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by her tremendous preponderance in ])igs, that country, although 

 arable to the hilt, nevertheless succeeds in rearing,' a number 

 of live stock, acre for acre, so enormously in excess of the 

 number raised in this country, in spite of tlie fact that British 

 af^riculturo is almost exclusively devoted to t]i,c rmrinrj of live 

 stucL, as to make it abundantly clear that the British system 

 is an unmitigated failure and fundamentally wrong. 



Xo Apology made for " iiuBBixa it in " 



As this question deeply affects the vitality of the nation, 

 no apology will be made in these pages for " rubbing it in," 

 or, in other words, of citing proof after proof of the nnsuitable- 

 ness of British tenures and the madness of maintaining them. 

 Here is a statement showing the number of persons employed 

 in agriculture in four European countries besides our own — 



This, in itself, forms a sufficiently strong indictment against 

 the ineptness of the British system, but the fact that in the 

 above " cultivated " areas are included 34,5G9,7'.'4 acres of 

 woods and forests in Germany, 22,224,134 acres in France, and 

 22,202,483 acres in Hungary, while in the United Kingdom 

 there are but 3,0(30,375 acres of woods and forests, renders the 

 British position worse by comparison — a given area of forest 

 land obviously employing less labour than a similar area of 

 arable. 



British AorjcuLTUEE surroRTft Smallest Head of the 

 Population in Europe 



Viewed from another point, this wretched t[uestion takes 

 a still more unfavourable aspect. It is generally calculated 

 that in agriculture where one person is emploi/ed, there are 

 about two and a half persons employed, supported, and fed. 

 Tliis rule, applied to the above table, gives the following 

 result : — 



