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Journal of the House of Lords
… that have gone the soonest to the Wall? With respect to Farms of Fifty Acres and so on, it entirely depends upon the … do well? No, they have not done well; I think all small Farms should be on Land of good Quality. In the Reply to the …
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… dividing all the Labourers amongst us upon the different Farms, according to our Rental. In what Proportion did you …
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… Mr. Coke's Accession to the Estate, one of the largest Farms was offered at 5 s. per Acre, Tithe-free, and refused. … this exists. Mr. Richardson's Proposition is for District Farms, and to absorb the Labour by individual Employment. Was … I can but believe, that after a certain Time those small Farms would become as effectually productive as any Land now …
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… to employ the whole in doing the necessary Work of their Farms, to keep them up in a proper State, we should not have … Assistance; would there be, in the Manner in which the Farms are now cultivated in that Parish, sufficient … to lend that Capital so employed on the Improvement of the Farms? Yes, I think it would in the best, but not inferior …
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… it is now; and therefore if the Men were allotted to the Farms in proper Proportions, I am satisfied that there is not … them keep Labourers who are constantly employed upon their Farms? Yes. [134] Are you aware of the Wages they pay to such … which they ought to have done in order to have their Farms in the best possible Cultivation? I do not mean to say …
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… are engaged, and in which they are paid their Wages on Farms. I speak of the Agricultural Labourers. Will you state … That Class of Persons not engaged as yearly Servants on Farms are frequently without Employment. How do they subsist? … Ground in which they were planted; and I altered it on my Farms, taking the Risk and Expence of the Potatoe Crop upon …
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… The first that I would venture to mention would be Spade Farms; but I beg leave to say, that these, as far as I have … and one that has induced me to think that the Spade Farms on the Spot would be preferable. A Proprietor would … may occur to you? I have stated, in the first place, Spade Farms, with the Cottages remaining where they are; the …
Journal of the House of Lords
… or any Means of that sort, ought to be adopted on those Farms? I believe that in many Cases the Labourers might be … Labourers altogether in a Parish, and that a Farmer who farms the Poor of that Parish requires only Fifteen, do not … Labour which was necessary for the Cultivation of their Farms, and that an Equilibrium would by that Means have been …