The Industrial Revolution

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Identifikator:: 1027928145

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-159926

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Cunningham, William http://d-nb.info/gnd/128907487

Title:: The Industrial Revolution

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: The University Press

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: xxii S., S. 404-886

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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THE DEMAND FOR FOOD AND HIGHER FARMING 709 the cultivation of potatoes at home’, while every pains was A.D. 1776 taken to prevent any waste in the use of grain of any sort? es Distillers were obliged to stop working, and the manufacture courage . . . waste. of starch was checked? while recommendations were issued*, and apparently acted on to some extent, as to the duty of the doubted, as it forms the chief subsistence of the southern part of the United States of America. The use of it here has however been hitherto so little known, that it is difficult to estimate either what quantity may be expected, or in what proportion it may be introduced into the consumption of this country; but as it is also applicable, with the greatest advantage, to the food of cattle, hogs, and poultry, it cannot fail to operate, either directly or indirectly, as a valuable uddition to the gemeral stock of Grain.” Reports, 1x. 126. ! The Committee on the High Price of Provisions resolved in Feb. 1801, “That it is the opinion of this Committee, That that part of the United Kingdom called Great Britain be divided into Twelve Districts; and that Premiums, not exceeding in the whole the sam of £12,000 be offered for the culti- 7ation of Potatoes by Proprietors and Occupiers of land, not being Cottagers. That it is the opinion of this Committee, That Premiums to the amount of £13,000 be offered for the encouragement of the culture of Potatoes by Cottagers in England and Wales, to be distributed in sums not exceeding £20, for sach district or division in which Magistrates act at their Petty Sessions in their several counties; and that such Day Labourer, Artificer, or Manufacturer, being a Cottager in each of the said districts or divisions, who shall raise on land in his secupation in the present year, the largest average crop of Potatoes per perch:— In not less than 12 square perch of land . . » v To the second largest crop on do. . . . . . To the third largest crop on do. . . . . . . Reports, 1x. p. 132. 2 “Your Committee have heard, with very great concern, that from the mistaken application of the charity of individuals, in some parts of the country, Flour and Bread have been delivered to the poor at a reduced price; a practice which may contribute very considerably to increase the inconveniencies arising from the deficiency of the last crop: And they recommend that all charity and parochial relief should be given, as far as is practicable, in any other articles :xcept Bread, Flour, and Money, and that the part of it which is necessary for the sustenance of the poor, should be distributed in soups, rice, potatoes, or other substitutes. Your Committee are of opinion, that if this regulation was generally adopted, it would not only, in a very great degree, contribute to economize at this :ime the consumption of Flour, but that it might have the effect of gradually intro- Jucing into use, a more wholesome and nutritious species of food than that to which the poor are at present accustomed.” Reports, 1x. p. 68. 8 4] G. ITl. ¢. 3. The Committee anticipated the following results from this measure, “The quantity of Wheat which will be saved for Food by the pro- hibition of the manufacture of Starch from that Grain, will be about 40,000 quarters. In consequence of the stoppage of the Distilleries, at least 500,000 quarters of Barley, which would have been consumed in that manufacture, will remain applicable to the subsistence of the People; but as it may be supposed that eleven bushels of Barley are not more than equivalent to one quarter of Wheat, this can only be stated at 360,000 quarters.” Reports, 1x. p. 126. 4 The King, in answer to an address on the subject from the two Houses of Parliament, issued a proclamation ‘most earnestly exhorting and charging all £10

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