The Landed Interest and the Supply of FoodCassell, Petter, Galpin, 1880 - 184 pages |
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Page vii
... various Crops and Numbers of Live Stock- Quantities and Value of Home and Foreign Produce , respectively , consumed annually in this Country ... ... PAGE 1--14 CHAPTER II . Changes and Progress in Agriculture in Recent.
... various Crops and Numbers of Live Stock- Quantities and Value of Home and Foreign Produce , respectively , consumed annually in this Country ... ... PAGE 1--14 CHAPTER II . Changes and Progress in Agriculture in Recent.
Page xiii
... Annual Value - now placed under the general direction of Govern- ment Their Magnitude - compared with the Cost of the Civil Administration of the Country ... ... xiii PAGE 131-141 CHAPTER XI . The Future . Home Production of Bread and ...
... Annual Value - now placed under the general direction of Govern- ment Their Magnitude - compared with the Cost of the Civil Administration of the Country ... ... xiii PAGE 131-141 CHAPTER XI . The Future . Home Production of Bread and ...
Page xv
... since 1867 ... ... ... ... Table showing Quantities and Value of Foreign Grain and Live Stock , and Provisions imported , in each of the last twenty years .... 177 178 ... 179 ... ... ... PAGE 180 ... Table showing the Annual.
... since 1867 ... ... ... ... Table showing Quantities and Value of Foreign Grain and Live Stock , and Provisions imported , in each of the last twenty years .... 177 178 ... 179 ... ... ... PAGE 180 ... Table showing the Annual.
Page xvi
... Annual Yield of Wheat in the 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 ...
... Annual Yield of Wheat in the 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 ...
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... annual products of the earth , dependent for their abundance on the skill , capital , and labour employed in its cultivation , much of the safety and welfare of a country arises from the condi- tion of its agriculture . That of England ...
... annual products of the earth , dependent for their abundance on the skill , capital , and labour employed in its cultivation , much of the safety and welfare of a country arises from the condi- tion of its agriculture . That of England ...
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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...