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The Land and the Labourers; Facts and Experiments in Cottage Farming and Co-Operative Agriculture

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE CLERGY AS GLEBE LANDLORDS. Parson do preach and tell me to pray, And to think of our work, and not ask more pay; And to follow plough-share, and never think Of crazy cottage and ditch stuffs' stink? That Doctor do say breeds ager and chills, Or worse than that, the fever that kills ? And a'bids me pay my way like a man, Whether I can't or whether I can; And as I h'ant beef, to be thankful for bread, And bless the Lord it ain't turmuts instead; And never envy the farmer's pig, For all a'lies warm, and is fed so big, While the missus and little 'uns grows that thin, You may count their bones underneath thar skin; I'm to call all I gits the ' chastening rod, ' And look up to my betters and then thank God. Punch. In the concluding sentence of the first chapter I ventured to speak of the Social Destination of Property. This is a doctrine which it has often seemed to me to be specially incumbent upon the clergy of Christ to practise as well as preach. We country clergy, at any rate, ought not to forget that we are, inthe majority of cases, if not landlords, at least landholders. Our numbers are estimated, I believe, at something like 1,200 in England alone. We represent, in fact, probably considerably more than one-fourth of the resident landowners of the country. We have then, it seems to me, a special duty with regard to this relation. Can we do nothing then, I would ask, in our character of Glebe Landlords, to mitigate one at least of the great evils arising from absorption of small holdings ? Would it not be possible for us to use the property of which we are trustees in such a way that we should once more be able to set before the rural labourer that one attainable point of hope, without which I venture to say all plans for his welfare, whether ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217954105
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 52
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217954103
  • Publisher Date: 07 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 109 gr

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