The land and the labourers: a record of facts and experiments in cottage farming and co-operative agriculture |
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... invested . It may be perhaps useful to give the full balance sheet for a fairly typical year . I will take 1881 , because in that year one of the leading agriculturists in my neighbourhood , Mr. W. Smith of Woolston , did me the honour ...
... invested . It may be perhaps useful to give the full balance sheet for a fairly typical year . I will take 1881 , because in that year one of the leading agriculturists in my neighbourhood , Mr. W. Smith of Woolston , did me the honour ...
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... , of nearly 28 per cent . on the capital invested . So much for my first deduction . But there are others . For example , with regard to the advantages of small holdings , to my mind three things 22 THE LAND AND THE LABOURERS .
... , of nearly 28 per cent . on the capital invested . So much for my first deduction . But there are others . For example , with regard to the advantages of small holdings , to my mind three things 22 THE LAND AND THE LABOURERS .
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... invested , and yet amiably allows that " perhaps after all the work may be worth doing , " we are , most of us , I suppose , ready to give some sympathy to the impetuous outburst of Dorothea's indignation when she cried- " Worth doing ...
... invested , and yet amiably allows that " perhaps after all the work may be worth doing , " we are , most of us , I suppose , ready to give some sympathy to the impetuous outburst of Dorothea's indignation when she cried- " Worth doing ...
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... invested . Let the landlord grant to every cottage tenant an allotment of land of not less than one acre . A cottager who cannot afford to pay 2s . a week for a cottage only , can well afford to pay 3s . 6d . or 4s . , or even more ...
... invested . Let the landlord grant to every cottage tenant an allotment of land of not less than one acre . A cottager who cannot afford to pay 2s . a week for a cottage only , can well afford to pay 3s . 6d . or 4s . , or even more ...
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... invested during that period has increased from £ 28 to very nearly £ 6,000,000 , it does seem very discouraging to those who have been inclined to regard co - operation as a possible regenerating force in modern economic society , to ...
... invested during that period has increased from £ 28 to very nearly £ 6,000,000 , it does seem very discouraging to those who have been inclined to regard co - operation as a possible regenerating force in modern economic society , to ...
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acre advantages agricultural labourers annual application Assington associated labourers Association average Balance Sheet Bill bonus bushels capital cent CHAPTER Charity Commissioners co-operative agriculture Co-operative Farming committee condition cottage county Clare cow-keeping Craig crop cultivation dairy desire dividend dung economic England English experiment fact farm labourers farmers garden give Glebe Granborough improved Inclosure Act increased interest invested Ireland Irish Jesse Collings Joseph Arch Lancashire land landlord Lawson Limerick Lord manure ment Minster Lovell moral neighbourhood North Seaton occupation operative paid parish pigs potatoes present principle of co-operation produce profits proprietor question Ralahine rent result Rochdale Pioneers rules rural labourer scheme season share Sir Charles Dilke small farms small holdings social soil sold straw success tenants Thuenen tion Vandeleur vegetables village wages week wheat WILLIAM LAWSON ΙΟ
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Стр. 46 - That if any of the said allotments shall be found to lie at an inconvenient distance from the residences of the cottagers, it shall be lawful for the vestry, by an order made to that effect, to let such allotment, or any part thereof, for the best rent that can be procured for the same, and to hire in lieu thereof, for the purposes of this Act, land of equal value, more favourably situated.