The Landed Interest and the Supply of FoodCassell, Petter, Galpin, 1880 - 184 pages |
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... important functions of Govern- ment is to take care that there shall be no hin- drance to the people supplying themselves with food and clothing , which are the first necessaries of life . And as these are , in one form or another ...
... important functions of Govern- ment is to take care that there shall be no hin- drance to the people supplying themselves with food and clothing , which are the first necessaries of life . And as these are , in one form or another ...
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... important gain by agricultural enterprise . The general extent of green crops has very gold crop . slightly altered in the ten years , potatoes alone showing some diminution . A large increase , however , in the proportion of mangold is ...
... important gain by agricultural enterprise . The general extent of green crops has very gold crop . slightly altered in the ten years , potatoes alone showing some diminution . A large increase , however , in the proportion of mangold is ...
Page 16
... important invention has made at these most critical periods , haytime and harvest . Next to it is the steam - plough , which , on heavy land and in large fields , especially where coal is moderate in cost , and water easily avail- able ...
... important invention has made at these most critical periods , haytime and harvest . Next to it is the steam - plough , which , on heavy land and in large fields , especially where coal is moderate in cost , and water easily avail- able ...
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... important series of experiments was commenced on grass- land , which , with very little change on each of the twenty plots , has been continued to the present time . The average of the past twenty years shows that the natural produce ...
... important series of experiments was commenced on grass- land , which , with very little change on each of the twenty plots , has been continued to the present time . The average of the past twenty years shows that the natural produce ...
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... importance . The land of the United Kingdom may be said to be now almost wholly cultivated by land , now tenant - farmers . The class of yeomen , or small their own in very small pro- portion to that of tenant- farmers . landowners ...
... importance . The land of the United Kingdom may be said to be now almost wholly cultivated by land , now tenant - farmers . The class of yeomen , or small their own in very small pro- portion to that of tenant- farmers . landowners ...
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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...