The Landed Interest and the Supply of FoodCassell, Petter, Galpin, 1880 - 184 pages |
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... clothing , which are the first necessaries of life . And as these are , in one form or another , annual products of the earth , dependent for their abundance on the skill , capital , and labour employed in its cultivation , much of the ...
... clothing , which are the first necessaries of life . And as these are , in one form or another , annual products of the earth , dependent for their abundance on the skill , capital , and labour employed in its cultivation , much of the ...
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... clothing on home and foreign supply was the subject of an inquiry by me in 1868 , in a paper read to the Statistical Society . At that time I found the foreign supply to be in the proportion of one - fourth of the whole . In the ten ...
... clothing on home and foreign supply was the subject of an inquiry by me in 1868 , in a paper read to the Statistical Society . At that time I found the foreign supply to be in the proportion of one - fourth of the whole . In the ten ...
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... cloth , 5s . Wealth Creation . By AUGUSTUS MONGREDIEN . Crown 8vo , cloth , price 5s . Constitutional History and Political Development of the United States . By SIMON STERNE , of the New York Bar . 5s . The Life of the Right Hon ...
... cloth , 5s . Wealth Creation . By AUGUSTUS MONGREDIEN . Crown 8vo , cloth , price 5s . Constitutional History and Political Development of the United States . By SIMON STERNE , of the New York Bar . 5s . The Life of the Right Hon ...
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... cloth gilt , 3s . 6d . Modern Explorers . By THOMAS FROST . Illustrated . Cloth , 5s . A Parcel of Children . By OLIVE PATCH . With numerous Illustrations . Crown 4to , cloth gilt , gilt edges , 5s . Wild Animals and Birds . By Dr ...
... cloth gilt , 3s . 6d . Modern Explorers . By THOMAS FROST . Illustrated . Cloth , 5s . A Parcel of Children . By OLIVE PATCH . With numerous Illustrations . Crown 4to , cloth gilt , gilt edges , 5s . Wild Animals and Birds . By Dr ...
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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...