The Landed Interest and the Supply of FoodCassell, Petter, Galpin, 1880 - 184 pages |
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... the compara- tively high price of which pays for long transport . Fresh mea from America may pre- vent exces- sive rise of a price in Europe The steam - ships in which the meat is carried have chambers fitted in such B 2.
... the compara- tively high price of which pays for long transport . Fresh mea from America may pre- vent exces- sive rise of a price in Europe The steam - ships in which the meat is carried have chambers fitted in such B 2.
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Sir James Caird. which the meat is carried have chambers fitted in such a manner that the meat can be kept fresh during the voyage by currents of cooled air . From Australia and South America the same trade has made a successful ...
Sir James Caird. which the meat is carried have chambers fitted in such a manner that the meat can be kept fresh during the voyage by currents of cooled air . From Australia and South America the same trade has made a successful ...
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... carried out for the first time in 1867 , the collection of the returns being made by the officers of the Inland Revenue , and their arrangement for publication by the Statistical Department of the Board of Trade . The expe- rience ...
... carried out for the first time in 1867 , the collection of the returns being made by the officers of the Inland Revenue , and their arrangement for publication by the Statistical Department of the Board of Trade . The expe- rience ...
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... carried to and spread upon the ground at one - fiftieth of the labour . The proof of this , in Mr. Lawes ' ex- Great value to periments , has been before the country for more British agriculture than thirty years , and yet it is only ...
... carried to and spread upon the ground at one - fiftieth of the labour . The proof of this , in Mr. Lawes ' ex- Great value to periments , has been before the country for more British agriculture than thirty years , and yet it is only ...
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... carried out investigations on the feeding of live stock , and on the different values of their food , both as affecting the processes of fattening and the quality and value of the manure . Woburn ments . The Royal Agricultural Society ...
... carried out investigations on the feeding of live stock , and on the different values of their food , both as affecting the processes of fattening and the quality and value of the manure . Woburn ments . The Royal Agricultural Society ...
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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...