The Landed Interest and the Supply of FoodCassell, Petter, Galpin, 1880 - 184 pages |
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... considerable quantity . The cost of transporting live animals from any great distance must obviously present a very great difficulty . And a further and most serious objection arose , in regard to those from nearer European ports , in ...
... considerable quantity . The cost of transporting live animals from any great distance must obviously present a very great difficulty . And a further and most serious objection arose , in regard to those from nearer European ports , in ...
Page 9
... considerable change has occurred during the past ten years in the production of wheat in Great Britain . It has diminished in England , and largely in Scotland and Ireland , the diminution amounting to one fourth of its area since 1869 ...
... considerable change has occurred during the past ten years in the production of wheat in Great Britain . It has diminished in England , and largely in Scotland and Ireland , the diminution amounting to one fourth of its area since 1869 ...
Page 10
... considerable extent of land is yearly taken from cultivation by the increase of towns and the construction of new railroads , this shows an important gain by agricultural enterprise . The general extent of green crops has very gold crop ...
... considerable extent of land is yearly taken from cultivation by the increase of towns and the construction of new railroads , this shows an important gain by agricultural enterprise . The general extent of green crops has very gold crop ...
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... considerable decline in potatoes , the tempting but precarious crop upon which that country has hitherto too much relied , are evident signs of prudence and prosperity . In the same period , though there has been a reduction in the ...
... considerable decline in potatoes , the tempting but precarious crop upon which that country has hitherto too much relied , are evident signs of prudence and prosperity . In the same period , though there has been a reduction in the ...
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... considerable permanent rise in the price of wheat . A de- cline in the acreage under wheat , when not caused by a bad seed - time , is the natural result of low price ; but when the price rises , Likely to permanent check a rise in the ...
... considerable permanent rise in the price of wheat . A de- cline in the acreage under wheat , when not caused by a bad seed - time , is the natural result of low price ; but when the price rises , Likely to permanent check a rise in the ...
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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 diminution districts drainage England English enterprise equal estates expenditure extent farmer farms favourable fertility FRANK DICKSEE Galpin & Co.'s 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 supply 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...