Where shall we get meat? The food supplies of western Europe. To which is appended a paper on the production of food |
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... miles , if it did not join the French coast ; that the surge of the Atlantic washed away the soft clay and left the solid rock . Hence there are great stretches of low reefs of rocks only a foot or two above the level of low water , and ...
... miles , if it did not join the French coast ; that the surge of the Atlantic washed away the soft clay and left the solid rock . Hence there are great stretches of low reefs of rocks only a foot or two above the level of low water , and ...
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... miles , Guernsey of about 50 square miles . Neither islands are manufacturing or mineral , yet the population of the former in 1861 was 55,613 , and the latter , 29,350 ; being at the rate of over 800 per square mile for Jersey , and ...
... miles , Guernsey of about 50 square miles . Neither islands are manufacturing or mineral , yet the population of the former in 1861 was 55,613 , and the latter , 29,350 ; being at the rate of over 800 per square mile for Jersey , and ...
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... miles . The large quantity of stock kept affords sufficient farmyard manure to keep up the succession of crops . No waste of excrementitious matter ( the basis of all good farming ) occurs . The soil is kept in its high state of ...
... miles . The large quantity of stock kept affords sufficient farmyard manure to keep up the succession of crops . No waste of excrementitious matter ( the basis of all good farming ) occurs . The soil is kept in its high state of ...
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... miles , has brought it into more intimate connection with the vast districts which are supplying England with so much food , which used to be shipped from Nantes , an important seaport on the west coast of France . The barley which is ...
... miles , has brought it into more intimate connection with the vast districts which are supplying England with so much food , which used to be shipped from Nantes , an important seaport on the west coast of France . The barley which is ...
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... miles from St. Malo , and can be reached by water . It has a large number of English residents , attracted partly by the beauty of the neighbourhood and partly by the cheapness of the living . Board and lodging may be had at five francs ...
... miles from St. Malo , and can be reached by water . It has a large number of English residents , attracted partly by the beauty of the neighbourhood and partly by the cheapness of the living . Board and lodging may be had at five francs ...
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agricultural produce Amsterdam animals arable land average Barley Basle Belgian Belgium Berne Britain British Brussels bushels butter calves cattle cent cereals cheese consumed consumption corn cows crops crown 8vo cultivation decrease district Dutch Edition England English acres estimated exports of cattle farm farmers flax flesh-formers foreign France French George Nicholls grain hectares hectolitres Holland horses imports increase inhabitants Ireland labour lake large number lessened live stock London Lucerne Malo manufactures manure Mayence miles milk Mudden nations nearly Netherlands North Holland number of cattle Oats pigs political economy population Post 8vo potatoes price of meat production of food province quantity railway rent Rhine Rotterdam Russia Scotland seed sheep silk Sir George Nicholls soil statistics steamers supply of meat Swiss Switzerland tillage Total town turnips United Kingdom vols West Flanders Wheat wine
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