70 THE GREAT WAR 



would yield 3000 or 4000 yearly to the 

 national income more than they do at present. 

 Every 1000 acres so treated would give employ- 

 ment to at least 5000 men with their families, 

 besides horses. The supposed traveller, on think- 

 ing over these facts, would probably realize the 

 enormous price we pay for our adherence to an 

 obsolete land system, which has been discarded 

 by every country in Europe except our own. 

 After all, the creation of occupying ownerships 

 would only be a return to a system which pre- 

 vailed in this country in olden times, when the 

 people enjoyed a rude abundance ; when poverty 

 in the sense of destitution was unknown; and 

 when legal pauperism did not exist. 



ERRATUM. 



On page 70, line 3, for "1,000 acres" read "100,000 acres " 

 Where land is reasonably well farmed the result would be even 

 more advantageous than this. For example, at Catshill (as shown 



? P 5? S ^ on 146 acres there are 32 families. On such basis 



00,000 acres would give employment to over 21,000 families; 

 whilst a considerably larger number would be employed if market 

 gardening oil "intensive" lines were adopted. Apart from these 

 increases of actual cultivators, there would also be a whole army 

 so to speak, of people engaged in work connected directly with 

 agriculture ; such as that of carpenters, blacksmiths, wheelwrights 

 implement makers, saddlers, millers, artificial manure and feeding 

 stuffs manufacturers, builders, etc. 



