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Page xix
... more easily spoken of than conceived . In the season of 1769-70 the supply was 105,809 packages , con- sisting of firkins and kegs . From 1772 to 1809 the butter was also sent in casks . In 1775 it had increased to B 2 ( XIX )
... more easily spoken of than conceived . In the season of 1769-70 the supply was 105,809 packages , con- sisting of firkins and kegs . From 1772 to 1809 the butter was also sent in casks . In 1775 it had increased to B 2 ( XIX )
Page xx
... supply had increased to 400,509 firkins - the make of kegs having been almost discontinued since 1853. The Cork butter market is held daily , with the exception of about fifteen days ' interval in March or April between the old and the ...
... supply had increased to 400,509 firkins - the make of kegs having been almost discontinued since 1853. The Cork butter market is held daily , with the exception of about fifteen days ' interval in March or April between the old and the ...
Page xxxiv
... supplies will any way be equalised by the want of employment giving the labouring classes less money to spend , remains to be seen . “ Irish Butter . — The demand since our last has not been an active one ; with only a moderate quantity ...
... supplies will any way be equalised by the want of employment giving the labouring classes less money to spend , remains to be seen . “ Irish Butter . — The demand since our last has not been an active one ; with only a moderate quantity ...
Page xxxv
... supplies considerably , and receipts for past week show an excess of 1165 firkins over corresponding week last year . Demand , notwith- standing the large make , continues quite brisk , and prices have been well sustained throughout the ...
... supplies considerably , and receipts for past week show an excess of 1165 firkins over corresponding week last year . Demand , notwith- standing the large make , continues quite brisk , and prices have been well sustained throughout the ...
Page 8
... supply of chalk or lime , or better still clay - marl , would greatly improve the productive power of these Campine soils . Indeed lime , in some form or the other , should be freely incorporated with these lands if it is desired to ...
... supply of chalk or lime , or better still clay - marl , would greatly improve the productive power of these Campine soils . Indeed lime , in some form or the other , should be freely incorporated with these lands if it is desired to ...
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Page 106 - The days of our age are threescore years and ten ; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow ; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
Page 418 - Report of the Commissioners appointed in 1868 to inquire into the best means of preventing the pollution of Rivers (Mersey and Ribble basins).
Page 85 - Commission on the employment of children, young persons, and women in agriculture — "fearful to contemplate.
Page 567 - And We do hereby grant our especial licence and authority unto all and every person and persons, bodies politic and corporate, (otherwise competent,) to grant, sell, alien, and convey in mortmain, unto and to the use of the said Society, and their successors, any messuages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, not exceeding such annual value as aforesaid.
Page 567 - VICTORIA, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith; to all to whom these presents shall come greeting...
Page 197 - That whoever shall knowingly sell to any person or persons, or sell, deliver, or bring to be manufactured to any cheese or butter manufactory in this State, any milk diluted with water, or in any way adulterated, or milk from which any cream has been taken, or milk commonly known as "skimmed milk," or shall keep back any part of the milk known as "strippings,.
Page lxviii - Kent, has been elected a Member of Council to fill the vacancy caused by the election of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, KG, as a Vice-President.
Page 567 - ... to make it fit into the wooden box, invert the open box over it, press down firmly, then pass a spade under the box and lift it up, gently turn over the box, nail on the lid, and send by rail.
Page 567 - Society ;" and for the purposes aforesaid, and by the name aforesaid, shall have perpetual succession and a Common Seal, with full power and authority to alter, vary break, and renew the same at their discretion, and by the same name, to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be -answered unto...