Occupying Ownership."A time there was, ere England's griefs began,When every rood of ground maintained its man,"Behold a change; where'er her flag unfurled,It presaged forth—goods-maker to the world.Then wealth from trade, pure farming handicappedWhile glittering towns the youthful swain entrapped.In trade, no longer, England stands alone,Indeed, too oft, John Bull gets "beaten on his own."Dependent on the world for nearly every crumb,Is this a time when patriots should be dumb?For England needs to guard 'gainst future strifeThat backing up which comes from rural life.Though all indeed may use both book and pen,The nation's weal depends on robust menInured to toil—a hardy, virile band.And these are bred where owners till the land.
"A time there was, ere England's griefs began,When every rood of ground maintained its man,"Behold a change; where'er her flag unfurled,It presaged forth—goods-maker to the world.Then wealth from trade, pure farming handicappedWhile glittering towns the youthful swain entrapped.In trade, no longer, England stands alone,Indeed, too oft, John Bull gets "beaten on his own."Dependent on the world for nearly every crumb,Is this a time when patriots should be dumb?For England needs to guard 'gainst future strifeThat backing up which comes from rural life.Though all indeed may use both book and pen,The nation's weal depends on robust menInured to toil—a hardy, virile band.And these are bred where owners till the land.
"A time there was, ere England's griefs began,When every rood of ground maintained its man,"Behold a change; where'er her flag unfurled,It presaged forth—goods-maker to the world.Then wealth from trade, pure farming handicappedWhile glittering towns the youthful swain entrapped.In trade, no longer, England stands alone,Indeed, too oft, John Bull gets "beaten on his own."Dependent on the world for nearly every crumb,Is this a time when patriots should be dumb?For England needs to guard 'gainst future strifeThat backing up which comes from rural life.Though all indeed may use both book and pen,The nation's weal depends on robust menInured to toil—a hardy, virile band.And these are bred where owners till the land.
Earl Carrington, President of the Board of Agriculture, presided at a meeting of the Society of Arts, when a paper upon the production of wheat was read by Mr. A. E. Humphries. His lordship gave some very interesting jottings from family history, showing the great advance that had taken place in the scale of living. The subject of the lecture, he said, reminded him that over 100 yearsago his grandfather, who was President of the Board of Agriculture, made a speech in which he said that one of the most important subjects with which the Board had to deal was the scarcity of wheat. It was curious that they were discussing the same subject to-day. His father, who was born 103 years ago, had often told him that in the early part of last century they did not have white bread at every meal, as it was so scarce. If that happened at the table of old Robert Smith, the banker, at Whitehall, what must the bread of the working classes have been like!
In the five years from 1878 to 1882, said Mr. Humphries in his lecture, we produced 117 lb. of wheat per head per annum, and imported 238 lb., while in the years from 1903 to 1907 we produced only 68 lb. per head, and imported 284 lb. For many years British wheat had been sold at substantially lower prices than the best foreign, and in the capacity of making large, shapely, well-aerated and digestible loaves the home-grown grain was notably deficient. It was commonly attributed to our climate, and people said that Great Britain was not a wheat producing country. The real reason was that farmer did not grow the right kind of wheat. It was not a matter of climate or of soil, but of catering for the particular kind of soil in which the grain was to be grown. The crux of the whole question was to obtain a variety of seed that would suit the environment. Farmers, instead of aimingat quality, had striven to get as large a yield per acre as possible.
The Hon. J. W. Taverner, Agent-General for Victoria, said that he had heard a lot of talk about the efficiency of the Territorial Army and the safety of the country. If only the men were fed on bread baked from Australian wheat England had nothing to fear, for the men would be equal to anything.
FOOTNOTESAFrom an article by the late John Just, M.A., of Bury.BKnott is also used for the name of a mountain or hill, as in Arnside Knott, in Westmoreland, but near the Lancashire border.CFrom Darvel—death and öl—feast.DThe ancestors of the poet were, however, more likely "Chaussiers," makers of long hose.EFrom "Free Trader," issued by the Liberal Free Traders, Dec., 1904.FFrom "The Hungry Forties," written by Mr. Cobden's daughter.GFrom Report of Agricultural Committee of the Tariff Commission.
AFrom an article by the late John Just, M.A., of Bury.
AFrom an article by the late John Just, M.A., of Bury.
BKnott is also used for the name of a mountain or hill, as in Arnside Knott, in Westmoreland, but near the Lancashire border.
BKnott is also used for the name of a mountain or hill, as in Arnside Knott, in Westmoreland, but near the Lancashire border.
