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THE fact that on each hundred acres of cultivated land Germany feeds seventy of her people while Britain can only support forty-five has rightly received wide publicity in the daily Press. The memorandum by Mr. T. fi. Middleton, Assistant-Secretary, Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, which explains how Germany does this, should be studied by all who have the welfare of British agriculture at heart. The two chief factors in the recent remarkable development of German agriculture are her settled economic policy and her well-thought-out system of agricultural education. It was the belief that he was essential to the community, and that his land would not be allowed to go out of cultivation, rather than the extra profit on his wheat, that has inspired the German farmer to greater efforts during the last ten years. The need for well-educated men as managers of estates is more commonly recognised in Germany than in England; hence a career is open to successful students from the training institutions of Prussia, while the English student who lacks the capital to farm on his own account must look abroad for an outlet for his knowledge of practical agriculture.
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The Recent Development of German Agriculture . Nature 97, 508–509 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/097508a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/097508a0