1K94 Mr.WiWhm'Pht on the Production and 



Hence I conclude that the produce of land consumed by horses, is the Acres. 



growth of about _ _ » _ 5,000,000 



And by human kind, brought forward - - - 21,000,000 



Land necessary to supply the present consumption 26,000,000 



And that the land is occupied as follows, nearly : 



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



Barley ground, chiefly for beverage - ~ - 1,500,000 



Potatoes, pease, and other vegetables for mankind - 500,000 



Grain, and pulse, consumed by h«gs and fat cattle - 250,000 



Turnips and other green crops about - . 1,000,000 

 Oats consumed by horses ; I suppose the oatmeal consumed by mankind, 



to balance the wheat bran, &c. consumed by horses - 1,500,000 



Beans, and pulse consumed by horses » - _ 0,250,000 



In tillage, Acres . - 8,000,000 

 Grass land for cattle and sheep, the turnip land being deducted from the 

 font er estimate; also the grain and pulse consumed by hogs and 

 cattle - _ - - 14,750,000 



Grass and hay ground, for horses - - - . 3,250,000 



Total as before, Acres 26,000,000 



CHAPTER V. 



Extent of Territorv, cultivated and waste ; Power of Increase, greater than 

 Means of Subsistence ; Periods of doubling a Population ; means of Increasing 

 supplies; waste Lands, Improvements. 



The territorial extent of England alone, from a paper in the Monthly Magazine, 

 there said to liave been published by the House of Lords, is supposed to be 50, 210 

 •square tnilc?, or - - - _ 32,134,000 acres. 



The exicni of waste land from the best authorities, is supposed 

 to be about one fifth of the cultivated land, or one sixth of the 



