The Landed Interest and the Supply of FoodCassell, Petter, Galpin, 1880 - 184 pages |
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Page xi
... able Principle of Drainage Loans - Extended Powers of Sale in the case of Settled Estates desirable Settlements should be limited to Lives in being 96-110 CHAPTER VIII . The Government in its Connection with Agriculture.
... able Principle of Drainage Loans - Extended Powers of Sale in the case of Settled Estates desirable Settlements should be limited to Lives in being 96-110 CHAPTER VIII . The Government in its Connection with Agriculture.
Page xiii
... 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 Country ... ... xiii PAGE 131-141 CHAPTER XI . The Future ...
... 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 Country ... ... xiii PAGE 131-141 CHAPTER XI . The Future ...
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... estate in Hertfordshire , the results of which have been annually pub- lished , and the farm itself , with every detail of the work , has been laid open to public in- spection and criticism . Among other valuable Lawes ' ex- periments ...
... estate in Hertfordshire , the results of which have been annually pub- lished , and the farm itself , with every detail of the work , has been laid open to public in- spection and criticism . Among other valuable Lawes ' ex- periments ...
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... estates . growing wealth of the country , constantly tend- ing to a reduction in the number of small estates . This tendency is further promoted by the law , which permits entails and settlements , thus hindering the natural sale of ...
... estates . growing wealth of the country , constantly tend- ing to a reduction in the number of small estates . This tendency is further promoted by the law , which permits entails and settlements , thus hindering the natural sale of ...
Page 49
... Estates Act ' was passed , to sell off the lands of those proprietors whose encumbrances had overwhelmed them , and substitute others more capable of fulfilling the duties of landowners . In a few years land to the value of twenty ...
... Estates Act ' was passed , to sell off the lands of those proprietors whose encumbrances had overwhelmed them , and substitute others more capable of fulfilling the duties of landowners . In a few years land to the value of twenty ...
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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...