The Landed Interest and the Supply of FoodCassell, Petter, Galpin, 1880 - 184 pages |
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Page xv
... Acreage of Crops and Number of Live - stock in the United Kingdom , in each year since 1867 ... ... ... ... Table showing Quantities and Value of Foreign Grain and Live Stock , and Provisions imported , in each of the last twenty years ...
... Acreage of Crops and Number of Live - stock in the United Kingdom , in each year since 1867 ... ... ... ... Table showing Quantities and Value of Foreign Grain and Live Stock , and Provisions imported , in each of the last twenty years ...
Page xvi
... 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 Prairie Soils as ...
... 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 Prairie Soils as ...
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... acreage and produce of wheat in this country , and a more than 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 ...
... acreage and produce of wheat in this country , and a more than 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 ...
Page 6
... acreage or production of corn , and little in that of meat . The extent of green crops and grass has slightly increased , from the double impulse of the rise in wages and the increasing demand for dairy produce and meat . But ...
... acreage or production of corn , and little in that of meat . The extent of green crops and grass has slightly increased , from the double impulse of the rise in wages and the increasing demand for dairy produce and meat . But ...
Page 7
... acre in England is seldom less , and often more , than 30s . Hay and straw are so bulky that they can only bear the cost of carriage from near Continental ports . Fresh meat from America and elsewhere , from the costly methods necessary ...
... acre in England is seldom less , and often more , than 30s . Hay and straw are so bulky that they can only bear the cost of carriage from near Continental ports . Fresh meat from America and elsewhere , from the costly methods necessary ...
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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...