The Landed Interest and the Supply of FoodCassell, Petter, Galpin, 1880 - 184 pages |
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Page 4
... pastures as new sources of supply . This will be a great benefit to the consumers of meat in this country , but probably more by preventing a further rapid rise in the price of meat than by effecting a heavy reduction upon it . For the ...
... pastures as new sources of supply . This will be a great benefit to the consumers of meat in this country , but probably more by preventing a further rapid rise in the price of meat than by effecting a heavy reduction upon it . For the ...
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... pasture during the same Increase of period has increased steadily no doubt from the increased cost of labour and the gradual rise pasture . Increase of the man- in the value of live stock.
... pasture during the same Increase of period has increased steadily no doubt from the increased cost of labour and the gradual rise pasture . Increase of the man- in the value of live stock.
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... pasture , 24,400,000 acres ( besides mountain pastures and wastes ) ; woods and plantations , 2,511,000 . The number of live - stock of various kinds in 1879 was , of horses , 2,834,000 ; cattle , 9,993,000 ; sheep , 32,257,000 ; pigs ...
... pasture , 24,400,000 acres ( besides mountain pastures and wastes ) ; woods and plantations , 2,511,000 . The number of live - stock of various kinds in 1879 was , of horses , 2,834,000 ; cattle , 9,993,000 ; sheep , 32,257,000 ; pigs ...
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... pasture - lands , ready in case of need . It is a power , moreover , that , independent of foreign supply , will check any considerable permanent rise in the price of wheat . A de- cline in the acreage under wheat , when not caused by a ...
... pasture - lands , ready in case of need . It is a power , moreover , that , independent of foreign supply , will check any considerable permanent rise in the price of wheat . A de- cline in the acreage under wheat , when not caused by a ...
Page 32
... pasture and waste , and 50,000,000 in crops , meadows , permanent pasture , and woods and forests . Of the crops , one - fourth is in various kinds of corn , one - eighth in green crops , one - eighth in grass under rotation , and one ...
... pasture and waste , and 50,000,000 in crops , meadows , permanent pasture , and woods and forests . Of the crops , one - fourth is in various kinds of corn , one - eighth in green crops , one - eighth in grass under rotation , and one ...
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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...