New and Improved Methods 



— two facts of great importance from the 

 national point of view. 



The following table from The New States- 

 man shows the increase in the animal pro- 

 duce of arable land as compared with that of 

 grass land of the same quality : — 



Table XIV. 



Comparison of Yields of Grass and Arable 

 Land. 



Meat. Milk. 



Yield per acre of grass land . . 200 lbs. 170 galls. 

 „ „ arable land . 450 „ 360 „ ^ 



Further, arable land produces a larger 

 margin of profit for the farmer. 



Wheat is the " basic " crop in arable 

 farming, and if the area of land under the 

 plough is greatly increased, the amount of 

 wheat grown must likewise increase. By 

 careful cultivation the good farmer, i.e. one 

 who produces over four quarters to the acre, 

 can make wheat pay well even at 355-. a 

 quarter, certainly at 40.?. a quarter, and if 

 the farmer could be certain that that price 



1 Speaking at the British Association at Manchester, Professor 

 T. H. Middleton of the Board of Agriculture said, " A well- 

 managed arable farm is shown to be capable of supplying about 

 twenty-seven times as much human food as our poorest enclosed 

 pastures, twice as much as rich pastures, and about one-half more 

 than well-managed grass dairy land." 



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