Present and Suggested Sources 



range lower than they do in the United 

 Kingdom. In the case of wheat, this in- 

 crease in the yield per acre amounts to no 

 less than 25 per cent. Formerly the average 

 wheat production of Denmark was thirty 

 bushels per acre. To-day it is forty bushels 

 per acre. Incidentally this is some 25 per 

 cent, higher than our average wheat produc- 

 tion, which in most years stands at thirty- 

 one bushels per acre. In Holland and 

 Belgium the yield per acre for cereals is 

 also 25 per cent, higher than our yield. 



Table I. 



Comparative Table of Production of Cereals and Pota- 

 toes IN the United Kingdom and in Germany for the 

 LAST Twenty Years. 



We must realize then that while the yield 

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