The British Farmer and His Competitors (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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It has frequently been contended that a vast area of land in this country could not be farmed at a profit if held rent-free but a good deal of exaggeration has been indulged in upon this point. That it is true in the case of some poor, heavy land, expensive to work, not well suited for live stock, and burdened with a heavy tithe rent-charge, may be admitted. The area of such land, however, is very small. If a return were made of farms in Great Britain which have been offered rent-free and refused, I believe it would show a number ridiculously small. Certainly, the acreage of land out of cultivation is quite insig nificant. The Agricultural Returns for 1887 showed that the area of arable land in England and Wales unoccupied by either landlord or tenant was only acres, as compared with acres in 1881. It is true that these figures do not prove that the land farmed by landlords IS farmed at a profit; but they do prove that there is very little land in the country which no one would farm if rent free.

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