Despised Acres
On the subject of harvests the Rural Reconstruction Association (which always talks good sense and touches essentials) reports that our tillage acreage is virtually stationary, adding that " ten million acres of permanent pasture (much of it under-farmed) and seventeen million acres of rough grazings (much of it improvable)" are left us, and "in this is the hard core of our food production problem." Lord Lovat's most successful experiment in converting a so-called "deer forest" into a cattle ranch is proof enough. that our stock might be immensely increased in the hill districts of Scotland and perhaps yet more certainly in those of Wales. In some districts little more reclamation is needed than the destruction of bracken. Whatever is thought of long-term schemes of colonial development, such work is obviously a priority.
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