To those who, like myself, were brought up in agricultural districts, the notion that the labourer was a revolutionary seemed strangely unreal; but it was a haunting obsession in the minds of clubmen and town-dwellers.
When in 1885 the agricultural labourers (of whom a Tory M.
To secure the vote for the agricultural labourer seemed to be the first step towards the improvement of his lot.
Even ten years later, Lord Goschen, who was by nature distrustful of popular movements, prognosticated that, if ever the Union with Ireland were lost, it would be lost through the votes of the agricultural labourers.
Those who had been brought by early association into touch with the agricultural population knew only too well how deep and just was the discontent of the villages, and how keen the yearning for better chances.
To follow the "Mirage" of receding triumph through long years of hope deferred was the lot of Labour generally, and it was especially the lot of agricultural labour.
He sate for Bedfordshire till the dissolution of that year, when he retired, feeling that Free Trade was indeed bound to come, but that it would be disastrous for the agricultural community which he represented.
Groups must work within the parties, as the agricultural bloc has done and as the proposed liberal workers bloc promises to do.
Party authority vested in the Executive thus impaired, it was not long before the representatives ofagricultural states also denied it, and began to take their orders from the Farm Bureau Federation instead of from the White House.
Practically the farmers, having the balance of power in the House and Senate, say what rates they want on agricultural products and get them.
Moreover most of the industrial States have also their agricultural interest.
Being agricultural it is vaguely sectional; being the projection of a single interest into national politics so as to cut across parties, it follows European precedents.
Some of them will appear as definitely upon the floor of the 1924 convention as the agricultural group has upon the floor of Congress.
You have only to regard the agricultural bloc to perceive the truth of this analysis.
This made for the rapid economic development of the principalities by providing an outlet for their agricultural produce, the chief source of their wealth.
Trikoupis came into power in 1882, just after the acquisition of the rich agricultural province of Thessaly under the Treaty of Berlin had given the kingdom a fresh start.
The former remained for a long time under Slav influence, the extent of which is shown by the large number of words of Slav origin contained in the Rumanian language, especially in geographical and agricultural terminology.
The Anatolian population is a sober, labouring peasantry, essentially agriculturaland wedded to the soil.
Other bulletins giving the results of the manufacturing and agriculturalinquiries will be given to the public as rapidly as circumstances will admit.
The outlook for the education of the young farmer through agricultural college and experiment station, with opportunity given to specialize in the Department of Agriculture, is very promising.
The Assistant Secretaries of State, Treasury, War, Navy, Interior andAgricultural Departments.
A very extensive and complete exhibit of theagricultural and horticultural products of the United States is being prepared for the Paris Exposition.
This will enable the smaller villages and agricultural regions of the country to be supplied with currency to meet their needs.
To-day fully two-thirds of the churches of the Congregational faith in the state are of Welsh origin, and barring a few in agricultural regions all are among miners or mill hands, joyfully affording the privileges of the Gospel to the poor.
In Kansas the State Normal School, State Agricultural College and the State University were founded by Home Missionaries.
The men plough with the zho, or hybrid yak, and the women break the clods and share in all otheragricultural operations.
The committee on definitions and standards for the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists has now undertaken to define the proper use of type names.
The figures[1] in Tables I and II are compiled and averaged from a large number of analyses made at different agricultural experiment stations.
Its development has been largely coincident with the development of the agricultural school and the science of dairy biology.
Bulletin 78 of the Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station: "The racks are rectangular, thirteen inches wide, thirty-six inches long and ten inches deep.
However, Wisconsin is credited with more cheese in 1909 than New York ever produced and this output probably will increase, as there are considerable areas of undeveloped agricultural land in Wisconsin.
This is an example of the great changes in agricultural practice.
In some states the agricultural experiment stations examine all glassware and mark it to make certain that it conforms to the requirements of the state law.
Approximately the same figures are given by Primrose McConnell (Agricultural Note Book).
Bulletins of the Agricultural Experiment Stations and United States Department of Agriculture have been quoted extensively, with citation of the sources of the material.
An agricultural people, whose chief interest is the export of a commodity required in every manufacturing country, our true policy is peace and the freest trade which our necessities will permit.
The North was manufacturing and commercial, while the South was purely agricultural in its means; hence the incomparable rapidity with which the Federal Government accumulated shipping of every character.
It had been made to go to a clearing, where ambitious agricultural operations were being inaugurated, when Herr Liebert hurt his foot.
Yeast pictures the condition of agricultural labour, Alton Locke that of labour in crowded cities.
The agricultural ventures of the Guild are an admitted failure; one or two of the efforts to plant village industries have had some measure of success, and seem capable of doing good within narrow limits.
Parliament was more than once pressed to meet the high price of bread and the distress of the agricultural poor by fixing a minimum for wages.
