302 Mr. William Pitt on the Production and 



improve; and I suppose the same would hold good, to grass consumed in the same 

 way by all sorts' of cattle. 



If this practice were general, to all kinds of heavy stock it would be the 

 means of an immense saving in the extent of land necessary for their support j all- 

 working horses should be supplied through summer, with lucern, vetches, clover or 

 mown grass carried to the stables, and the manure arising therefrom, should be 

 immediately returned to the land, and in winter plenty of chaff and cut straw should 

 be mixed with their corn : I believe that by a strict adherence to this economy, 

 managed with judgment, an acre per head, upon all the horses kept in the kingdom, 

 might be saved in their support. 



Milking and dairy cows, might be supported in the same way by vetches or 

 mown grass in summer, one acre per head; and by turnips, cabbages, carrots, 

 potatoes, and Swedish turnips, till grass, or vetches came round ; an acre per 

 head from such crops, would be sufficient for winter keep ; and two acres thus for 

 the whole year round ; the grass land for this purpose must be improved, to a 

 state fit for mowing, in which state all permanent grass land ought to be, after 

 proper winter, and spring saving ; and the return of the manure from its own 

 produce, will support it in that state, and even improve it. 



If all the heavy cattle stock of the kingdom were kept upon this system, and 

 green crops sufficient cultivated for their support, which might be occasionally 

 assisted from grass land ; it is probable that one million and a half of such stock 

 now in being, might be maintained equally well as at present, upon Acres. 



an acre per head less land, saving _ , _ _ 1,500,000 



And one million of horses, upon the same system, on a saving of i.ooo.coo 



Saving of land by confining heavy stock - -» 2,500,000 



And of the fallow ground of the kingdom, green crops upon - 500000 



Saving of land by this system, acres 3,000.000 



And this of our most productive land. The produce of this thrown into the 

 market, would supply a much greater demand than is likely to exist at present, or 

 for many years to come. As this method of supporting heavy stock became 

 general, a greater stock might be maintained, and yet a proportion of grass land 

 cultivated for green crops and grain; and thus great addition made to the national 

 resources for human subsistence. 



