Sections 1 THE POSSIBILITIES OF AGRICULTURE. 2 Those who dream of monopolising technical genius are therefore fifty years behind the times. 3 Let us take, for instance, J. 4 Since the year 1887 affairs went, however, from worse to worse. 5 In short, agriculture has not changed its direction, as we are often told; it simply went… 6 Again, taking Harrow as the centre of my excursions, I could walk five miles towards London,… 7 Such were my impressions of British agriculture twenty years ago. 8 Many causes have combined to produce that undesirable result. 9 However splendid, a meadow remains a meadow, much inferior in productivity to a corn-field;… 10 The net result of all that is, that on nearly 33,000,000 acres of cultivable land the food… 11 The net result is that, although one-third part of the territory is also treated as… 12 Large portions of the land are given besides to the culture of industrial plants, potatoes… 13 Now, if we take the figures given in the Annuaire Statistique de la Belgique for the year… 14 All taken, there is thus no possibility of contesting the fact, that if the soil of Great… 15 Everyone knows that it is now Danish butter which rules the prices in the London market, and… 16 * * * * * If we want, however, to know what agriculture can be, and what can be grown on a… 17 As to beetroot, which is used also for feeding cattle, Mr. 18 There prevails, however, with regard to market-gardening, a misunderstanding which it would… 19 I could not relate here all the marvels achieved in market-gardening; so that I must refer… 20 Let me add also that all this wonderful culture has entirely developed in the second half of… 21 As a matter of fact, if we put aside those gardeners who chiefly cultivate the so-called… 22 It is obvious that now, when the capitalist system makes us pay for everything three or four… 23 If we take all into consideration; if we realise the progress made of late in the gardening… 24 * * * * * We must, however, recognise that there are a few economists fully aware of the… 25 But if we analyse price, and make a distinction between its different elements, the… 26 Twenty-five years have passed since I wrote these lines—the agricultural crisis provoked by… 27 “For a time the Belgian agriculturist was hardly hit, but gradually he adjusted himself to… 28 The same applies to the American supplies of meat. 29 Under the special conditions offered in the Far West this certainly was an appropriate… 30 The force of “American competition” 31 “Intensive”
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