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But seeing so general a rise of price, in the face of imports of such magnitude, what would have been the condition of our increasing 12 The British Land Question. population if any effective curb had been placed on them ? In the ten years between 1871 and 1881, and chiefly in the latter part of the period, a Conver- considerable extent of arable land has been sion of arable to converted to permanent pasture. In that direc- pasture ; tion 828,000 acres of corn, and 228,000 acres of green crops ...have been absorbed, and an annual return therefrom of about eight millions sterling has consequently disappeared. For though the permanent grass has at the same time been in- creased by 2,2o8,ddo acres, and two acres of grass thus substituted for one of arable, the and yet live stock has fallen from its highest point in heavy decline in 1 874 by 346,000 cattle and 6,856,000 sheep, a number of live-stock, loss exceeding ;^ii8,000,000 in value. This is a caused " chiefly by striking proof of the injury done to the grazing quality of yalue of the finer grass lands, especially by the fluke disease in sheep, in addition to the actual loss of crops on the arable land by the low tem- perature, excessive moisture, and defective quality of the seasons since that year.
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