The Landed Interest and the Supply of FoodCassell, Petter, Galpin, 1880 - 184 pages |
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... United States with that of England and France - The Great North - West Wheat Belt of Canada - Reduction of the Cost ... United Kingdom , in each year since 1867 ... ... ... ... Table showing Quantities and Value of Foreign Grain and Live ...
... United States with that of England and France - The Great North - West Wheat Belt of Canada - Reduction of the Cost ... United Kingdom , in each year since 1867 ... ... ... ... Table showing Quantities and Value of Foreign Grain and Live ...
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... United Kingdom , per acre , during each of the last thirty years , and in three periods of ten years each Description of the " Fertile Belt " of the North- West Territory of Canada , published by Mr. Caird , in 1859 , with Analysis of ...
... United Kingdom , per acre , during each of the last thirty years , and in three periods of ten years each Description of the " Fertile Belt " of the North- West Territory of Canada , published by Mr. Caird , in 1859 , with Analysis of ...
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... corresponding increase in the foreign sup- ply ; the result of which is that we now receive Proportion of home and foreign supply of food and clothing in the United Kingdom . England now chiefly our bread in smaller proportion from our.
... corresponding increase in the foreign sup- ply ; the result of which is that we now receive Proportion of home and foreign supply of food and clothing in the United Kingdom . England now chiefly our bread in smaller proportion from our.
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... United Kingdom . returns . The collection of these returns was instituted in Ireland at the time of the potato ... Great Britain . After long perseverance I succeeded in obtaining a Resolution of the House of Commons in favour of the ...
... United Kingdom . returns . The collection of these returns was instituted in Ireland at the time of the potato ... Great Britain . After long perseverance I succeeded in obtaining a Resolution of the House of Commons in favour of the ...
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... Great Britain . It has diminished in England , and largely in Scotland and Ireland , the diminution amounting to one fourth of its area since 1869. Barley has increased , while oats remain much the same , but the total extent of arable ...
... Great Britain . It has diminished in England , and largely in Scotland and Ireland , the diminution amounting to one fourth of its area since 1869. Barley has increased , while oats remain much the same , but the total extent of arable ...
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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...