CFrom Darvel—death and öl—feast.
CFrom Darvel—death and öl—feast.
DThe ancestors of the poet were, however, more likely "Chaussiers," makers of long hose.
DThe ancestors of the poet were, however, more likely "Chaussiers," makers of long hose.
EFrom "Free Trader," issued by the Liberal Free Traders, Dec., 1904.
EFrom "Free Trader," issued by the Liberal Free Traders, Dec., 1904.
FFrom "The Hungry Forties," written by Mr. Cobden's daughter.
FFrom "The Hungry Forties," written by Mr. Cobden's daughter.
GFrom Report of Agricultural Committee of the Tariff Commission.
GFrom Report of Agricultural Committee of the Tariff Commission.
INDEXAcle,28.Adamson,63.Adalis,32,38,39.Aella, King,24.Agriculture,215.Ainsdale,7.Aire,159.Ale,16.Alexandria,152.Alfgier,38–39.Alfred the Great (illust.),26,33.Altcar,23.Amleth,173.Amounderness,5.Anastasius,68.Anderson,63.Angel choir of Lincoln,170.Anglian population,17.Anlaby,13.Anlaf,25,32,35,36,37,41.Anstice,68.Aradr,112.Aratum,112.Arcle,28.Arnside Knott,48.Arncliffe,27.Art,174.Athelfloed, Lady of the Mercians,104.Athelstan,26,30,33,34,35,37,49.Asia,158.Augustin,68.Austin,68.Australia,158.Austria,158.Axle,28.Ayton (great),27.Back o'th' hill,40.Bacup,34.Balder,62.Ball (Olaf),53.Ballads and War Songs,172.Ballr,53.Balderstone,62.Bamber,84.Banbury,31.Bannister,68.Barker,68.Barrowford,32.Basket making,140.Bath-day,15.Battlefield,37.Battlestone,37.Beck,69.Beckett,69.Bede,49.Beer,16.Bellum Brun,35.Bernicia,24,25,50.Bessingby,18.Billingr,62.Birkdale,7.Birket,22.Bishop's House Estate,37.Bishop's leap,31,35.Blagburnshire hundred,5.'Blakogr,'28.Blawith,28.Blowick,28.'Boer,'84.'Bois,'69.'Bondr,'24.Bonfire hill,40.Booth,84.Boulsworth,32.Boys,69.Bractaetes,174.'Breck,'67.Bridlington,18.Britons,1.—— of Strathclyde,34.Broadclough Dykes,41.Broad Dyke,34.Broadbank,35.Brock,69.Brincaburh,30.Brinkburn,30.Bromborough,31.Brownedge,35,40.Brownend,40.Brownside,35.Brun,28,29.Brunanburh,28,31.Brunford,30.Brunton,31.Brumbridge,30.Brumby,31.'Bud,'84.Buerton,84.'Burh,'31.Burnley,29,48.Burscough,23.Burton,84.Burton-on-Trent,24.Bushel-corn,99.'By-law,'8.'Byr,'84.Byrom,84.Byzantine Coins,174.Cairns,185.Calday,22.Calders,22.Calderstones,22,182.Canute,5,177.Candlemas,155.Capenhurst,64.Castle hill—Tunlay,33–34.Cat's cradle,158.Causeway,33.Carnaby,18.Castercliffe,32,35.Celtic burial,185.Chapman,64.Cheap,64.Cheapside,64.Chepstow,64.Chester,4,23,163–164.Chester-le-street,53.Children's games,158.Childwall,23.Christian 'Sunday Letters,'153.Churches,163–164.Churchtown,164.Claughton-on-brock,124.Clitheroe,32,48.Clog almanacs,143.