Das Baugewerbe in der Volks-, Berufs- und Betriebszählung von 1925

Der Salzhandel, die Salinen und Salzbergwerke Württembergs im 19. Jahrhundert

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Identifikator:: 836084659

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-28892

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Ricardo, David

Title:: Oeuvres complètes

Place of publication:: Paris

Publisher:: Guillaumin

Year of publication:: 1847

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XLVIII, 752 S)

Collection:: Economics Books

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To Is a al a IMPROVEMENTS IN TILLAGE 551 great principle of the so-called new husbandry was to in- AD. 1639 troduce the cultivation of roots and seeds in such a fashion ~'"*" as to supplement corn-growing. There was no desire to substitute anything else for corn-growing, as pasture-farming had been substituted for arable cultivation in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The point maintained throughout so as to was, that, if careful attention were given to the qualities of ghz a ve the soil, and energy were expended on the working of the husbandry land, these root and grass crops might be introduced so as to render unnecessary the fallow shift, every second or third year. Thus, what he commonly recommends, is a course of turnips, barley, clover and wheat, an arrangement which may be said to be a development of alternate cropping and fallowing. He preferred, however, that the land should be two years under clover, which thus gave a five-course husbandry’. He was, of course, well aware that this rotation of crops would only prove satisfactory where the land was carefully cultivated: in particular if the turnips were not properly tilled, there was reason to fear that the land would never be free from weeds. A great impulse had been given to the introduction of the new husbandry by the example of Jethro Tull, who invented a drill for sowing, and devised a method of cultivating turnips, which was sound in principle? and which he found successful in practice. In this way, cattle-breeding, which along with dairy whi farming and poultry farming had been the department in prvi which the small farmers had a special advantage®, came to oe es be an important element in capitalistic land management, ¥d cattle. and attracted the attention of improvers. Through the Middle Ages, sheep had been chiefly bred for the sake of their wool, and cattle for the sake of their powers of draught as oxen; but in the latter half of the eighteenth century these points were treated as subsidiary, and the breeding of sheep and cattle was pursued with reference to the food supply* Mr Bakewell of Leicester appears to have been the pioneer in both sheep-breeding and cattle-rearing; and he was 1 Northern Tour, 1. 165. Turnips, barley, clover (2), and wheat. 2 Horseshoeing Husbandry (1773). 8 H. Levy, Entstehung und Riickgang des landwirthschaftlichen Grossbetriebes in England, 6-10. 4 Prothero, op. cit. 51.

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