The Landed Interest and the Supply of FoodCassell, Petter, Galpin, 1880 - 184 pages |
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Page ix
... Owners of Agricul- tural Property - One - fifth of the Land held by the Peerage - Not cultivated by Owners but by Farmers - relative Extent of their Holdings in England and in Ireland - Trade and Colonies enable us to dispense with ...
... Owners of Agricul- tural Property - One - fifth of the Land held by the Peerage - Not cultivated by Owners but by Farmers - relative Extent of their Holdings in England and in Ireland - Trade and Colonies enable us to dispense with ...
Page x
... to overcome the incapacity of Owners to provide Capital for Improvement -State Loans for Land Improvement - Followed by Loans from Land Improvement Companies- CONTENTS . xi PAGE Total Amount so expended - Parliamentary X CONTENTS .
... to overcome the incapacity of Owners to provide Capital for Improvement -State Loans for Land Improvement - Followed by Loans from Land Improvement Companies- CONTENTS . xi PAGE Total Amount so expended - Parliamentary X CONTENTS .
Page xii
... Owners of Common Rights , equal to one - eighth of Value of the whole Land inclosed - Enfranchisement of Copyhold Lands and Buildings - Number com- pleted - Extinction of this objectionable kind of Tenure desirable - Mode of ...
... Owners of Common Rights , equal to one - eighth of Value of the whole Land inclosed - Enfranchisement of Copyhold Lands and Buildings - Number com- pleted - Extinction of this objectionable kind of Tenure desirable - Mode of ...
Page 7
... on an equality with the owners of land in new countries , but with this disadvantage , that he must manure and clean Cost of carriage equal to the rent of land in England . Agricul- tural statis- the worn out ground , while his.
... on an equality with the owners of land in new countries , but with this disadvantage , that he must manure and clean Cost of carriage equal to the rent of land in England . Agricul- tural statis- the worn out ground , while his.
Page 37
... owners . The profit to the stock - feeder beyond the rent paid to the landowner depends on the skill with which he conducts his business . The minimum of fer- tility may be exemplified by a bleak mountain pasture , where ten acres will ...
... owners . The profit to the stock - feeder beyond the rent paid to the landowner depends on the skill with which he conducts his business . The minimum of fer- tility may be exemplified by a bleak mountain pasture , where ten acres will ...
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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...