—— —— symbols,144.Coinage,175.Colne,32.Constantine, King of Scots,30.Copeland,64.Copeman,64.Copenhagen,64.Copethorn,64.Copley,64.Copynook,34.Corn spirit,158.Cottingham,13.Craik, Yorkshire,51.Crathorne,26.Crosby,6,23.Crosses,195.Croxteth,19.Cuerdale,7,28,175.Cumberland,53.Cuthbert, Saint,50,53.Cutherd, Bishop,53.Cup-cuttings,182.'Dale,'7.Danelag,8.Danes house,41.Darvel cakes,66.Darvel deathfeast,66.Dean,69.Deira,9,11,12,24.Dell,69.Derby,5.Dialect,69.Drengs,24.Eadred, Abbot of Carlisle,50.Eanfrid,25.Easden Fort,34.Easington,26.Ecclesiologist,156.Ecfrith,25.Edward the Elder,34.Edwin, King,24.Egbert (illust.),33.Eglis,39.Egyptian scholars,152.Ellerburn,27.Elston,62.Elswick,62.Emmott,41.Enderby,84.'Endr,'84.Endrod,84.Entwistle,84.Equinox, vernal,152.Ernot,35.Everett,68.Everard,68.Extwistle Hall,35.Facid,84.Facit,84.Fairs and Wakes,65.Fawcett,84.'Feldkirk,'31.Fire and sun worship,154.Folklore for children,157.Formby,6,23.Forseti,84.Foster,84.Fraisthorpe,62.Frankby,62.Fraser,62.Freyer,62.Frisby,62.Fry,62.Fryer,62.Furness,164.Fylde,5.'Gaard,'75.Galt,65.Gamelson,84.Gambleside,84.Gamul,84.'Gata,'54.Garnett,68.Garstang,75.Garswood,75.Garth,75.Garton,75.Geld,65.Godley,32,33.Golden numbers,144.'Gos,'69.Gosford,69.Grave mounds,184.Grindalbythe,18.Guthred, King,51,52.Hackenhurst,39.Haggate,36.Halfdan's death,51.Halfdene,13,15,26.Halton,121,125,177–179.—— Crosses,179.—— Torque,177.Hamilton Hill,36,40.Hamlet,173.Hapton,48.Harbreck,19.Harkirke,7,177.'Haugr,'6.Hay,55.Haydon Bridge,51.Hazel Edge,36.Hell Clough,40.Helm Wind,208.Heptarchy,25.Heriot,107.Hessle,18.Heysham,121.Highlawhill,36.'Hofs,'6.Horelaw pastures,36.'Hlith,'48.Hoe,112.Hogback stone,105,121,179.Hoop,48.Hope,48.Hopehead,48.Hopekirk,48.Hopeton,48.Howick,55.Hoylake,55.Hudleston,96.Hundred Court,14.Hutton John,96.Hurstwood,35.Husbandry,111,112.Hustings,8.Huyton,55.Hyngr, the Dane,37,38.Ida, King,24.Ingleby,50.Invasion and Conquest,1,2,3.Irby,22.Ireland,180.Irish Christians,180.Ivar,22.Jarls,49.Jarrow,26.Kell,65.Kellet,65.Kendal,164.Kingo, poet,170.Kirk Ella,17,18.Kirk Levington,27.Kirkby,6,18.Kirkby in Cleveland,27.Kirkby Lonsdale,164.Kirkby Misperton,27.Kirkby Moorside,27,164.Kirkby Stephen,164.Kirkdale,5,6,19,27.'Kirkja' Church,6.Knott End Mill,48.'Knotta,'48.Knottingley,48.Knut,48.'Knutr,'48.Knutsford,48.'Lake,' game,157.Land Tenure,90.Laugardag, bath day,15.Lawmen,23.Lay of Norse gods,173.Leamington,84.Lethbridge,48.Levishan,27.Lindsey,65.Lindisfarne,25.Litherland,48.Literature,168.—— 'skryke of day,'170.—— sunrise,170.Lithe,48.Lithgoe,48.Liverpool,23,47.Log-law,81.Long hundred,13.Long weight,13.Lonsdale,4.Loom, Danish,80.Lorton,51.Lorton-en-le-Morthen, Yorks.,33.'Lug-mark,'81.Lunar cycle,155.Lund,65.Lyster,65.Mackerfield,54.Maeshir,54.Maiden Way,51.Manchester,34.Manorial exaction,106.Manx Inscriptions,138.Memorials,161.'Merchet,'106.Mercia,25.Mercians, Lady of,34.—— rule,24.Mereclough,39.Mersey,34.'Messe staves,'142.Moons, changes,143.Mythology,189.Names, Norse and Anglo-Saxon,113.Neilson,56.Nelson, Admiral,56.Norns,189.Norse Festival,55.Northumberland, —.Northumbria,25,27,70.Nunnington,23,27.'Occupying ownership,'234.Odin,6,197.