British Farmer's Magazine, Issue 15James Ridgway, 1849 - Agriculture |
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... compensation that exists ? Do so , if you please ? Where the full custom of the county " In the Weald of Kent , the payments made there to the valuation , according to the custom of the country , that means is spoken of , and where the ...
... compensation that exists ? Do so , if you please ? Where the full custom of the county " In the Weald of Kent , the payments made there to the valuation , according to the custom of the country , that means is spoken of , and where the ...
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... compensation for the purchase of artificial manure , or artificial food for stock ? -No not any . Is there any compensation for draining or chalking Can you tell the Committee to what extent you have measured and surveyed the land in ...
... compensation for the purchase of artificial manure , or artificial food for stock ? -No not any . Is there any compensation for draining or chalking Can you tell the Committee to what extent you have measured and surveyed the land in ...
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... compensation for unexhausted manures . Then it would be very difficult to apply a general law that would be applicable to the tillages of those districts , because they differ ? —It would be very diffi The drains kept up by the ...
... compensation for unexhausted manures . Then it would be very difficult to apply a general law that would be applicable to the tillages of those districts , because they differ ? —It would be very diffi The drains kept up by the ...
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... compensation in fairness to the out- going tenant . Would you make such a law apply to existing agree- ments ? -Yes , I should ; otherwise they would be no better off than if the law did not apply to all . You have stated that very few ...
... compensation in fairness to the out- going tenant . Would you make such a law apply to existing agree- ments ? -Yes , I should ; otherwise they would be no better off than if the law did not apply to all . You have stated that very few ...
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... compensation beyond that for all outlays . To put the case clearly , supposing a law were made that the tenant should be entitled to receive money for marling , draining , chalking , or fencing , as you have stated , and the farm was ...
... compensation beyond that for all outlays . To put the case clearly , supposing a law were made that the tenant should be entitled to receive money for marling , draining , chalking , or fencing , as you have stated , and the farm was ...
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Page 250 - It may here be noticed that the practice of setting children prematurely to work, a practice which the state, the legitimate protector of those who cannot protect themselves, has, in our time, wisely and humanely interdicted, prevailed in the seventeenth century to an extent which, when compared with the extent of the manufacturing system, seems almost incredible. At Norwich, the chief seat of the clothing trade, a little creature of six years old was thought fit for labour. Several writers of that...
Page 250 - The more carefully we examine the history of the past, the more reason shall we find to dissent from those who imagine that our age has been fruitful of new social evils. The truth is that the evils are, with scarcely an exception, old. That which is new is the intelligence which discerns and the humanity which remedies them.
Page 106 - Now it is most true that if the golden rule of, " doing unto others as we would they should do unto us...
Page 63 - ... per pint when made in less quantities. The gruel on alternate days to be sweetened with £ oz. of molasses or sugar, and seasoned with salt.
Page 251 - The year 1685 was not accounted sickly ; yet in the year 1685 more than one in twentythree of the inhabitants of the capital died.* At present only one inhabitant of the capital in forty dies annually. The difference in salubrity between the London of the nineteenth century and the London of the seventeenth century is very far greater than the difference between London in an ordinary year and London in a year of cholera.
Page 374 - Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you ; even as the green herb have 1 given you all things.
Page 249 - For so miserable a recompense were the producers of wealth compelled to toil, rising early and lying down late, while the master clothier, eating, sleeping, and idling, became rich by their exertions.
Page 63 - For some months past, in certain parts of Hampshire, partridges have been found dead in the fields, presenting a very remarkable appearance. Instead of lying prostrate on their sides, as is usually the case with dead birds, they have been found sitting with their heads erect and their eyes open, presenting all the semblance of life. This peculiarity, which for some time had attracted considerable attention among sportsmen in the neighbourhood, led to no practical result until about ten days ago,...
Page 63 - I am about to communicate have an important bearing, not only upon the sanitary condition of our population, but upon the whole question of poisoning by arsenic, I need make no apology for laying them at once before the profession. For some months past, in certain parts of Hampshire, partridges have been found dead in the fields, presenting a very remarkable appearance. Instead of lying prostrate on their sides, as is usually the case with dead birds, they have been found sitting with their heads...
Page 249 - It is the vehement and bitter cry of labour against capital. It describes the good old times when every artisan employed in the woollen manufacture lived as well as a farmer. But those times were past. Sixpence a day was now all that could be earned by hard labour at the loom.