288 Mr. William Pitt on the Production and 



Quantify of Land necessary to subsist 8 Millions of People in Englat d, accord- 

 ing to their present Alode of Living, 



Acres. 

 Bread corn and fallows for wheat _ - _ 3,000,000 



Barley ground for beverage . _ _ - 1,500,000 



Potatoes and other vegetables - _ _ 500,000 



Grass land, or green coops, for breeding, rearing, and fatting live 



stock for butcher's meat « . _ _ 12,000,000 



Grass land for dairy cows « - _ 4,000,000 



For the support of human kind - 21,000,000 



CHAPTER IV. 



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Horses, their use cannot be dispensed with ; Estimate of the Number kept in Eng- 

 land ; how far the Number may be reduced ; thei'r Consumption of Landed 

 Produce; general Consumption by Men and Horses. 



The consumption of landed produce by horses has been much complained of, as 

 interfering with the subsistence of human kind; and they do, doubtless, consume 

 the produce of a large proportion of the soil, as being an animal that requires to 

 be pampered, and fed with some degree of luxury, to enable him to answer the 

 demands for strength and speed, that are frequently required of him; but I fear 

 that in the present state of human society in England, or till some alteration shall 

 happen in it for the worse, the extensive use of this animal cannot be dispensed 

 with. 



The number kept in England has been variously calculated, though I suppose it 

 may be nearly known by the horse duty, although it is very probable a certain pro- 

 portion may have been omitted entering; and it might tend to throw some light on 

 this sfibject if the Board, who have undoubtedly the means, would procure the 

 nuii.ber subjected to that tax; the writer of this has no means of access to such 

 particulars, or he would have been glad to have availed himself of it upon this oc- 

 casion. The number of all sorts kept in England has been reckoned by Mr. 

 Mackie, Annals of Agriculture, vol. xxviii. p.382, at two millions; and this estimate 



