Fields, factories and workshops; or, Industry combined with agriculture and brain work with manual work; . :=: 1^ Fig. 2.—Proportion oi the cultivated area which is given to cerealsaltogether, and to wheat, in Belgium. The square which enclosesthe wheat square represents the area given to both wheat and amixture of wheat with rye. ported food. The soil of Belgium supplies with home-grown food no less than 490 inhabitants per square mile, S8 FIELDS, FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS. and there remains something for export—no less than;£^ 1,000,000 worth of agricultural produce being exported. F:g. 3
Fields, factories and workshops; or, Industry combined with agriculture and brain work with manual work; . :=: 1^ Fig. 2.—Proportion oi the cultivated area which is given to cerealsaltogether, and to wheat, in Belgium. The square which enclosesthe wheat square represents the area given to both wheat and amixture of wheat with rye. ported food. The soil of Belgium supplies with home-grown food no less than 490 inhabitants per square mile, S8 FIELDS, FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS. and there remains something for export—no less than;£^ 1,000,000 worth of agricultural produce being exported. F:g. 3.—Proportion of cultivated and uncultivated areas in Great^Britain, Belgium and France, a, Wheat; b, wheat and ryemixed; c, other cereals ; rf, green crops and permanent pasture;e, uncultivated. every year to Great Britain. Besides, it must not beforgotten that Belgium is a manufacturing country THE -POSSIBILITIES OF AGRICULTURE. 59 which exports home-made goods to the value of £g perhead of population (;£s6,ooo,ooo, on the average, in1886-92), while the total exports from the United King-dom attain only £6 7s. per inhabitant. As to separateparts of the Belgian territory, the small and naturallyunfertile province of West Flanders not only growsthe food of its 580 inhabitants on the square mile, butexports agricultural produce to the value of 255. perhead of its population. And yet no one can read Lave-leyes masterly work without coming to the conclusionthat Flemish agriculture would have realised still betterresults were it not hampered in its growth by the steadyand heavy
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