The balance of evidence is in favour of the discovery
of a new fact. I have taken a good deal of trouble to collect the totals of labour employed on various types of farm ; and the evidence goes to show that the new sort of dairy farm requires more labour than the standard arable farm. It certainly employs more men where, as in Denmark, green fodder, including temporary grasses, is preferred to pasture ; but it is becoming true also of the farm that depends chiefly on permanent grass for fodder. The comparatively new system (practised for a good many years in Germany) of intensive grass management is the chief cause. Very young grass is intensely nutritious. By the system of progressive grazing, following the free use of nitrogenous fertilizers, stock- may be fed and even fattened without much need of further feeding with imported "cake."
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