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... Gardens , hops , flax , & c . , Wood , Total , Hectares . 8,000,000 3,000,000 2,000,000 1,000,000 • 2,500,000 500,000 1,800,000 200,000 1,000,000 20,000,000 * In France we have also eleven millions of hectares un- cultivated out of ...
... Gardens , hops , flax , & c . , Wood , Total , Hectares . 8,000,000 3,000,000 2,000,000 1,000,000 • 2,500,000 500,000 1,800,000 200,000 1,000,000 20,000,000 * In France we have also eleven millions of hectares un- cultivated out of ...
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... Gardens and orchards occupy a relatively much less space in England than in France , and their produce is much inferior in value to ours . The English are not great consumers of fruit and vegetables , and they are right ; for both the ...
... Gardens and orchards occupy a relatively much less space in England than in France , and their produce is much inferior in value to ours . The English are not great consumers of fruit and vegetables , and they are right ; for both the ...
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... gardens , the most esteemed vineyards , the lands bearing flax , hops , mulberry , tobacco , and madder , the gross produce of which rises as high as 1000 , 2000 , 3000 francs , and even more ; but striking out these two extremes , we ...
... gardens , the most esteemed vineyards , the lands bearing flax , hops , mulberry , tobacco , and madder , the gross produce of which rises as high as 1000 , 2000 , 3000 francs , and even more ; but striking out these two extremes , we ...
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... gardens , close to a railway and town , in a picturesque country , & c . " In the offices they also show a plan of the land , and a tolerably well - executed view of the house and offices . It is always a pretty building , almost new ...
... gardens , close to a railway and town , in a picturesque country , & c . " In the offices they also show a plan of the land , and a tolerably well - executed view of the house and offices . It is always a pretty building , almost new ...
Side 100
... garden . It is farmed on an average at from £ 4 to £ 5 per acre , and in the environs of St Heliers as high as £ 8 to £ 12 . In spite of these enormous rents , the farmers live in a state of comparative comfort upon an extent of ground ...
... garden . It is farmed on an average at from £ 4 to £ 5 per acre , and in the environs of St Heliers as high as £ 8 to £ 12 . In spite of these enormous rents , the farmers live in a state of comparative comfort upon an extent of ground ...
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acres agriculture agriculturists amount animals Arthur Young average Bakewell barley breed British British Isles capital cattle cause cent cereals CHAPTER corn cows crops cultivation Dishley districts divided Duke Edition England proper equal expense extent farmers fattening favourable Fcap FELICIA HEMANS fertile fifty five Foolscap 8vo forest francs per hectare French gardens give grass greater hectolitres Highlands horses immense improved increase Ireland Irish island KEITH JOHNSTON kind labour Lancashire land large farming large property leases least less Lord Lowlands manufactures manure means meat milk millions of hectares mountains natural nearly neighbours oats owing pasture population portion possess present produce profit proprietors prosperity quantity race reckoned rent revolution rural economy scarcely Scotch Scotland sheep SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON superior Sutherlandshire Sutton Waldron tenant thousand acres tion towns turnips United Kingdom vegetable vols wages wealth wheat whole wool
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