The Landed Interest and the Supply of FoodCassell, Petter, Galpin, 1880 - 184 pages |
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... British Agriculture , for the information of European Agriculturists at the Inter- national Agricultural Congress of Paris , in 1878. For this purpose it was trans lated into French by M. de la Tréhonnais , and so published in Paris ...
... British Agriculture , for the information of European Agriculturists at the Inter- national Agricultural Congress of Paris , in 1878. For this purpose it was trans lated into French by M. de la Tréhonnais , and so published in Paris ...
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... 142-156 CHAPTER XII . Agricultural Prospects . The Bad Harvest of 1879 - Great Agricultural De- pression - Estimated Loss sustained by British CONTENTS . Wheat Growers - Stimulus given to American Agriculture xiv CONTENTS .
... 142-156 CHAPTER XII . Agricultural Prospects . The Bad Harvest of 1879 - Great Agricultural De- pression - Estimated Loss sustained by British CONTENTS . Wheat Growers - Stimulus given to American Agriculture xiv CONTENTS .
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... British Farm Delegates to Manitoba ― Their Opinion of its High Fertility - Wheat expected to be placed in this Country at 3s . 6d . a Bushel- Articles to which we must turn our Attention- Urgency of Removal of all Legal Restraints that ...
... British Farm Delegates to Manitoba ― Their Opinion of its High Fertility - Wheat expected to be placed in this Country at 3s . 6d . a Bushel- Articles to which we must turn our Attention- Urgency of Removal of all Legal Restraints that ...
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... British farmer in his proximity to the home market , as compared with the foreign farmer who seeks our market for his produce , thus gives him an advantage equal to the present average rent of his land , placing him so far on an ...
... British farmer in his proximity to the home market , as compared with the foreign farmer who seeks our market for his produce , thus gives him an advantage equal to the present average rent of his land , placing him so far on an ...
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... British Islands . arrangement of the figures : - Value of Corn and Vegetable Home Growth . Foreign . produce £ 125,737,500 £ 64,900,000 Value of animal produce , in- clusive of wool 135,000,000 60,400,0co £ 260,737,500 £ 125,300,000 ...
... British Islands . arrangement of the figures : - Value of Corn and Vegetable Home Growth . Foreign . produce £ 125,737,500 £ 64,900,000 Value of animal produce , in- clusive of wool 135,000,000 60,400,0co £ 260,737,500 £ 125,300,000 ...
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acreage acres advantage agri agricul agricultural labourer animal annual average barley better Britain British bushels capital Cassell cent Cheap Edition chiefly Church climate cloth gilt competition continued copyhold corn Corn Laws corn-crops Crown 8vo CROWN ESTATES cultivation demand diminution districts drainage England English enterprise equal estates expenditure extent farmer farms favourable fertility foreign supply FRANK DICKSEE GALPIN gilt edges Government grass greater green crops Illustrated inclosures increase Ireland Irish Land Act land improvement landed interests landed property landowners lease live-stock loans lord manure meat ment millions sterling natural nearly nitrate of soda oats object owners parish pasture period population potato principle produce profit proportion prosperity remunerative rent rental rise Saskatchewan Scotch Scotland settlement sheep soil tenant-farmers tenure tion tithe trade tural twenty United Kingdom value of land vast wages waste lands wheat whole yield
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Page 29 - Thirty years ago, probably not more than one-third of the people of this country consumed animal food more than once a week. Now, nearly all of them eat it, in meat, or cheese, or butter, once a day.
Page 29 - The leap which the consumption of meat took in consequence of the general rise of wages in all branches of trade and employment, could not have been met without foreign supplies...
Page 131 - France," and made that famous division of them into four parts ; one to maintain the edifice of the church, the second to support the poor, the third the bishop, and the fourth the parochial clergy...