The Landed Interest and the Supply of FoodCassell, Petter, Galpin, 1880 - 184 pages |
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... success . in value of meat , the compara- tively high price of which pays for long transport . Fresh mea from America may pre- vent exces- sive rise of a price in Europe The steam - ships in which the meat is carried have chambers ...
... success . in value of meat , the compara- tively high price of which pays for long transport . Fresh mea from America may pre- vent exces- sive rise of a price in Europe The steam - ships in which the meat is carried have chambers ...
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... successful beginning , a new French cooling process , by which the temperature of the air can be reduced twenty degrees below zero ( freezing without the use of ice ) , having been introduced . Large shipments have thus been ...
... successful beginning , a new French cooling process , by which the temperature of the air can be reduced twenty degrees below zero ( freezing without the use of ice ) , having been introduced . Large shipments have thus been ...
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... success on many soils than wheat ; and where there is reason to suppose that a second crop of wheat , however carefully the ground may have been managed and manured , may be likely to fail , barley may , with great probability , be ...
... success on many soils than wheat ; and where there is reason to suppose that a second crop of wheat , however carefully the ground may have been managed and manured , may be likely to fail , barley may , with great probability , be ...
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... success- fully carried out in Germany and Hungary . It would eventually cost the Government nothing if successful , as in thirty - five years from the time of the advance being made both principal and interest would be repaid . But this ...
... success- fully carried out in Germany and Hungary . It would eventually cost the Government nothing if successful , as in thirty - five years from the time of the advance being made both principal and interest would be repaid . But this ...
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... success of their cultivation , or in the symmetry and condition of their live - stock . They are brought into the closest relations with their labourers , and although , occasionally , feelings of keen antagonism have arisen , there is ...
... success of their cultivation , or in the symmetry and condition of their live - stock . They are brought into the closest relations with their labourers , and although , occasionally , feelings of keen antagonism have arisen , there is ...
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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...