The Landed Interest and the Supply of FoodCassell, Petter, Galpin, 1880 - 184 pages |
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Page vii
... Meat - will be checked by Importations from America - Proportion of Home and Foreign Supply of Food in this Country - England now chiefly dependent on Foreign Supplies for further Increase - Cost of Carriage equal to the Rent of Land ...
... Meat - will be checked by Importations from America - Proportion of Home and Foreign Supply of Food in this Country - England now chiefly dependent on Foreign Supplies for further Increase - Cost of Carriage equal to the Rent of Land ...
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 ,
Page xv
... Meat and Provisions - The Prairie Land Fresh and Unexhausted — Americans expect to be able to Control European Markets - Visit of British Farm Delegates to Manitoba ― Their Opinion of its High Fertility - Wheat expected to be placed in ...
... Meat and Provisions - The Prairie Land Fresh and Unexhausted — Americans expect to be able to Control European Markets - Visit of British Farm Delegates to Manitoba ― Their Opinion of its High Fertility - Wheat expected to be placed in ...
Page 2
... meat , fish , poultry , eggs , butter , and cheese , which in that period has risen from an annual value of five and a half to thirty - seven millions sterling . More than half the farinaceous articles imported , other than wheat , are ...
... meat , fish , poultry , eggs , butter , and cheese , which in that period has risen from an annual value of five and a half to thirty - seven millions sterling . More than half the farinaceous articles imported , other than wheat , are ...
Page 3
... meat being many times more valuable than a pound of corn . All kinds of salted meat were expected , and came ; but fresh meat ( except as live animals ) , from its perishable nature , was not anticipated in any considerable quantity ...
... meat being many times more valuable than a pound of corn . All kinds of salted meat were expected , and came ; but fresh meat ( except as live animals ) , from its perishable nature , was not anticipated in any considerable quantity ...
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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...