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Title: The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Beach, Frederick Converse, 1848-1918 Rines, George Edwin, 1860-
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ing place; a decrease in the acreage undercereals and green crops and an increase in thearea under meadow and clover. The followingtable shows the distribution of the cultivatedarea, given in acres, the first years of the pres-ent century: Green Clover Year Cereals crops Flax and hay Pasture1900.. .1,347,189 1,098,377 47,451 1,218,717 11,510,3701901.. .1,317,574 1,079,443 55.442 1,233,770 11,522,0601902.. .1,306,398 1,070,449 49,746 1,228,498 n,575,592 The number of acres of farm land not undercrops, but resting, was, in 1900, 12,589; in1901, 10,886; and in 1902, 9,558. Between 1851 and 1881 the farms of 1 to 15acres decreased in number by 66,363. The totalnumber of holdings in 1891 was 486,865, or12,244 less than in 1881. Of these 18,243 (1,364more than in 1881) did not exceed I acre, 55,584(decrease of 6,197) were from 1 to 5 acres, 139,-195 (8,628 decrease) from 5 to 15 acres, 120,472(2,045 decrease) from 15 to 30 acres, and I39,4°l*i (3,262 increase) above 30 acres. Each province
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JOHN IRELAND. AKCHIilSHOl OF ST. PALL. IRELAND shows .1 decrease in the ti tal number of holdings, but iii Munster the number is very small.Between iS.;i and (899 there was a t>>t:il decreasein holdings above 1 iicre of 25 per cent. The Land Vet of 1870 greatly improved theconditions ol tenure in Ireland. The chief aimsof the act were to provide compensation to ten-ants for arbitrary eviction, and especially forimprovements effected by them on their hold-ings in ease of their being disturbed in theirpossession by the landlords, and to afford facil-ities to tenants for the purchase of their hold-ings. The act legalized what is called the Ulstertenant-right custom in all the districts in whichit prevailed, and decreed the amount of com-pensation to he awarded in absence of such cus-tom. In 1881 it was supplemented by a morethorough and comprehensive measure. The ben-efits conferred on Irish tenants by this act werebriefly summarized under the terms fair rent,fixity of tenure, and

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