Fields, factories and workshops; or, Industry combined with agriculture and brain work with manual work; . ying nearly all the food of apopulation which is denser than that of England andWales, and numbers 544 inhabitants to the square the exports and imports of agricultural produce fromand into Belgium be taken into account, we can say that * Taking all horses, cattle and sheep in both countries, and reckoningeight sheep as equivalent to one head of horned cattle, we find thatBelgium has twenty-three cattle units and horses upon each 100 acres ofterritory, as against twenty same units
Fields, factories and workshops; or, Industry combined with agriculture and brain work with manual work; . ying nearly all the food of apopulation which is denser than that of England andWales, and numbers 544 inhabitants to the square the exports and imports of agricultural produce fromand into Belgium be taken into account, we can say that * Taking all horses, cattle and sheep in both countries, and reckoningeight sheep as equivalent to one head of horned cattle, we find thatBelgium has twenty-three cattle units and horses upon each 100 acres ofterritory, as against twenty same units and horses in Great Britain. Ifwe take cattle alone, the disproportion is much greater, as we find thirty-six cattle units on each 100 acres of cultivable area, as against nineteenin Great Britain. The annual value of animal produce in Belgium isestimated by the Annuairc Statistique de la Bclgjque (1893, p. 263) at^^58,039,050, including poultry (£1,). THE POSSIlilLniLS OF AGKlCULTUkli. s; Laveleyes conclusions are still good, and that onlyone inhabitant out of each ten to twenty requires im-.
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