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the land, either as occupiers or permanent 

 labourers, at 1,673,000, a gross output of 

 £90 per head. The area of the land from 

 which this produce was obtained was 

 47,795,000 acres, which included 12,800,000 

 acres of mountain and heath land used for 

 grazing. The gross value of the produce, 

 therefore, amounted to £3 3s. Id. per acre, 

 or, omitting the woodlands, which are esti- 

 mated to have returned 6s. per acre, and the 

 rough grazings, which were valued at 10s. 

 to 12s. per acre, a total gross sum of £4 10s. 

 per acre on the 32 million acres of cultivated 

 land. 



Such is the result of the exhaustive inquiries 

 and estimates of the Board of Agriculture. 

 Great Britain at the commencement of the 

 Twentieth Century, with the help of scientific 

 teaching, improved seed, abundance of arti- 

 ficial manure of the most valuable character, 

 the highest skill in cultivation, and the 

 greatest market in the world, is unable to 

 show a return of £5 per acre for her cultivated 

 land, in spite of the facts which are revealed 

 in the following pages, not only as to the 

 capacity of the soil to produce infinitely 

 more valuable crops, but of the ability of 

 its occupiers. If wc add to the gross value 

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