The Landed Interest and the Supply of FoodCassell, Petter, Galpin, 1880 - 184 pages |
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... less Cost- Special Features of System in England - in Scot- land — in Ireland - Tenancy - at - will in England— Leases in Scotland - Middlemen in Ireland , and the Result PAGE 56-78 CHAPTER VI . Land Improvement . Hindrances by ...
... less Cost- Special Features of System in England - in Scot- land — in Ireland - Tenancy - at - will in England— Leases in Scotland - Middlemen in Ireland , and the Result PAGE 56-78 CHAPTER VI . Land Improvement . Hindrances by ...
Page xiii
... PAGE 131-141 CHAPTER XI . The Future . Home Production of Bread and Meat limited- Country becoming less of a Farm and more of a Garden - Population , at Present Rate of Increase , will in Twenty Years be Forty Millions - causing ,
... PAGE 131-141 CHAPTER XI . The Future . Home Production of Bread and Meat limited- Country becoming less of a Farm and more of a Garden - Population , at Present Rate of Increase , will in Twenty Years be Forty Millions - causing ,
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... less , and often more , than 30s . Hay and straw are so bulky that they can only bear the cost of carriage from near Continental ports . Fresh meat from America and elsewhere , from the costly methods necessary to preserve it , will ...
... less , and often more , than 30s . Hay and straw are so bulky that they can only bear the cost of carriage from near Continental ports . Fresh meat from America and elsewhere , from the costly methods necessary to preserve it , will ...
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... less than one - half , there is an increase of 28 per cent . in barley , but a decrease of nearly 10 per cent . in oats . Potatoes have fallen 12 per cent . , while turnips have slightly increased . On the whole there has been a ...
... less than one - half , there is an increase of 28 per cent . in barley , but a decrease of nearly 10 per cent . in oats . Potatoes have fallen 12 per cent . , while turnips have slightly increased . On the whole there has been a ...
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... less friction furrow plough . in proportion than the single plough , is found to do the same work with one man and three horses as two single ploughs with two men and four horses . This is equal to a saving of 100 per cent . in man ...
... less friction furrow plough . in proportion than the single plough , is found to do the same work with one man and three horses as two single ploughs with two men and four horses . This is equal to a saving of 100 per cent . in man ...
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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...