AGRICULTURAL DEPRESSION IN ENGLAND
Some remarkable Ipoldepfcs of agricultural depression bavQ b,een qarvated m the ° Morning Post." In one paragraph it was stated that a Morayshlre farmer disposed of a goose for 7a 6d and bought two oalves for 6s, returning home with a balance of Is 6d. This story was capped by Dr Wiogate Saul, who wrote that at a weekly Btook sale m Lanpapter t, good healthy calf waa recently aold for the 10th part of the value of a goose— namely, 9i. And.^byl Because, said the writer, such is the present deplorable condition of agriculture, at \?s9t as fo? a,s atocl^ raising g^ss, that if yoa let a farm rent free and supplied the occupier with oalvei at farthinga apleoe, he could not rear thsm without losing money. I* it really so Jjad as all that, even m the gragmg dfsklots ? If It ba, these will ba nothing tot it bat ruin Qr some herolo measure which nobody at present ha,a the pluott to mention, ■
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1772, 21 February 1888, Page 3
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168AGRICULTURAL DEPRESSION IN ENGLAND Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1772, 21 February 1888, Page 3
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