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present with reference to the rest of the Empire can be seen 

 at a glance from the following table : 



1.440. Taking the area under food grains in India at 164 

 million acres and the produce of grain per acre per annum an 

 840 Ibs., and the population at 350 millions, we have to the lot 

 of each individual of the population only 393 Ibs. of food 

 grains per annum, a quantity though sufficient for the present 

 needs, is alarmingly little, if any future expansion of popula- 

 tion is taken into consideration. Of course, for a time the 

 difficulty will be naturally met by the conversion of non-food 

 areas into food-growing areas, but there is a limit to this 

 source of expansion also. 



1.441. The area covered by the British Empire is about 

 th of the area of the whole earth's surface, and the population 

 represents a fourth of the population of the whole world. 

 The stress of population though highest in England itself, 



