The Landed Interest and the Supply of FoodCassell, Petter, Galpin, 1880 - 184 pages |
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... advantage and ours , the beneficent principle of Free Trade has placed within our reach . The progressive increase of foreign supplies during the past twenty years is marvellous , the value of foreign cereal and animal food imported ...
... advantage and ours , the beneficent principle of Free Trade has placed within our reach . The progressive increase of foreign supplies during the past twenty years is marvellous , the value of foreign cereal and animal food imported ...
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... 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 TO HOME SUPPLY . 5 competitor an 4 THE LANDED INTEREST .
... 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 TO HOME SUPPLY . 5 competitor an 4 THE LANDED INTEREST .
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Sir James Caird. PROPORTION OF FOREIGN TO HOME SUPPLY . 5 competitor an advantage equal to £ 4 on an Of this natural advantage nothing average ox . can deprive him . The proportion in which the people of this country are dependent for ...
Sir James Caird. PROPORTION OF FOREIGN TO HOME SUPPLY . 5 competitor an advantage equal to £ 4 on an Of this natural advantage nothing average ox . can deprive him . The proportion in which the people of this country are dependent for ...
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... advantage equal to the present average rent of his land , placing him so far on an equality with the owners of land in new countries , but with this disadvantage , that he must manure and clean Cost of carriage equal to the rent of land ...
... advantage equal to the present average rent of his land , placing him so far on an equality with the owners of land in new countries , but with this disadvantage , that he must manure and clean Cost of carriage equal to the rent of land ...
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... advantages , first , by alternating restorative and cleansing crops with corn ; and second , by regular distribution of labour throughout the year . The introduction of guano , nitrate of soda , and other ammoniacal and phosphatic ...
... advantages , first , by alternating restorative and cleansing crops with corn ; and second , by regular distribution of labour throughout the year . The introduction of guano , nitrate of soda , and other ammoniacal and phosphatic ...
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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...