The English Dairy Farmer
Title | The English Dairy Farmer PDF eBook |
Author | G. E. Fussell |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2019-12-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1000696588 |
Originally published in 1966, this work by G. E. Fussell is a thorough examination of the role played by the English dairy farmer over the past four hundred years. Beginning his study with the cow he gives an account of the improved breeding and feeding methods that make today's cow a totally different beast to that of the Tudor farmer. A chapter is devoted to the cultivation of fodder crops and another to the comfort of the cow for, as the author states, pleasant conditions are an important factor in encouraging its productivity. The dairy industry, no less than any other in the nineteenth century, was the scene of numerous devices and inventions designed to improve milking methods. This, together with the development of the sale of milk in a liquid form, is discussed in later chapters. The practical difficulties of transporting milk had until about 1850 caused the major part of the milk produced to be turned into butter and cheese and the varying products of differing regions are fully described. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, however, the number of dairies prepared to retail milk grew in number to accommodate an ever increasing rate of milk consumption. Numerous farming textbooks published during the period and contemporary descriptions of the farming scene form the background for this scholarly appraisal. No other book has treated the English dairy farmer in such detail and, in drawing upon such a wealth of illustrative material to support his conclusions, G. E. Fussell has produced a work which will be valued by all agricultural historians.
English Dairy Farmer, 1500-1900
Title | English Dairy Farmer, 1500-1900 PDF eBook |
Author | George E. Fussell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 357 |
Release | 1966-12 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780678050460 |
British Agriculture
Title | British Agriculture PDF eBook |
Author | P J Perry |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2013-11-05 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1136581189 |
Profound Changes took place in British Agriculture between 1875 and 1914. After the prosperous years of the mid-nineteenth century came a period of difficulty for landowners and farmers, with falling prices, lower rents and untenanted farms. Previously attributed to bad seasons and increased food imports, this book questions whether the unexpected depression was rather the evolutionary upheaval of a system forced reluctantly into change. Undoubtedly there was a crisis, in these decades farming ceased to be Britain's major industry; no longer able to supply all her own food, the country came to depend increasingly upon imports. Methods changed, cereal production yielding pre-eminence to pastoral farming. In recent years scholars have challenged traditional interpretations of the crisis, seeking a wider range of causes, characteristics and consequences. It has come to be seen as a phenomenon of change as much as of decay. This book brings together different views of the depression, ranging from contemporary evaluations to recent regional and econometric studies which stress its spatial and developmental character. Originally published in 1973, these eight contributions provide a survey of changing approaches to one of the major economic crises in modern history.
Feeding the Victorian City
Title | Feeding the Victorian City PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Scola |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 390 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Food industry and trade |
ISBN | 9780719030888 |
The Agrarian History of England and Wales
Title | The Agrarian History of England and Wales PDF eBook |
Author | Edward John T. Collins |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 994 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Agriculture |
ISBN | 9780521329262 |
The unifying theme of this volume is the changing role of the countryside in national life, and the impact upon it of the social and economic forces unleashed by industrialisation and the growth of towns.
The Allotment Movement in England, 1793-1873
Title | The Allotment Movement in England, 1793-1873 PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremy Burchardt |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0861932560 |
The living standards of the rural poor suffered a severe decline in the first half of the nineteenth century as a result of high population growth, changing agricultural practices, enclosure and the decline of rural industries. Allotment provision was the most important counterweight to the pressures. This book offers the first systematic analysis of the early nineteenth-century allotment movement, providing new data on the chronology of the movement and on the number, geographical distribution, size, rents, cultivation yields and effect on living standards of allotments, showing how the movement brought the culture of the rural labouring poor more closely into line with the mainstream values of respectable mid-Victorian England. This book casts new light on central aspects of early and mid-nineteenth-century social and economic history, agriculture and rural society. JEREMY BURCHARDT is lecturer in Rural History, University of Reading.
Creatures of Empire
Title | Creatures of Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Virginia DeJohn Anderson |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780195304466 |
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