Dr. s. d.

Rent                      1  7-1/2
Bread                     6  0
Bacon                     2  6
Tea and sugar             1  3
Cheese                    1  6
Butter                    1  6
Fuel                      1  3
Candles and soap          0  6
Clothes                   1  6
Schooling                 0  3
Sundries                  0  6
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18  4-1/2
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There is no fresh meat, and it is hard to say where any economy could be practised.

CONTRACT PRICES OF BUTCHER’S MEAT PER CWT.  AT GREENWICH HOSPITAL, 1730-1842.[770]

L s. d.

1730 1 5 8 1740 1 8 0 1750 1 6 6 1760 1 11 6 1770 1 8 6 1780 1 12 6 1790 1 16 10 1800 4 4 1810 3 12 0 1815 3 8 0 1820 3 10 4 1825 2 19 6 1830 2 3 6 1835 2 0 7 1840 2 14 0 1842 2 12 8

FOOTNOTES: 

[760] C. Wren Hoskyns, Pamphlet on Agricultural Statistics, p. 19.

[761] English Agriculture in 1850-1, p. 521.  Cf. above, p. 331.

[762] Smith, Memoirs of Wool, i. 157.

[763] In 1908 the rental of agricultural land was 3-1/2 per cent. of the total income of the country.  See The Times May 13, 1909.

[764] Ibid. ii. 264.

[765] Cunningham, Industry and Commerce, ii. 693.  Cf. above, p. 328.

[766] Trusler, Practical Husbandry, p. 153.

[767] Farmer’s Magazine (1817), p. 6.  Statistics at this date, however, must be taken with caution.  They were usually estimates.  Cf. above, p. 334, for holdings in England.

[768] Parliamentary Reports, Commissioners (1881), xvi, 305.

[769] Parliamentary Reports, Commissioners (1881), xvi. 310.

[770] McCulloch, Commercial Dictionary (1852), p. 271.

INDEX

A

Abbot’s Ripton, 72.

Aberdeen Angus cattle, 288, 343.

Accounts, keeping, 29, 49.

Accumulation of estates, 123.

Acre, 2; tenantry, 253.

Advantages of large farms, 202.

Affer, the, 35.

Agricultural Holdings Acts, 283, 296, 299-303.

Agricultural revolution, the, of eighteenth century, 162.

Agriculture,
  state of, 28, 38, 111, 113, 115, 123, 132, 160, 162, 192, 204,
    211, 221, 229, 244, 245, 250, 265, 267, 274, 287, 305;
  seventeenth-century writers on, 127;
  state of, in eighteenth century, 162, 192, 221, 229;
  nineteenth, 244, 245, 262-70, 271, 287.

Aitchison, 237.

Akermanni, 13.

Alderney cattle, 233.

Ale, 10.

Allotments, 196, 230, 253, 255n., 315-7.

Allowance system, 237.