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Excerpt from Meadows and Pastures: A Compendium of the Grasses of Tennessee No surer test of the degree of agricultural advancement of a country can be found than the relative acreage of land laid down to grass and devoted to tillage. Wherever the grass is most abnud ant there is the highest farming. This statement is most strikingly established by comparing the agricultural systems of France and England. In France 53 per cent of the tillable land is annually sown in some kind of grain, while in England the grain-bearing per cent of land is only 25. On the other hand, while France has but 22 per cent in grass, England has 50. Notwithstanding this difference in the amount of land devoted to grain, the yield of wheat to each inhabitant is almost identical in the two countries Every acre of grain land in England receives, on an average, the manure from the animals fed off three acres of grass. In France, on the contrary, the manure made from each acre of grass has to be spread over two and a half acres of grain. In other words, each acre of grain in England gets nine loads of manure to one load given to the acre in France. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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