Note 58 — Chapter III · THE POSSIBILITIES OF AGRICULTURE.

Assuming that 9,000 lb. of dry hay are necessary for keeping one head of horned cattle every year, the following figures (taken from Toubeau’s Répartition métrique des impôts) will show what we obtain now under usual and under intensive culture:—

Crop per acre. Eng. lb. Equivalent in dry hay. Eng. lb. Number of cattle fed from each 100 acres.

Pasture — 1,200 13

Unirrigated meadows — 2,400 26

Clover, cut twice — 4,800 52

Swedish turnips 38,500 10,000 108

Rye-grass 64,000 18,000 180

Beet, high farming 64,000 21,000 210

Indian corn, ensilage 120,000 30,000 330