Chapter II: The Possibilities of Agriculture

natural causes. In France and Belgium one-third of the territory is in like manner also treated as uncultivable, although portions of it are continually reclaimed and brought under culture. But, leaving aside the “uncultivable” portion, let us see what is done with the 565 acres out of 1,000 of the “cultivable” part (32,145,930 acres in Great Britain in 1910). First of all, it is divided into two parts, and one of them, the largest — 308 acres out of 1,000 — is left under “permanent pasture,” that is, in most cases it is entirely uncultivated. Very little hay is obtained from it,⁴⁷ and some cattle are grazed upon it. More than one-half of the cultivable area is thus left without