No such Economic Survey has ever been made, and the results are lamentable.
There has been no mapping out of the soil areas from the point of view of Agricultural Economics, and, for the lack of such impartial information, the fundamental conflict between tillage and grazing goes on in the dark.

We know where coal is to be found in Ireland; we do not know with any assurance where it is and where it is not profitably workable.

The same is true of granite, marble, and indeed all our mineral resources.
The woollen industry flourishes in one district and fails in another, to all appearance as favourably situated; it seems capable of great expansion and yet it does not expand greatly.

What then are the conditions of success?
Here is a typical case that calls for scientific analysis.

One can pick at random a dozen such instances.