EXTRACT from Sowerby's Thorough Cultivation : 



If you cultivated the soil with the same skill that the manufacturers 

 conduct their businesses, you would not have population enough to 

 cultivate the land. Lord Ducie has given the same opinion, that if the 

 land were properly cultivated there would not be sufficient labourers to 

 till it. And yet, whilst that is the fact, you are chasing your population 

 from village to village, and sending the people away to the Antipodes ; 

 whereas if your lands were properly cultivated you would be trying to 

 lure them back as the most valuable part of your possessions. 



EXTRACT from Kropotkin's Fields, Factories, and Workshops : 



(1) If the soil of the United Kingdom were cultivated only as it was 

 thirty-five years ago, 24,000,000 people, instead of 17,000,000, could live 

 on home-grown food ; and that culture, while giving occupation to an 

 additional 750,000 men, would give nearly 3,000,000 wealthy home cus- 

 tomers to the British manufacturers. 



(2) If the cultivable area of the United Kingdom were cultivated as 

 the soil is cultivated on the average in Belgium, the United Kingdom 

 would have food for at least 37,000,000 inhabitants ; and it might export 

 agricultural produce without ceasing to manufacture so as freely to 

 supply all the needs of a wealthy population. 



(3) If the population of this country came to be doubled, all that 

 would be required for producing the food for 80,000,000 inhabitants 

 would be to cultivate the soil as it is cultivated in the best farms of 

 this country, in Lornbardy, and in Flanders, and to utilise some 

 meadows which at present lie almost unproductive, in the same way as 

 the neighbourhoods of the big cities in France are utilised for market 

 gardening. 



