CHAPTER II 

 Present Methods 



A CLOSE examination of our present system 

 is necessary before improvement can be sug- 

 gested, and the following appear to be the 

 chief defects in the existing agricultural 

 methods. 



A. Grass Land. 



Far too large a proportion of our agricul- 

 tural land is under grass. Table IV. shows 

 that the proportion of grass to the total 

 amount of land used for agricultural purposes, 

 is far higher in the United Kingdom than in 

 almost any European country. 



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