ABSTRACT
Europe can be divided into zones of productiveness centring round Great Britain: the most productive being nearest the centre, the less productive lying beyond, and the least productive on the periphery. One of the most intensively cultivated regions in the world is in the western part of South Holland, where there are some 7,500 acres of fruit and vegetables, 5,000 acres of which are under glass either as houses or frames. Friesland, in its northern part, is one of the most intensive dairying regions in the world with some 48,000 pedigree milch cattle, 38,000 of which give 1,100 gallons of milk or more a year with an average fat content of 3·84 per cent. The numbers of sheep and horses are very unlikely to get back to pre-war levels. Sheep are decreasing in number in many countries where intensive agriculture is practised; unnecessarily in some but with more justification in Sweden where winter pasturage is impossible.
