Large and Small Holdings: A Study of English Agricultural Economics

acres advantage agricultural holding agricultural labourers agriculturist allotments arable farming arable land Arthur Young better Board of Agriculture branches of agriculture branches of production bread Caird capital co-operative considerable corn-growing corn-laws corn-prices corn-production cottages County Council cows crops cultivation dairy dairy-farming decrease demand districts economic eggs eighteenth century enclosures England English agriculture fact favour fruit holders Ibid II District importance improvements increased industrial Isle of Axholme Jesse Collings Journal R. A. S. landlords landowners large farm system large farmer large holdings Lincolnshire market-gardening meat medium holdings milk number of small occupier organisation pasture pasture-farming period plough poultry price of corn profitable proved purchase question regard rent Report of 1894 Rider Haggard rise Royal Agricultural Society rural rural exodus small farms Small Holdings Report social statistics stock-farming tenants towns unit of holding vegetables wages wheat yeomanry