Consumption of Corn in Great Britain^ Sec. 32 j 



Acres. 



88 Brought forward animal food for 40 persons. 



40 Of sheep land to supply animal food for _ - 40 . 



40 For feeding cattle to supply beef, &c. for - - 40 



Making a supply of animal food for 120 persons, 

 10 For succession stock to keep up the dairy. 

 6 To supply garden vegetables of all kinds, or a quarter of an acre to every 

 family of 5 persons. 



184 To supply bread, beverage, animal food, and vegetables, or the whole sub- 

 sistence of 1 20 persons. 

 32 To support 8 horses; 6 for constant farming work, 1 young horse for succes- 

 sion, and one hackney, to be kept in the stable on the food mentioned above. 



216 For the support of 120 persons and 8 horses. 



In this proportion 8,000,000 of people, with the requisite horses, will require 

 14,400,000 acres of land; but the kingdom, with its practicable waste lands, con- 

 tains 30,000,000 of acres: there is therefore room, under the above proposed 

 system of cultivation, to maintain a population of 16,000,000 and two-thirds of a 

 million of people, or about double the present number oF inhabitants ; and this, 

 under prosperous circumstances, would be brought about within the course of the 

 present century. 



And if Scotland and Wales are capable of improvement in the same proportion, 

 which, from their much greater proportional extent of waste land, I believe they 

 are, as they at present contain a population exceeding one-fourth of that of England, 

 they would, in the same course of time, and under similar circumstances, increase 

 to 4,000,000 and one-third of a million ; and the island might tlien contain and 

 support 21,000,000 of people. 



In a general practice of agriculture upon such system, a much greater number 

 of persons, in proportion to the acres, must be employed than at present. There 

 is reason to believe that in the present practice a sufficient number of people are 

 not employed, and that many more might be employed to advantage. 



To illustrate the practicability of the proposed system, and to shew the number 

 of persons necessary, in proportion to the whole population, to cultivate the land, 

 I will put the case of a farm sufficient to subsist 120 persons, which, by the above 



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