Essai sur l'économie rurale de l'Angleterre, de l'Écosse et de l'Irlande |
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... fifty - three . But these thirty - one million hectares are far from being of uniform fertility ; on the contrary , they exhibit perhaps greater differences than are to be found in any other country . It is well known that the United ...
... fifty - three . But these thirty - one million hectares are far from being of uniform fertility ; on the contrary , they exhibit perhaps greater differences than are to be found in any other country . It is well known that the United ...
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... fifty - three . To have proportionately as great a number as our neighbours we should have sixty millions . This difference , which so far is material , is farther in- creased when we compare France with England proper ; the two other ...
... fifty - three . To have proportionately as great a number as our neighbours we should have sixty millions . This difference , which so far is material , is farther in- creased when we compare France with England proper ; the two other ...
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... fifty per cent greater weight of wool . This , allowing for the greater number pre- sumed to be clipped in France from the smaller proportionate number slaughtered , as we have seen - and assuming , as we are bound to do , a less price ...
... fifty per cent greater weight of wool . This , allowing for the greater number pre- sumed to be clipped in France from the smaller proportionate number slaughtered , as we have seen - and assuming , as we are bound to do , a less price ...
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... fifty years ago , did not give a pound of wool , the names even of which were scarcely known , figure upon these lists for enormous quantities . Among these are the British colonies in Australia , which furnish forty million pounds of ...
... fifty years ago , did not give a pound of wool , the names even of which were scarcely known , figure upon these lists for enormous quantities . Among these are the British colonies in Australia , which furnish forty million pounds of ...
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... fifty or sixty years . This country , at one time covered with heather and moss , has become a sort of Arcadia . Robert Burns , the shepherd poet , was born there . His rustic poetry , which was written about the time of the French ...
... fifty or sixty years . This country , at one time covered with heather and moss , has become a sort of Arcadia . Robert Burns , the shepherd poet , was born there . His rustic poetry , which was written about the time of the French ...
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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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