The Landed Interest and the Supply of FoodCassell, Petter, Galpin, 1880 - 184 pages |
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Page ix
... Natural Fertility and of an average Soil unmanured and specially manured - Plants which predominate in uncultivated Land ix PAGE 32-39 CHAPTER IV . Distribution of Landed Property . Tendency to Diminution in Number of small Es- tates ...
... Natural Fertility and of an average Soil unmanured and specially manured - Plants which predominate in uncultivated Land ix PAGE 32-39 CHAPTER IV . Distribution of Landed Property . Tendency to Diminution in Number of small Es- tates ...
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... natural advantage nothing average ox . can deprive him . The proportion in which the people of this country are dependent for their principal articles of food and clothing on home and foreign supply was the subject of an inquiry by me ...
... natural advantage nothing average ox . can deprive him . The proportion in which the people of this country are dependent for their principal articles of food and clothing on home and foreign supply was the subject of an inquiry by me ...
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... natural pro- tection enjoyed by the British farmer in his proximity to the home market , as compared with the foreign farmer who seeks our market for his produce , thus gives him an advantage equal to the present average rent of his ...
... natural pro- tection enjoyed by the British farmer in his proximity to the home market , as compared with the foreign farmer who seeks our market for his produce , thus gives him an advantage equal to the present average rent of his ...
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... caused by a bad seed - time , is the natural result of low price ; but when the price rises , Likely to permanent check a rise in the price of wheat . Autumn culture power , with im- increased acreage quickly follows C 2.
... caused by a bad seed - time , is the natural result of low price ; but when the price rises , Likely to permanent check a rise in the price of wheat . Autumn culture power , with im- increased acreage quickly follows C 2.
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... natural produce may be doubled , and even trebled , by the continuous use of special manures . Seeing that nearly two - thirds of the cultivated area of this country , and all the uncultivated , are in grass , this series of experiments ...
... natural produce may be doubled , and even trebled , by the continuous use of special manures . Seeing that nearly two - thirds of the cultivated area of this country , and all the uncultivated , are in grass , this series of experiments ...
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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...