•248 BEITAIN FOR THE P.RITOX 



for the world's trade supremacy, let us test the system of the 

 respective tenures in another way. 



Partly owing to her fiscal policy and partly to her system 

 of tenures, Great Britain has been forced to devote practically 

 the whole of her cultivated area either to pasturage or to groou 

 crops for her cattle and sheep, heecmse it is asserted hi/ farmers 

 that the rearing of sheep and cattle is the most 'profitable Idnd of 

 farming they can adopt. The last Statistical Abstract * gives 

 the total cultivated area of the United Kingdom for 1907 at 

 49,611,589 acres, of whicli 41,294,176 acres were under 

 " Permanent Pasturage," " Green Crops," etc. Only 8,317,413 

 acres were returned as under " Corn Crops," but of this area only 

 1,665,017 acres were under "Wheat," the remainder, namely, 

 6,652,396 acres, being under barley, oats, rye, beans, and peas. 

 Among the " Green Crops" there were 1,151,632 acres returned 

 as xmder " Potatoes," and this acreage, added to that under 

 " Wheat," gives a total of 2,816,649 acres, out of the total culti- 

 vated area of 49,611,589 acres, as being under crops for Man- 

 Feed, all the rest, namely, 46,794,940 acres, being under Cattle 

 and SiiEEr-FEED. 



Stock Eeaeing: How Germany beats Britain 



If a country devotes practically the whole of its cultivated 

 area to pasturage and green crops for the rearing of live stock 

 chiefly for liuman consumption, it follows that that country 

 should be able to show a larger head of live stock for a given 

 number of acres than a country that does not make a speciality 

 of live-stock rearing, but devotes its lands principally to arable 

 cultivation. Simplifying the matter as much as possible, and 

 reducing it to a calculation on the pasturage area alone, here is 

 a comparison between the number of live stock produced in 

 this country and in Germany — 



United I Permanent pasturage, 

 Kingdom \ acres, 27,411,720 



p / Permanent pasturage, 



Germany | ^^^^^^ 14,747,088 



Horses, 2,079,471 or 7 per 100 acres 

 Cattle, 11,588,560 „ 42 „ „ 

 Sheep, 29,932,004 „ 104 „ 

 Pigs, 3,953,834 „ 14 „ „ 



Horses, 4,207,403 or 29 per 100 acres 

 Cattle, 19,331,508 „ 131 ., 

 Sheep, 7,907,173 „ 54 „ 

 I Pigs, 18,920,600 „ 127 „ „ 



With the exception of sheep, the shortage of which in 

 Germany is, as we have just seen, more than compensated for 



* statistical Abstract for the United Kingdom, 1893-1907 (Parliamentary 

 Blue Book). 



