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FODDER and hay crops play a more important part than cereals in the economy of the farm, because they are the raw materials for a highly important part of the farmer's business—the production of meat, milk, or butter. They are too bulky to transport in any quantity, and farmers use only as much as they themselves grow. The output of meat and dairy produce is, therefore, limited by the quantities of these crops at the farmer's disposal. The quantities produced just before the war and in 1918 were:—
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RUSSELL, E. British Crop Production1. Nature 105, 206–208 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105206a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/105206a0