The Landed Interest and the Supply of FoodCassell, Petter, Galpin, 1880 - 184 pages |
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Page viii
... Practice , and better Breeds of Stock , than in the introduction of New Systems - Greatest Change caused by the Prosperity of the Country and the Rise in the Value of Animal Food - vast consequent Increase in the Capital Value of Live ...
... Practice , and better Breeds of Stock , than in the introduction of New Systems - Greatest Change caused by the Prosperity of the Country and the Rise in the Value of Animal Food - vast consequent Increase in the Capital Value of Live ...
Page viii
... Practice , and better Breeds of Stock , than in the introduction of New Systems - Greatest Change caused by the Prosperity of the Country and the Rise in the Value of Animal Food - vast consequent Increase in the Capital Value of Live ...
... Practice , and better Breeds of Stock , than in the introduction of New Systems - Greatest Change caused by the Prosperity of the Country and the Rise in the Value of Animal Food - vast consequent Increase in the Capital Value of Live ...
Page 15
... practice which science or art , or the circumstances of his 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 ...
... practice which science or art , or the circumstances of his 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 ...
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Sir James Caird. NITRATES AND PHOSPHAtes . 21 and circumstances render such a practice neces- sary . The old plan of relying on the resources of the farm by depending on the manure made upon it , while the corn and meat were sold away ...
Sir James Caird. NITRATES AND PHOSPHAtes . 21 and circumstances render such a practice neces- sary . The old plan of relying on the resources of the farm by depending on the manure made upon it , while the corn and meat were sold away ...
Page 27
... practice of the last quarter of a century . The practices , well and better live - stock , than in the intro- present system of drainage was previously understood . Bones , guano , and nitrate of soda duction of were fully appreciated ...
... practice of the last quarter of a century . The practices , well and better live - stock , than in the intro- present system of drainage was previously understood . Bones , guano , and nitrate of soda duction of were fully appreciated ...
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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...