The Landed Interest and the Supply of FoodCassell, Petter, Galpin, 1880 - 184 pages |
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... , Xxx Author of " English Agriculture in 1850 and 1851. " FOURTH EDITION . CASSELL , PETTER , GALPIN & CO .: LONDON , PARIS & NEW YORK . 1880 . [ ALL RIGHTS reserved . ] 1 1 PREFACE . THIS Treatise was prepared at the.
... , Xxx Author of " English Agriculture in 1850 and 1851. " FOURTH EDITION . CASSELL , PETTER , GALPIN & CO .: LONDON , PARIS & NEW YORK . 1880 . [ ALL RIGHTS reserved . ] 1 1 PREFACE . THIS Treatise was prepared at the.
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... English market will take only the best quality . Under any circum- stances the English producer has the advantage of about a penny a pound in the cost and risk of transport against his Transatlantic and Australian PROPORTION OF FOREIGN ...
... English market will take only the best quality . Under any circum- stances the English producer has the advantage of about a penny a pound in the cost and risk of transport against his Transatlantic and Australian PROPORTION OF FOREIGN ...
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... English agriculture in 1850 , I find descriptions of good farming in nearly every part of the country , the details of which differ very little from the practice of the present day . Mr. Pusey and Sir John Conroy in Berkshire ; Mr ...
... English agriculture in 1850 , I find descriptions of good farming in nearly every part of the country , the details of which differ very little from the practice of the present day . Mr. Pusey and Sir John Conroy in Berkshire ; Mr ...
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... English labourer than the owner of the land to the parish of his birth ; the man of most ancient known descent being in very many cases the labourer . The process is a wholesome one so long as the command to multiply and replenish the ...
... English labourer than the owner of the land to the parish of his birth ; the man of most ancient known descent being in very many cases the labourer . The process is a wholesome one so long as the command to multiply and replenish the ...
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... English labourer , of the southern counties especially , has hitherto had but little education , except in his business . The Scotch have had their parish schools for three centuries , and the Irish a national school system for the last ...
... English labourer , of the southern counties especially , has hitherto had but little education , except in his business . The Scotch have had their parish schools for three centuries , and the Irish a national school system for the last ...
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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...