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Page 21
... farmer to sow is comparatively a fixed capital to the wheat purchased by a baker to make into loaves . One leaves it in the ground , and can obtain no return for a year ; the other can get it ground into flour , sell it as bread to his ...
... farmer to sow is comparatively a fixed capital to the wheat purchased by a baker to make into loaves . One leaves it in the ground , and can obtain no return for a year ; the other can get it ground into flour , sell it as bread to his ...
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... farmer continues to employ one hundred men as before in the cultivation of corn . During the second year they will all have employed the same quantity of labour , but the goods and machine together of the clothier , and also of the ...
... farmer continues to employ one hundred men as before in the cultivation of corn . During the second year they will all have employed the same quantity of labour , but the goods and machine together of the clothier , and also of the ...
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... farmer , must not only obtain 5,500l . for the equal capitals of 50001. employed on labour , but they must obtain a further sum of 550l . for the profit on 5,500l . , which they have invested in machinery , and consequently their goods ...
... farmer , must not only obtain 5,500l . for the equal capitals of 50001. employed on labour , but they must obtain a further sum of 550l . for the profit on 5,500l . , which they have invested in machinery , and consequently their goods ...
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... farmer to his landlord . If , of two adjoining farms of the same extent , and of the same natural fertility , one had all the conveniences of farming buildings , and , besides , were properly drained and manured , and advantageously ...
... farmer to his landlord . If , of two adjoining farms of the same extent , and of the same natural fertility , one had all the conveniences of farming buildings , and , besides , were properly drained and manured , and advantageously ...
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... farmers to live like gentlemen , but would not diminish the quantity of labour necessary to raise raw produce on the ... farmer . It is greater or smaller according to the supposed extent of those powers , or , in other words , according ...
... farmers to live like gentlemen , but would not diminish the quantity of labour necessary to raise raw produce on the ... farmer . It is greater or smaller according to the supposed extent of those powers , or , in other words , according ...
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