The Landed Interest and the Supply of FoodCassell, Petter, Galpin, 1880 - 184 pages |
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... ment — The Inclosure Commission the only State Department connected with the Land - Its various Functions - Main Drainage Commissions for Control of Floods - These beneficial where not permitted to remain too long stagnant- Great ...
... ment — The Inclosure Commission the only State Department connected with the Land - Its various Functions - Main Drainage Commissions for Control of Floods - These beneficial where not permitted to remain too long stagnant- Great ...
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... ment Their Magnitude - compared with the Cost of the Civil Administration of the Country ... ... 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 ...
... ment Their Magnitude - compared with the Cost of the Civil Administration of the Country ... ... 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 ...
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... 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 , annual products of the earth ...
... 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 , annual products of the earth ...
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... ment . The maximum of fertility in the natural state is a rich pasture capable of fattening an ox and two sheep on an acre . Such soils are exceptional , though in most counties they are to be met with . The Pawlet Hams in Somer ...
... ment . The maximum of fertility in the natural state is a rich pasture capable of fattening an ox and two sheep on an acre . Such soils are exceptional , though in most counties they are to be met with . The Pawlet Hams in Somer ...
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... ment is a return of three times the weight of corn and four times the weight of straw , for an expenditure in manure which leaves a profit of 100 per cent . on its cost . In both WITH AND WITHOUT Manure . 39 cases the wheat is 38 THE ...
... ment is a return of three times the weight of corn and four times the weight of straw , for an expenditure in manure which leaves a profit of 100 per cent . on its cost . In both WITH AND WITHOUT Manure . 39 cases the wheat is 38 THE ...
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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...