The Landed Interest and the Supply of FoodCassell, Petter, Galpin, 1880 - 184 pages |
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Page 113
... original object was to promote the inclosure of waste lands , and thereby to increase the home produce of food , and afford increased employment to the agri- cultural labourers . These objects , so far as they were necessary , have to a ...
... original object was to promote the inclosure of waste lands , and thereby to increase the home produce of food , and afford increased employment to the agri- cultural labourers . These objects , so far as they were necessary , have to a ...
Page 119
... original statute . All hereditaments , corporeal and in- corporeal , may now be exchanged with ease and at a very moderate cost . Inequality in value to the extent of an eighth may be compensated by a rent - charge annexed to the less ...
... original statute . All hereditaments , corporeal and in- corporeal , may now be exchanged with ease and at a very moderate cost . Inequality in value to the extent of an eighth may be compensated by a rent - charge annexed to the less ...
Page 133
Sir James Caird. COMMUTATION OF TITHE . 133 yielded by the land , the original object that the Church should progress in material resources in equal proportion with the land being thus maintained . From 1836 that increment was stopped ...
Sir James Caird. COMMUTATION OF TITHE . 133 yielded by the land , the original object that the Church should progress in material resources in equal proportion with the land being thus maintained . From 1836 that increment was stopped ...
Page 153
... old rent for the first four ( which completes the original term ) , and for the remainder at such a rent as may be agreed on . The tenant is to to undue tion . cultivate and manage the farm during the first sixteen years.
... old rent for the first four ( which completes the original term ) , and for the remainder at such a rent as may be agreed on . The tenant is to to undue tion . cultivate and manage the farm during the first sixteen years.
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... Original Work of Reference to all the Words in the English Language , with a Full Account of their Origin , Meaning , Pronunciation , and Use . By ROBERT HUNTER , M.A. , F.G , S . , & c . Three Divisional Vols . now ready , price ios ...
... Original Work of Reference to all the Words in the English Language , with a Full Account of their Origin , Meaning , Pronunciation , and Use . By ROBERT HUNTER , M.A. , F.G , S . , & c . Three Divisional Vols . now ready , price ios ...
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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...