superiority 

 of British agriculture is based. 



* Only from each 62 acres, out of 308 acres, hay is obtained. 

 The remainder are grazing grounds. 



