"Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread." 



411 



call it permanent pasture, and to do nothing to 

 ensure an adequate hay crop regularly, is to 

 betray the national welfare and to still further 

 Impoverish the millions who inhabit this country. 

 The actual 

 results ob- 

 t a i n e d in 

 other parts of 

 the world are 

 startling in 

 their condem- 

 nation of the 

 existing state 

 of a ff a i r s 

 here. 



UNPRACTIC.\L 

 PASTURES. 



While we 

 give two and 

 three acres 

 for keeping 

 one head of 

 horned cattle, 

 and only in a 

 few places 

 one head of 

 cattle is kept 

 on each acre 

 given to 

 green crops, 

 meadows and 

 pasture, man 

 has already 

 in irrigation 

 (which very 

 soon repays 

 when it is 

 properly 

 made) the 

 possibility of 

 keeping twice 

 and even 

 thrice as 

 many head of 

 cattle to the 

 acre over 

 parts of his 

 territory. A 

 notable con- 

 trast is to be 

 found in Bel- 

 gium, where 

 forty hfad of 

 horned hcasis 



24.000.000 Acres 



The proportion which 

 CANNOT BE \ 



CULTIVATED \ 



Shonn Black tX 



The total nre.i of Great Britain is 56,000,000 .icrcs ; the area of Scotland and Wales, 

 21.000 000 acres, represents the proportion which the agricullural authorities 

 pronounce arbitrarily to lie iinsiiitcd or incapnlile of cultivation : of the remiiiuing 

 32,000,000, 17,500,000 acres are abandoni-d to permanent ^rass for pasture, or to 

 sheer neglect ;_and the re-^idue, 14,500,000, is,arabloicullivation,land. 



are carried for every 



himdrcd 



acres under cultivation, whert^as in the United 

 Kingdom there are only twenty-four per IniTulrcd 

 acres. And Belgium is more densely populated 

 than this country; it is an industrial nation. 



and the natural conditions are less favourable. 



Then Belgium has another surprise for us. 



With a tiny cultivatable area of only 4,350,000 



acres, she manages to raise 1,480,000 pigs, 



while we, 

 with our 

 e n ormous 

 area under 

 "cultivation " 

 of 48,000,000 

 acres, raise 



'^ut 3.953.834 

 of these ani- 

 mals. This 

 works out at 

 33 pigs for 

 every 100 

 acres under 

 cultivation in 

 Belgium, and 

 only 8 per 

 every 100 

 acres in the 

 United King- 

 dom. 



TWO TONS IN- 

 STEAD OF 

 FORTY. 



In England 

 farmers are 

 contented 

 with one and 

 a half and 

 two tons of 

 hay per acre. 

 In Flanders 

 t w o and a 

 half tons of 

 hay to the 

 acre are con- 

 sidered a fair 

 crop. But on 

 the irrigated 

 lields of the 

 N'osges, the 

 \' a u c 1 u se, 

 etc., in 

 France, six 

 tons of dry 

 hay become 

 the rule, even 

 upon ungrate- 

 ful soil ; and 

 ihis means considerably more tiinn the annual 

 food of one milch cow (which can be taken at a 

 little less than five tons) grown on each acre. 



But it is not necessary to look abroad for 

 examples of how pastures should bv utilised or for 



l7.500.000Acr 



he proportion which 



COULD BE / 



CULTIVATED SJ 



But 15 not. 



/l 4.500.000 Acres^5 

 The proportion whicn^'S^— -j 



IS CULTIVATED 5 



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