Der Haushalt des Kaufmannsgehilfen

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Identifikator:: 178040560X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-168007

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Der Haushalt des Kaufmannsgehilfen

Place of publication:: Hamburg

Publisher:: Deutschnationaler Handlungsgehilfen-Verband

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: 64 Seiten, [12] Blätter

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: 5. Die Ausgaben des Kaufmannsgehilfen

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LAISSEZ FAIRE prosperity, and they had been encouraged to do their best. There had been steady progress during the eighteenth century, and this continued in the nineteenth. The chief new departure! which occurred was the systematic introduc- tion of thorough drainage. This practice Irad been locally pursued in Essex since the seventeenth century; but it was made the subject of experiments by Mr Smith of Deanston. By taking the water off the land, he improved the quality of the soil, and greatly increased the number of days when it was available for working. His experiments were first pub- lished in 1834; but so rapidly did they take hold of the public mind that, in 1846, Parliament consented to grant loans to landlords to carry out these improvements? It was no longer the case that improvement was intro- duced exclusively, or even chiefly, by the landlord class; a new class of tenant farmers had arisen® who were not only possessed of capital, but capable of employing it in introducing scientific methods of farming. They were ready to have recourse to manures of many kinds, in order to restore the fertility of land from which large crops were frequently extorted, and they were able to make the business pay, by combining corn-growing with the raising of stock. The full effects of foreign competition were not felt immediately, as the Russian war cut off the Baltic supply for a time, and the American Civil War checked the growth of the grain trade ore from the United States. Since 1874, the prices of corn and gers of of stock have been alike affected by greatly increased im- rompatition POTtation from abroad ; the free-trade policy at length resulted were felt: in a state of affairs in which the farmer could no longer pay his way, and a fall in rents became inevitable. The depres- sion of the landed interest has been so serious, that proprietors have been without the means of attempting to introduce improvements. while there 1s less reason than formerlv to 344 A.D. 1776 ~1850. but the work of tm: provement was taken up by sub- stantial tenants 1 There was also a great increase in knowledge of methods of manuring the land, since agricultural chemistry was coming to be pursued as a branch of science and not treated as mere rule of thumb. It was found that there were valuable elsments in all sorts of refuse, as for example in bones, while the better means of communication rendered it more possible for farmers to avail themselves of fertilisers which were not native to their own district. Prothero. Pioneers. 99. R Prothero. on. cit. 97-98. 3 Th. 111.

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