Eureka Reporter | 1903-07-24 | Page 4 | Cultivation of English Land

cultivation OF ENGLISH LAND little changes made in the past five hundred years in view of the proposal to establish a tariff on foodstuffs in great britain it is interesting to recall that in the opinion of prof thorold rogers and others there is no more land under cultivation in england Englana now than there was years ago prof rogers sayo say let it be admitted that some land has been broken up which was never put under the plow till the last fifty years and we must set against it that which has been turned into pasture and oc coupled by the growth of towns in mediaeval times a park or pleasure ground in the neighborhood of a man sion was un unknown known cultivation Cult was carried on tip up to the very doors of fie te house and more so perhaps as amity to the master masters s abode was an element of security tor for the crop it if we walk in the grounds of a modern english park now laid out in grass we may offen often see the marks of an chent ent culture in ridge and furrow thousands thousands of acres have been laid down in meadow which centuries ao bore crops of corn similarly thou sands of acres in the suburbs of an dent clent towns are now built over but once were used for growing crops