The Landed Interest and the Supply of FoodCassell, Petter, Galpin, 1880 - 184 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 23
Page x
... Position , Duties , and In- fluence Their Number , and the immense Capital Value of their Property - The Tenant - farmers , the proportional Extent of their Holdings , their Numbers and Capital - the Labourers - Condi- tion now better ...
... Position , Duties , and In- fluence Their Number , and the immense Capital Value of their Property - The Tenant - farmers , the proportional Extent of their Holdings , their Numbers and Capital - the Labourers - Condi- tion now better ...
Page xiv
... Position likely soon to be improved PAGE 142-156 CHAPTER XII . Agricultural Prospects . The Bad Harvest of 1879 - Great Agricultural De- pression - Estimated Loss sustained by British CONTENTS . Wheat Growers - Stimulus given to ...
... Position likely soon to be improved PAGE 142-156 CHAPTER XII . Agricultural Prospects . The Bad Harvest of 1879 - Great Agricultural De- pression - Estimated Loss sustained by British CONTENTS . Wheat Growers - Stimulus given to ...
Page 12
... position of general progress and prosperity greater than has ever been previously experienced in that portion of the United Kingdom . The extent of land under the various crops in the United Kingdom in 1879 was , in wheat , 3,056,000 ...
... position of general progress and prosperity greater than has ever been previously experienced in that portion of the United Kingdom . The extent of land under the various crops in the United Kingdom in 1879 was , in wheat , 3,056,000 ...
Page 15
... position in regard to competition or labour , have forced on the British farmer . With a few exceptions the change will be found rather in the more general diffusion of a knowledge of good principles and practice than in any con ...
... position in regard to competition or labour , have forced on the British farmer . With a few exceptions the change will be found rather in the more general diffusion of a knowledge of good principles and practice than in any con ...
Page 45
... land is the great political question , while in Great Britain it has ceased to have much prominence . This country , from its insular position and extent of and Trade and the great resources it possesses in minerals of.
... land is the great political question , while in Great Britain it has ceased to have much prominence . This country , from its insular position and extent of and Trade and the great resources it possesses in minerals of.
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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
Popular passages
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...