Transactions, Volum 4

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Side 199 - Permanent pasture, meadow, or grass! not broken up in rotation (exclusive! of heath or mountain land) . . . . j LITE STOCK : — Cattle Total number of horses used for^ agriculture, unbroken horses,!
Side 259 - No simple rules, applicable to various descriptions of soil, season, crop, and manure, can be laid down for the valuation of the unexhausted residue of previously applied manures which have already yielded a crop. " By the valuation of so much of the farm-yard manure, and of so much of the...
Side 259 - No injury is likely to result to the landlord from granting the tenant permission to crop as he pleases, provided he be bound to keep the land free from weeds, and to leave a fixed proportion under fallow and green crops, at the termination of his occupation.
Side 259 - The natural fertility of a soil, on the other band, whether high or low in degree, is, comparatively speaking, a permanent quality ; it can only be injuriously affected by the continuance of an exhaustive system of cropping for a long period of time ; it is the property of the landlord ; and, excepting in the case of very light soils, it is the chief element in determining the rent-value of the land.
Side 300 - He could have wished that the honourable post which he then occupied had been filled by one who was more competent to perform its duties ; but though he felt his inferiority with regard to the duties of the chair, he would yield to no one in that room as respected the interest which he had ever felt...
Side 173 - ... with laws such as we have, which are intended to bring vast tracts of land into the possession of one man — that one man may exercise great political power...
Side 173 - You may travel — I was going to say, ' from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof — on some single estate in Scotland, north or south, east or west — wherever you go you ask whose land you are on, and you are told that it belongs to some marquis or some duke.

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