1st Edition

Landed Interest and the Supply of Food

By James Caird Copyright 1967
    204 Pages
    by Routledge

    204 Pages
    by Routledge

    First Published in 1967. In The Landed Interest and the Supply of Food James Caird reconsidered the position of British agriculture a generation after the appearance of his High Farming pamphlet and his English Agriculture in 1850 and 1851. Much of this text was devoted to a reconsideration of the structure of landownership and farming, and the relations between landlord and tenant. This is the fifth edition.

    Home and foreign supply of food; changes and progress in agriculture in recent years; soil, climate and crops; distribution of landed property; landowner, farmer and labourer; land improvement; recent rise in the value of land; the government in its connection with agriculture; waste lands and copyholds; church, crown and charity estates; the future; agricultural prospects; appendix. (Part contents).

    Biography

    Caird, James