Essai sur l'économie rurale de l'Angleterre, de l'Écosse et de l'Irlande |
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... fact is , that English agriculture , taken as a whole , is at this day the first in the world ; and it is in the way of realising further progress . I design concisely to show its actual condition ; to point out the true causes of that ...
... fact is , that English agriculture , taken as a whole , is at this day the first in the world ; and it is in the way of realising further progress . I design concisely to show its actual condition ; to point out the true causes of that ...
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... fact , five only out of the eight millions of hectares in Ireland are culti- vated . * Deducting the north - west of France , which we have compared to England , and the middle and east to Scot- land , the south only remains for ...
... fact , five only out of the eight millions of hectares in Ireland are culti- vated . * Deducting the north - west of France , which we have compared to England , and the middle and east to Scot- land , the south only remains for ...
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... fact - England , even previous to 1848 , was better cultivated and more productive over an equal surface , than the north - west of France . The Lowlands of Scotland at least rivalled the east ; and even Ireland , poor as it is , was ...
... fact - England , even previous to 1848 , was better cultivated and more productive over an equal surface , than the north - west of France . The Lowlands of Scotland at least rivalled the east ; and even Ireland , poor as it is , was ...
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... fact is , that while the indigenous sheep gave barely a few pounds of coarse wool , the merino fleece gave double or treble the weight of fine wool of greater value . This profit was considerable ; it appeared sufficient to our farmers ...
... fact is , that while the indigenous sheep gave barely a few pounds of coarse wool , the merino fleece gave double or treble the weight of fine wool of greater value . This profit was considerable ; it appeared sufficient to our farmers ...
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... facts . I have rather reduced than added to the results given by the statistics in the estimate relating to England , and on the other hand rather increased those as to France . David Low , the learned Professor of Agriculture in the ...
... facts . I have rather reduced than added to the results given by the statistics in the estimate relating to England , and on the other hand rather increased those as to France . David Low , the learned Professor of Agriculture in the ...
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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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