78 THE GREAT WAR 



Our home production is grown on an area a 

 little less than 2 million acres. If we were to 

 add 7 million acres to our present wheat-growing 

 area making, say, a total of 9 million acres 

 we could produce all the bread-stuff required to 

 feed the people of the United Kingdom, as the 

 9 million of acres at 32 bushels an acre would 

 yield exactly the 36 million quarters named 

 above. This 9 million of acres, considering the 

 end in view, is not a large proportion of the 47 

 million acres of cultivable land in the United 

 Kingdom. The additional acres, besides yielding 

 enough bread for the nation, would provide at 

 home straw and offals, such as bran, pollard, 

 sharps, middlings, etc., for stock feeding, instead 

 of importing them from abroad. 1 



1 We imported in 1913 bran and pollard to the value of 

 71,660, and sharps and middlings to the value of 91,501, 

 and " unenumerated offals " to the value of 74,002. 



