The Landed Interest and the Supply of FoodCassell, Petter, Galpin, 1880 - 184 pages |
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... Conditions on which the Farms of the Crown are let - Charity Estates , their Extent and Annual Value - now placed under the general direction of Govern- ment Their Magnitude - compared with the Cost of the Civil Administration of the ...
... Conditions on which the Farms of the Crown are let - Charity Estates , their Extent and Annual Value - now placed under the general direction of Govern- ment Their Magnitude - compared with the Cost of the Civil Administration of the ...
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... condition . Should this plan , in addition to the growing importation of live animals , prove safe and suc- cessful , we shall have the vast prairies of America , North and South , and the rich grazings of Australia added to our own ...
... condition . Should this plan , in addition to the growing importation of live animals , prove safe and suc- cessful , we shall have the vast prairies of America , North and South , and the rich grazings of Australia added to our own ...
Page 17
... is clean and in high condition and can bear the application of special manure , and where the agriculturist is free to follow a C use of power in tion of Successive corn - crops . Use to which this might be put in time of.
... is clean and in high condition and can bear the application of special manure , and where the agriculturist is free to follow a C use of power in tion of Successive corn - crops . Use to which this might be put in time of.
Page 49
... condition of the people , the incidence of the poor - rates , which had previously been placed wholly on the tenant - occupier , was divided equally between him and the landowner . In fifteen years , emigration and the sale of encum ...
... condition of the people , the incidence of the poor - rates , which had previously been placed wholly on the tenant - occupier , was divided equally between him and the landowner . In fifteen years , emigration and the sale of encum ...
Page 59
... condition of their live - stock . They are brought into the closest relations with their labourers , and although , occasionally , feelings of keen antagonism have arisen , there is generally a very friendly understanding between them ...
... condition of their live - stock . They are brought into the closest relations with their labourers , and although , occasionally , feelings of keen antagonism have arisen , there is generally a very friendly understanding between them ...
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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...