The life of the agricultural poor though hard was not intolerable; landowners lived upon their estates and directed local affairs, and the poor were at least kept from starvation.
Holdings were subdivided, and, as the agricultural population was large, were eagerly taken at high rents.
Whitbread for the second time brought in a bill for the regulation of the wages of agricultural labourers; Pitt opposed it on sound economic grounds and it was again rejected.
A semblance of support, at least, he secured through his patronage of Scott’s favorite, William Laidlaw, whose agricultural chronicles ran for a time as one of the regular features.
When our expedition was preparing, Captain Marmaduke commissioned Jensen to buy a store of all manner of agricultural and household implements and utensils for the use of the young colony.
But we never did suspect it, and when the time came for us to leave the ship in a hurry we had little thought in our minds of taking agricultural implements or household gear or articles of barter with us.
It was late in the afternoon on Saturday, July 10th, when I bade adieu to Stratford, and went away rejoicing, in the hope of soon seeing the beauties of England's most charming agricultural section.
This gentleman explained to me theagricultural institutions of Holland.
He described much of it as patently fit for agricultural purposes.
Bass, a farmer's son, reared in an agricultural centre, was a capable judge of good country, but of course there was nothing when he saw these rich lands to foretell an era of railways and refrigerating machinery.
In the days of its prosperity Donington drew to itself the business of an agricultural neighbourhood which was so far cultivable as it rose above the level of desolate and foggy swamps.
Everywhere there is hope of abundance of great agricultural wealth.
Much of the country adjacent to the St. Lawrence on the south is rolling and hilly and contains large tracts of rich agricultural land which is highly favourable for dairying and sheep-raising.
As described by Hayden, this State may be divided into two portions, one agricultural and the other pastoral.
The Great Basin proper, with its rugged topography and arid climate, is not an agricultural region.
No attempt has been made by the United States Government to place them on reservations, and this will probably not occur, as the white man does not wish their lands for agricultural purposes.
The eastern part, included in the Prairie plains, contains some of the most beautiful, gently rolling, and fertile agricultural lands in America.
Inland from the coastal swamps the surface becomes higher, is for the most part well drained, and when not too sandy furnishes rich agricultural lands.
It embraces the northern portion of the truly agricultural lands of the continent.
The Patent Office, which would repay a week's careful study, was hurriedly inspected, and the Post Office and Agricultural Department shared the same fate.
I am like the rest of my kind; I have no money to chuck away in building schemes, in order that the rector of the parish may pose as the apostle of the agricultural labourer.
Of course that old problem of the agricultural labourer weighed upon him--his grievances, his wants.
The same contrast, between an innocent style of narrative and the huge palpable nonsense of the story told, marks the tale of the agricultural newspaper which Mr. Twain edited.
Again, while studying the narrative of how Mark edited an agricultural paper in a country district, a person with any sense of humour is scarcely a responsible being.
Then, there was the case of an obscure weekly paper published in the county town of an agricultural district in Wales.
And he was not murdered for his wealth, since agricultural laborers are not wealthy.
It seems, then, that, so far as her agricultural capabilities are concerned, Nevada might sustain at least as many people as do Utah and Colorado put together, at their present stage of development.
Its effect in reducing the rates was immediate; its effect in raising the character of the agricultural poor was not very long deferred.
Such restlessness as there was prevailed among farmers and agricultural labourers rather than among workmen in the manufacturing districts, and in 1823 every branch of manufactures was reported to be flourishing.
While Ireland was torn by faction, and the Orangemen of Ulster rivalled in lawlessness the catholics of the other provinces, England was undergoing another period of agricultural and commercial depression.
A partial explanation may be found in the fact that what they saved in wages they lost in poor rates, and that most agricultural products except corn were sold at a very small profit.
Moreover, the corn laws, though framed for the purpose of arresting fluctuations in price, actually increased fluctuations and thus enhanced the risks attending agricultural enterprise.
The farmers, dependent on their landlords and closely allied with them in defending the corn laws, proved more submissive to influence, and constituted the backbone of the great agricultural interest.
Not less remarkable was the effect of mechanical science in the development of new agricultural implements, which, however, retained a comparatively rude form of construction.
In these four counties there was a wanton and wholesale destruction of agricultural machinery, of farm-buildings, and especially of ricks, as if the misery of labourers could possibly be cured by impoverishing their only employers.
In this year complaints of agricultural distress once more became urgent, and a committee was appointed by the house of commons, as in 1833, to inquire into its cause.
Distrust of the government was equally shown in the counties and in the great cities, but in some instances ultra-tories were elected, in revenge for catholic emancipation or for alleged neglect of agricultural interests.
But, so far as I know, there is not a trace to be found in any of Disraeli's utterances that he wished to widen the basis of agricultural conservatism by creating a peasant proprietary class.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "agricultural" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: agrarian; bucolic; country; farm; farming; pastoral; provincial; rural; rustic; upland
