The Landed Interest and the Supply of FoodCassell, Petter, Galpin, 1880 - 184 pages |
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Page x
... Period , comparing their Wages with the Price of Bread -Each of the three Classes constantly recruited by changes of Property and Employment - Re- sult of the System , compared with that of other Countries , shows larger Returns at less ...
... Period , comparing their Wages with the Price of Bread -Each of the three Classes constantly recruited by changes of Property and Employment - Re- sult of the System , compared with that of other Countries , shows larger Returns at less ...
Page xv
... periods during the last hundred years ... Table showing Acreage of Crops and Number of Live - stock in the United Kingdom , in each year since 1867 ... ... ... ... Table showing Quantities and Value of Foreign Grain and Live Stock , and ...
... periods during the last hundred years ... Table showing Acreage of Crops and Number of Live - stock in the United Kingdom , in each year since 1867 ... ... ... ... Table showing Quantities and Value of Foreign Grain and Live Stock , and ...
Page xvi
... periods of ten years each Description of the " Fertile Belt " of the North- West Territory of Canada , published by Mr. Caird , in 1859 , with Analysis of Prairie Soils as described by Professor Voelcker 181 THE LANDED INTEREST ...
... periods of ten years each Description of the " Fertile Belt " of the North- West Territory of Canada , published by Mr. Caird , in 1859 , with Analysis of Prairie Soils as described by Professor Voelcker 181 THE LANDED INTEREST ...
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... 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 used in the pro- duction of beer and spirits . The imports of ...
... 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 used in the pro- duction of beer and spirits . The imports of ...
Page 9
... by more than 10 per cent . The permanent 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.
... by more than 10 per cent . The permanent 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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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...