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Page 130
... farm the land besides ? My tenants are richer than most , yet I doubt if I have one able to do it , except by going in debt . Judge Longfield's whole scheme is a milder Ulster Tenant - right , honestly recognising in part the rights of ...
... farm the land besides ? My tenants are richer than most , yet I doubt if I have one able to do it , except by going in debt . Judge Longfield's whole scheme is a milder Ulster Tenant - right , honestly recognising in part the rights of ...
Page 131
... farm was fifty - two acres at 521. a year . It was good land , but for many years he had done nothing to it in manuring or anything else . Twice I have seen his corn left in the field till winter , being not worth paying labourers to ...
... farm was fifty - two acres at 521. a year . It was good land , but for many years he had done nothing to it in manuring or anything else . Twice I have seen his corn left in the field till winter , being not worth paying labourers to ...
Page 132
... farm , to be stripped bare of the capital needful to farm the land to a profit , for the gain of the rest of the family . Once Tenant - right is made compul- sory by law , there is an end of the landlord's power for good , though men in ...
... farm , to be stripped bare of the capital needful to farm the land to a profit , for the gain of the rest of the family . Once Tenant - right is made compul- sory by law , there is an end of the landlord's power for good , though men in ...
Page 133
... farm ? " Of course no one could answer the ques- tion . The claim of tenants who have not , with the assent of the landlord , paid their predecessors for Tenant - right , to receive a large sum on leaving the farm , is , as lawyers ...
... farm ? " Of course no one could answer the ques- tion . The claim of tenants who have not , with the assent of the landlord , paid their predecessors for Tenant - right , to receive a large sum on leaving the farm , is , as lawyers ...
Page 134
... farming , I assert there are very few farms in the South of Ire- land that by better farming would not yield more than double the produce , and pay double the rent , they now yield . Again and again when an ex- hausted farm was given up ...
... farming , I assert there are very few farms in the South of Ire- land that by better farming would not yield more than double the produce , and pay double the rent , they now yield . Again and again when an ex- hausted farm was given up ...
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