Delmar.] 



240 



[Oct. 2, 



Relation op Cultivated Lanbs to Population in Four Different 



Countries. 



Country. 



United States {g) 



United Kingdom. 



France 



Egypt 



Year. 



Cultivated Lands. 

 Acres per Capita. 



1850 



1860 



1870 (4) 



1873 



1872 



1873 



Cultivated Lands, in- 

 cluding pasture and 

 forest lands in use. 

 Acres per capita. 



4.9 ] 12.7 



5.2 [Average,! 13 

 4.9(A) f 3.3 10.6 (7i) 



1-4 

 2.2 

 0.9 





I Average, 

 I 6.5 



1.5 

 3.1 

 0.9 



The United States is an agricultural country, whicli furnislies other 

 countries with breadstufts out of its own surplus. The United Kingdom 

 is a manufacturing country, which has abandoned the policy of attempt- 

 ing to raise its own breadstuffs, and relies largely upon foreign supplies. 

 The quantities of the latter — that is to say, all breadstuffs (not wheat 

 alone) — usually exported by the United States, do not materially exceed 

 those usually imported by the United Kingdom ; hence an average of the 

 amount of cultivated land per capita in the two countries shows very 

 correctly the true amount needed to support each head of population. 

 According to the table above, this average is over 6^^ acres. In France, 

 which im ports breadstuffs as often as it exports them, and whose population 

 and means of subsistence are running a close race, the average number of 

 acres to each head of population is over thi-ee. Imagine how small, then, 

 must be the portion of an Egyptian laborer, who, if even he had a fair 

 share of all the cultivated land m his country, which is far from being 

 the fact— who, if that land were as productively tilled as are the lands of 

 the other countries named, which, as will be presently shown, is not the 

 case, and who, if all the food-products of that land were kept at home 

 instead of being shipped abroad, as a large portion of them are, would 

 still possess but one-seventh the heritage of an American or English- 

 man, and but one-fourth that of a Frenchman. 



Rural and Civic Population. 



There are few towns in Egypt beside those already specified. Amoog 

 them is Syout, with a population estimated in 1874 at 25,000 (Contemp. 

 Rev., Feb. 1874.) The total civic population of Egypt is estimated at 



(g) The lands classified in the United States census as " improved farm lands," are 

 treated above as " cultivated lands," and the " unimproved farm lands " as " pasture 

 and forest lands In use," as adjuncts to agriculture. " No farm of less than three acres, 

 not unless $500 worth of produce has been sold off it during the year," is included in 

 the United States census returns — a very absurd and misleading exception. 



(/(,) The United States census of 1870 was the worst ever taken, and is palpably defi- 

 cient in almost every respect. The census of 1860 is much more complete and reliable. 



