Present Methods 



Table XII. 



Comparison between Grass Area and Head of Stock in 

 THE United Kingdom and Germany. 



{Taken from Board of Agriculture statistics.) 



Cattle. 



Over large areas of so-called grass land 

 in the United Kingdom the grass is so bad 

 that the term " land gone out of cultivation " 

 might almost be used. Yet it is land that 

 once produced good crops of cereals, and 

 could do so again. There is grass land that 

 is not producing more than 305. or ^os. 

 worth of food to the acre, which under the 

 plough, and growing wheat, could produce 

 ^11 worth of food for the nation and a 

 profit of anything up to ;^5 or £6 per acre 

 for the farmer — this putting the price of 



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