Author: FRANKLAND, J.
Title: Northumberland. Calculation of the expense of cultivation of one acre of wheat, barley, and oats, on land worth two pound an acre.
Description: [Alnwick?]: N.P., N.D. (c.1840). Single sheet folded to 2 leaves with second leaf blank, caption title, text tables. Frankland establishes, with calculations, that growing wheat is 'ruinous', oats and barley profitable, and argues for the imposition of a protective tariff on imported wheat - almost certainly as part of the discussion on the retention of the Corn Laws in the 1840's. The author is probably Major John Frankland, gentleman farmer of Branton, near Wooler.

Keywords: Local History North East England Agriculture Economics


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