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He proposed, moreover, to increase the largesses of grain and to cover the increased expense by the permanent issue of a proportional number of copper plated, alongside of the silver, -denarii-; and then to set apart all the still undistributed arable land of Italy thus including in particular the Campanian domains and the best part of Sicily for the settlement of burgess-colonists.
He covenanted to pay a certain fixed rental for so many acres of arable and a small proportion of grass for a fixed time. He covenanted to cultivate the soil by a fixed rotation; not to sow this nor that, nor to be guided by the change of the markets, or the character of the seasons, or the appearance of powerful foreign competitors.
Although the amount of arable land which could be made available with the most careful terracing was not large enough to support a very great population, Machu Picchu offered an impregnable citadel to the chiefs and priests and their handful of followers who were obliged to flee from the rich plains near Cuzco and the broad, pleasant valley of Yucay.
Where, however, these same rocks exist in more favourable positions that is to say, in gentler banks and at lower elevations they form a ground for the most luxuriant vegetation; and the valleys of Savoy owe to them some of their loveliest solitudes exquisitely rich pastures, interspersed with arable and orchard land, and shaded by groves of walnut and cherry.
The northern half is a land of forest and morass, plentifully supplied with water in the form of rivers, lakes, and marshes, and broken up by numerous patches of cultivation. The southern half is, as it were, the other side of the pattern an immense expanse of rich, arable land, broken up by occasional patches of sand or forest.
He talks of the higher quality of his work, as if the higher quality of it were of his own making as if it gave him a right to work less for his neighbor than his neighbor works for him as if the ploughman could not do better without him than he without the ploughman as if the value of the most celebrated pictures has not been questioned more than that of any straight furrow in the arable world as if it did not take an apprenticeship of as many years to train the hand and eye of a mason or blacksmith as of an artist as if, in short, the fellow were a god, as canting brain worshippers have for years past been assuring him he is.
James, and from Queen Charlotte Sound to the Pacific Ocean, over all the islands, so far as any observations extend, except a few thousand acres of grazing lands. Small tracts of arable meadows and garden patches are cultivated by the natives.
On an arable estate, according to Cato, the returns of the soil stood as follows in a descending series: 1, vineyard; 2, vegetable garden; 3, osier copse, which yielded a large return in consequence of the culture of the vine; 4, olive plantation; 5, meadow yielding hay; 6, corn fields; 7, copse; 8, wood for felling; 9, oak forest for forage to the cattle; all of which nine elements enter into the scheme of husbandry for Cato's model estates.
Secondly there were the companies which leased sources of production that were owned by the State such as fisheries, salt-works, mines and forest land. In some particular cases even arable land had been dealt with in this way, and the confiscated territories of Capua and Corinth were let on long leases to publicani.
The pasture farmer has by no means escaped without encountering difficulties; but still, with tolerably favourable seasons, he can produce meat much more cheaply than the arable agriculturist. Yet it is one of the avowed objects of the labour organisation to prevent the increase of pasture land, to stop the laying down of grass, and even to plough up some of the old pastures.
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