New and Improved Methods 



C. — English Farm of 500 Acres. 

 Gross Sale of Produce. 



By sale of — 

 Corn 



Hay and stra\\- . 



Cattle . . . 



Milk . . . 



Pigs . . . 



Total . 



;^4,I24 19 I 



This farm is nearly all arable, and was in a very bad condition. 

 It is now yielding about ;^8 per acre ; a few years ago it did not 

 yield £4 per acre. 



But it must not be supposed that the 

 arable farm is suitable only or even chiefly 

 for producing cereals. Live stock can be 

 raised just as effectively on arable farms as 

 on grass farms if lucerne and other fodder 

 crops are grown. Reference to tables Nos. 

 III. and IV. shows the head of stock kept 

 per 100 acres in "arable" and "grass" 

 counties, and in the United Kingdom as 

 compared with certain other countries. In 

 no country but England could such a stupid 

 controversy have been raised as that which 

 has recently appeared in the press, ** Should 

 the United Kingdom produce more meat or 

 more cereals ? for clearly it must be one or 



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