Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . TAUT OF OXFOKDSIIIRE AXD BERKSUIRE {From the Siinttj. IN 1797, SIIOWIXG UPEN K. Davis.) Distress. 106 PEACE, BETEENCHMEKT, AXD REFOBM. the Present Scarcity (1795), complains that Enghmd producedless poultry, eggs, and pigs than formerly, and urges that associ-ations should be formed to purchase laige estates, divide theminto small farms, and let or sell them to small farmers. But themischief was al
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . TAUT OF OXFOKDSIIIRE AXD BERKSUIRE {From the Siinttj. IN 1797, SIIOWIXG UPEN K. Davis.) Distress. 106 PEACE, BETEENCHMEKT, AXD REFOBM. the Present Scarcity (1795), complains that Enghmd producedless poultry, eggs, and pigs than formerly, and urges that associ-ations should be formed to purchase laige estates, divide theminto small farms, and let or sell them to small farmers. But themischief was already partly done. In 1801 Arthur Young wrotea pamphlet On Wastes, in which he gives the result of someinquiries that he had instituted into the effect of enclosures. ilan}- kept cows that have not since, is his frecjuent summaryof results. Out of thirty-seven parishes he found only twelvein which the condition of the poor was improved by the com-pensation for the loss of their commons. It is computed,writes the author of A Plan for Relieving the Rates by CottageAcres (1817), that, since the year 1760, there have beenupwards of forty thousand small farms monopolised and con-solidated into large ones, and as many cottages
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