BRITISH AGRICULTURE 



THE British Land System is an obsolete one. 

 No such system exists in any other country in 

 Europe, except, perhaps, in East Prussia. It is 

 costly, wasteful and unproductive, and the 

 present war reveals its defects as compared with 

 the occupying ownership system adopted in 

 other countries. 



PRICE OF LAND 



Perhaps there is no surer gauge of the pro- 

 ductivity of the soil of a country than the price 

 of the agricultural land in that country. 



Mr. Seebohm Kowntree, in his valuable work 

 " Land and Labour : Lessons from Belgium," 

 states that after making exhaustive enquiries 

 into the position of 2251 occupying owners of 

 130,000 acres of land in Belgium, he finds the 

 average price of land in that country is 60 an 

 acre, as against 25 an acre, the estimated 



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