The Landed Interest and the Supply of FoodCassell, Petter, Galpin, 1880 - 184 pages |
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... Crops - Mr . Lawes ' Experiments : their Value and some of their special Lessons— The Experiments at Woburn ... Crops . Extent of Country and Proportion of various Crops -as influenced by Climate , Situation , and Rain- 1 CONTENTS . fall ...
... Crops - Mr . Lawes ' Experiments : their Value and some of their special Lessons— The Experiments at Woburn ... Crops . Extent of Country and Proportion of various Crops -as influenced by Climate , Situation , and Rain- 1 CONTENTS . fall ...
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... - Extent of the various Crops and Numbers of Live Stock- Quantities and Value of Home and Foreign Produce , respectively , consumed annually in this Country ... ... PAGE 1--14 CHAPTER II . Changes and Progress in Agriculture in Recent.
... - Extent of the various Crops and Numbers of Live Stock- Quantities and Value of Home and Foreign Produce , respectively , consumed annually in this Country ... ... PAGE 1--14 CHAPTER II . Changes and Progress in Agriculture in Recent.
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... Crops - Mr . Lawes ' Experiments : their Value and some of their special Lessons— The Experiments at Woburn ... Crops . Extent of Country and Proportion of various Crops —as influenced by Climate , Situation , and Rain- CONTENTS . fall ...
... Crops - Mr . Lawes ' Experiments : their Value and some of their special Lessons— The Experiments at Woburn ... Crops . Extent of Country and Proportion of various Crops —as influenced by Climate , Situation , and Rain- CONTENTS . fall ...
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Sir James Caird. CONTENTS . fall - Weight and relative Value of Corn - crops -Examples of Soils of greatest and least Natural Fertility and of an average Soil unmanured and specially manured - Plants which predominate in uncultivated ...
Sir James Caird. CONTENTS . fall - Weight and relative Value of Corn - crops -Examples of Soils of greatest and least Natural Fertility and of an average Soil unmanured and specially manured - Plants which predominate in uncultivated ...
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... Crops and Number of Live - stock in the United Kingdom , in each year since 1867 ... ... ... ... Table showing Quantities and Value of Foreign Grain and Live Stock , and Provisions imported , in each of the last twenty years .... 177 ...
... Crops and Number of Live - stock in the United Kingdom , in each year since 1867 ... ... ... ... Table showing Quantities and Value of Foreign Grain and Live Stock , and Provisions imported , in each of the last twenty years .... 177 ...
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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...