Ten Years of Gentleman Farming at Blennerhasset: With Co-operative Objects

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Longmans, Green, & Company, 1874 - Agriculture, Cooperative - 408 pages
 

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Page 23 - ... perhaps they were still more doubtful of my ability to do so. They saw me buying and selling, but not getting gain : and, under these circumstances, it was not to be wondered at if simple-minded labourers supposed that no contrivance could make my Co-operation profitable to them. Moreover, they probably considered my practice of trying experiments upon the farm a great objection to Co-operating with me. For, not only were the experiments I thought proper to have tried, expensive. — without...
Page 305 - I think few of our readers will doubt, if they examine the cattle balance-sheets on pages 170 and 171 ; but it will not be out of place here, to give a few of the ideas and facts which induced us to hazard this unusual experiment.
Page 71 - This last observation caUs for some explanation. The first year of appreciation was 1866. In this year we exchanged the tackle, and getting a good bargain, the tackle at the end of the year was better than at the beginning of it. But what can be said of '68 and '69, in which for two years running, the tackle appears to have kept improving in value to the extent of ^183 193.
Page 14 - I had not much of what is called 'knowledge of the world;' nor, as I always had the prospect of enough wealth to enable me to live without working, did I form what are called ' business habits. Trained as a shooter of animals, a hunter of Cumberland beasts with hounds, and a trapper of vermin, I found myself, in the spring of 1861, in my twenty-fifth year, without an occupation, without many acquaintances — except among the poor, whom I had not learned to despise because they spoke bad grammar,...
Page 14 - Brayton), had my education conducted — in a religious manner — at home, where I acquired a little Latin and Greek, and a few other things ; and where, as is the case with many other youths, anything in the shape of lessons was not attractive to me ; and I learned as...

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