The Landed Interest and the Supply of FoodCassell, Petter, Galpin, 1880 - 184 pages |
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Page x
... Result ... PAGE 56-78 CHAPTER VI . Land Improvement . Hindrances by Settlements and Incumbrances— Expedients adopted to overcome the incapacity of Owners to provide Capital for Improvement -State Loans for Land Improvement - Followed by ...
... Result ... PAGE 56-78 CHAPTER VI . Land Improvement . Hindrances by Settlements and Incumbrances— Expedients adopted to overcome the incapacity of Owners to provide Capital for Improvement -State Loans for Land Improvement - Followed by ...
Page xi
... Results - General Testimony to their remunera- rative Character - Land Drainage the most remu- nerative Improvement - Greater Caution required in Expenditure on Buildings - Labourers ' Dwell- ings , judiciously executed and placed , as ...
... Results - General Testimony to their remunera- rative Character - Land Drainage the most remu- nerative Improvement - Greater Caution required in Expenditure on Buildings - Labourers ' Dwell- ings , judiciously executed and placed , as ...
Page xii
... Results -Quality and Occupation of Persons to whom Waste Lands passed - Extent of Public Roads constructed and Value of Lands devoted to Public Objects , at the Cost of the Owners of Common Rights , equal to one - eighth of Value of the ...
... Results -Quality and Occupation of Persons to whom Waste Lands passed - Extent of Public Roads constructed and Value of Lands devoted to Public Objects , at the Cost of the Owners of Common Rights , equal to one - eighth of Value of the ...
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... corresponding increase in the foreign sup- ply ; the result of which is that we now receive Proportion of home and foreign supply of food and clothing in the United Kingdom . England now chiefly our bread in smaller proportion from our.
... corresponding increase in the foreign sup- ply ; the result of which is that we now receive Proportion of home and foreign supply of food and clothing in the United Kingdom . England now chiefly our bread in smaller proportion from our.
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... wheat , when not caused by a bad seed - time , is the natural result of low price ; but when the price rises , Likely to permanent check a rise in the price of wheat . Autumn culture power , with im- increased acreage quickly follows C 2.
... wheat , when not caused by a bad seed - time , is the natural result of low price ; but when the price rises , Likely to permanent check a rise in the price of wheat . Autumn culture power , with im- increased acreage quickly follows C 2.
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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...