The Landed Interest and the Supply of FoodCassell, Petter, Galpin, 1880 - 184 pages |
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Page ix
... Tenant - farmers as part Owners of Agricul- tural Property - One - fifth of the Land held by the Peerage - Not cultivated by Owners but by Farmers - relative Extent of their Holdings in England and in Ireland - Trade and Colonies enable ...
... Tenant - farmers as part Owners of Agricul- tural Property - One - fifth of the Land held by the Peerage - Not cultivated by Owners but by Farmers - relative Extent of their Holdings in England and in Ireland - Trade and Colonies enable ...
Page x
... Tenant - farmers , the proportional Extent of their Holdings , their Numbers and Capital - the Labourers - Condi- tion now better than at any previous Period , comparing their Wages with the Price of Bread -Each of the three Classes ...
... Tenant - farmers , the proportional Extent of their Holdings , their Numbers and Capital - the Labourers - Condi- tion now better than at any previous Period , comparing their Wages with the Price of Bread -Each of the three Classes ...
Page xi
... Tenant's Capital required — Admir- able Principle of Drainage Loans - Extended Powers of Sale in the case of Settled Estates desirable Settlements should be limited to Lives in being 96-110 CHAPTER VIII . The Government in its ...
... Tenant's Capital required — Admir- able Principle of Drainage Loans - Extended Powers of Sale in the case of Settled Estates desirable Settlements should be limited to Lives in being 96-110 CHAPTER VIII . The Government in its ...
Page xiv
... Tenant- farmer more doubtful - His Duty to protect him- self by the security of a definite and lengthened Term -- Either by Purchase of his Farm or by Lease - Good Understandings not likely to resist the Increasing Pressure of Home and ...
... Tenant- farmer more doubtful - His Duty to protect him- self by the security of a definite and lengthened Term -- Either by Purchase of his Farm or by Lease - Good Understandings not likely to resist the Increasing Pressure of Home and ...
Page 30
... agricultural depression , when I stated that I believed the landlords and tenants of England possessed energy and capacity sufficient to meet and adapt themselves RISE IN VALUE of Live - STOCK AND LAND . 30 THE LANDED INTEREST .
... agricultural depression , when I stated that I believed the landlords and tenants of England possessed energy and capacity sufficient to meet and adapt themselves RISE IN VALUE of Live - STOCK AND LAND . 30 THE LANDED INTEREST .
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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...