—— 'The descent of,'199.'Ol,'16.'Oller,'62.Olave, Saint,63.Oram,63.'Orm,'63.Orme,63.Ormerod,63.Ormesby,27.Ormeshaw,63.Ormside cup,131.Ormskirk,23,63.Ormstead,185.Osmotherley,27.'Osric,'25.'Oswald,'25.'Oter,'63.Otter,63.Ottley,63.'Oxl,'28.Oxton,22.Paton,85.Patronymics,60.'Pecthun,'85.Penda,25.Peyton,85.Phauranoth,152.Physical types,79.Picton,85.Picts,85,115.Picture,85.Piko,115.Place names,14–47.'Plogr. plov.,'112.Plough,112.Political Freemen,89.Preston,23.Prestune,23.Prim-staves,142.Prima-luna,142.Quakers,99.Raby,22.Rachdam,84.Ragnvald,52.Raven,115.Ravenshore,115.Ravensmeols,23.Rawtenstall,48.Red-Lees,33–36.Regnold of Bamborough,34.Ribble,29–34.'Ridings,' Yorkshire,9.Rimstock,143–144.'Rimur,'143.Rivington Pike,115.Roby,23.Rochdale,84.Roman days,26.Rooley,39.Rossendale,84.Round Hill,40.Royal Charters, Norse witnesses,15.Rûnâ,137.Runes,137.Runic Almanacs,141.—— Calender,155.—— Characters,143,153.—— 'Futhork,'139.—— Inscriptions,138.—— Monuments,181.'Ruthlie,'39.'Saetter,'22.Sagas,169,174.Salford hundred,5.Satterthwaite,22.Saxifield,30,35,42.Scarisbrick,67.Seacombe,22.Seascale,22.Seathwaithe,22.Sellafield,22.'Servi,'103.Settlements,12.Shakespere,193.Sherborne,37.Sheffield,35.Shotwick,17.Sieward, Earl,163.Sigurd-Story,179.Sinnington,23.'Sinfin,'39,40.'Sithric,' King,35.Skelmersdale,78.Skelton,27.Skidby,18.Skipper,55.Slavery abolition,103.'Socage,'16,20,21.Sochman,14,20.Sochmanni,19,91.Sochmanries,20.Socmen of Peterboro',105.Sodor and Man,83.Solar cycle,155.Speke,66.'Spika,'65.Statesmen,104.Stainton,26–7.Steadsmen,104.Stigand,68.Stiggins,68.'Stockstede,' Croxteth,23.Stokesley,26.Stone Crosses,119.Storeton,22.Sudreyjar,83.Sun,152.Superstitions,159,205.Sutherland,83.Swarbrick,67.Sweden 'lake' game,156.Swindene,40.S'winden water,37.S'winless lane,35,37.Tacitus, historian,138.'Tallage,'107.Tanshelf, Taddnesscylfe,28.Thane,16.Thelwall,23,34.'Thing,' trithing,8.Thinghow,28,50.Thingstead,28.Thingwall,8,13,28,50.'Thor,'62.Thorley,62.Thornaby,27.Thorold,38.Thorolf,38.Thursby,62.Thurstaston,62.Thurston water,38.Tingley,28,50.Torque,177.Towneley,33.Towthorp,18.Toxteth,23.Trawden,48.Tree-yggdrasil,180.'Trithing,'7,10.Trithing Court,14.Troughton,48.Trowbridge,48.'Trow'-trough,48.Turketul, Chancellor,39.Turton,62.Tursdale,62.Twist hill,40.Tynwald,8.Ullersthorpe,62.Ullscarth,28.Ullswater,28.Ulpha,23.Ulverston,62.Unthank,22.Valkyrs,199.Valour,199.'Vë,'62.Verstigan,143.'Viborg,'62.Viking age,178.Wallhalla,189.Walkyries,189.Wallasey,22.Walshaw,33.Walton le dale,5.Wandsworth,198.Wansborough,198.Wanstead,198.Wapentake,8–9.Warcock,28.Warcock-hill,36.Warthole,28.Warton,28.Warwick,28.Warrington,24.Watling street,33.Wavertree,22.Wearmouth,26.Wednesbury,198.Wednesday,198.Wellborough,27.West Derby,23.—— —— hundred,5.West Kirby,23.Whasset,63.Whitby,17,26,27.Whithorn,51.—— prior of,165.Wigton,62.Wigthorpe,62.Wilbeforce,62.Wild,64.Wilde,64.Wilding,63.Willerby,13.Willoughby,62.Windermere,22.Winewall,35.Winter Solstice,211.Widdop,36.Wirral,12,24.Woollen manufacture,64.Worsthorne,37.Worsthorne,36.Wulfric Spot,24.Wycollar,41.Wydale,62.Wylde,10.Wyre,62.Yarborg,84.Yarborough,84.Yarm,27.Yerburgh,84.Yggdrasil,189.Yorkshire children's folklore,114.Yule, origin,211.Zinga,181.Zodiac,152.Zoni,181.