The Landed Interest and the Supply of FoodCassell, Petter, Galpin, 1880 - 184 pages |
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Page xi
... Buildings - Labourers ' Dwell- ings , judiciously executed and placed , as remune- rative as any other Outlay of Landowner's Capital -Better Cottages wanted rather than more of them - Examples of remunerative Expenditure 79-95 CHAPTER ...
... Buildings - Labourers ' Dwell- ings , judiciously executed and placed , as remune- rative as any other Outlay of Landowner's Capital -Better Cottages wanted rather than more of them - Examples of remunerative Expenditure 79-95 CHAPTER ...
Page xii
... Enfranchisement of Copyhold Lands and Buildings - Number com- pleted - Extinction of this objectionable kind of Tenure desirable - Mode of accomplishing this 120-130 CONTENTS . CHAPTER X. Church , Crown , and Charity xii CONTENTS .
... Enfranchisement of Copyhold Lands and Buildings - Number com- pleted - Extinction of this objectionable kind of Tenure desirable - Mode of accomplishing this 120-130 CONTENTS . CHAPTER X. Church , Crown , and Charity xii CONTENTS .
Page 12
... building of farmhouses and labourers ' cottages , has been greatly increasing , year by of that year , the state of agriculture in Ireland , chiefly owing to the high price of live - stock , and the increasing demand for store animals ...
... building of farmhouses and labourers ' cottages , has been greatly increasing , year by of that year , the state of agriculture in Ireland , chiefly owing to the high price of live - stock , and the increasing demand for store animals ...
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... great liberality and public spirit , has undertaken the cost of these experiments , and has placed suitable land and buildings at the disposal of the Society , whose The Extension of land Council , under the guidance of Dr.
... great liberality and public spirit , has undertaken the cost of these experiments , and has placed suitable land and buildings at the disposal of the Society , whose The Extension of land Council , under the guidance of Dr.
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... buildings , and in the better of farm labourers ' cottages , and housing for live- stock . lodging of farm - labourers in more commodious cottages . And in regard to live - stock there has been a wider diffusion of the best breeds , and ...
... buildings , and in the better of farm labourers ' cottages , and housing for live- stock . lodging of farm - labourers in more commodious cottages . And in regard to live - stock there has been a wider diffusion of the best breeds , and ...
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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...