112 



THE POSSIBILITIES 



Rurhds 



er 



cultivated, 

 acre 



FIG. 3. Proportion of cultivated and uncultivated areas in 

 Great Britain, Belgium, and France, a, Wheat ; b, 

 wheat and rye mixed ; c, other cereals ; d', green crops ; 

 d, permanent pasture ; e, uncultivated. 



cereals were abolished (they were before that 

 sixpence for each 220 lb.), and corn could be 

 imported free, "the importers were no more 

 obliged to make special declarations for mer- 

 chandise which had to be re-exported ; they 

 declared their imports as if they were destined 

 to be used within the country." * The result 



* I take these lines from a letter which the Rural Office of 

 the Belgian Ministry of Agriculture had been kind enough to 



