The Landed Interest and the Supply of FoodCassell, Petter, Galpin, 1880 - 184 pages |
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Page viii
... Capital Value of Live Stock and Landed Property PAGE 15-31 CHAPTER III . Soil , Climate , and Crops . Extent of Country and Proportion of various Crops -as influenced by Climate , Situation , and Rain- 1 CONTENTS . fall - Weight and ...
... Capital Value of Live Stock and Landed Property PAGE 15-31 CHAPTER III . Soil , Climate , and Crops . Extent of Country and Proportion of various Crops -as influenced by Climate , Situation , and Rain- 1 CONTENTS . fall - Weight and ...
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... Capital Value of Live Stock and Landed Property ... PAGE 15-31 CHAPTER III . Soil , Climate , and Crops . Extent of Country and Proportion of various Crops —as influenced by Climate , Situation , and Rain- CONTENTS . fall - Weight and ...
... Capital Value of Live Stock and Landed Property ... PAGE 15-31 CHAPTER III . Soil , Climate , and Crops . Extent of Country and Proportion of various Crops —as influenced by Climate , Situation , and Rain- CONTENTS . fall - Weight and ...
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... Capital Value of their Property - The Tenant - farmers , the proportional Extent of their Holdings , their Numbers and Capital - the Labourers - Condi- tion now better than at any previous Period , comparing their Wages with the Price ...
... Capital Value of their Property - The Tenant - farmers , the proportional Extent of their Holdings , their Numbers and Capital - the Labourers - Condi- tion now better than at any previous Period , comparing their Wages with the Price ...
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... Capital -Better Cottages wanted rather than more of them - Examples of remunerative Expenditure 79-95 CHAPTER VII . Recent Rise in the Value of Land . Great Rise in the Value of Land since the Repeal of the Corn Laws - only partly due ...
... Capital -Better Cottages wanted rather than more of them - Examples of remunerative Expenditure 79-95 CHAPTER VII . Recent Rise in the Value of Land . Great Rise in the Value of Land since the Repeal of the Corn Laws - only partly due ...
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... 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 has attained an exceptionally high productiveness . The best of our land has ...
... 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 has attained an exceptionally high productiveness . The best of our land has ...
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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...