INDEX 



Acts of Parliament: see Allotment Acts, Legis- 

 lative Action, Small Holdings Acts. 

 Agricultural Depression : 9, 46-49; 56, 76 f., 



82 f., 87 f., ioif., 108-13. 

 Agricultural Holdings Act: 138 f. 

 Agricultural Organisation Society, the: 152 n., 



190 f., 195, 197, 210. 



Agricultural Science: 15, 20, 41, 44, 48, 

 56 f., 59 f., 62-5, 68, 71 f., 79-81, 



83 f., 86, 96, 155, 160, 176 f., 182, 

 204, 208 f., 219-21. 



Agricultural revival: 87, 210. 



Alconbury : 24 a. 4. 



Alister, R. ; cited: 55. 



Allotment Acts : 51, 125, 126, 130, 141, 143. 



Allotments: 36 f., 42-44, 51-4, 64 n. 3, 66 f., 



88 f., 90, 92, 94, 96-8, 104-8, 1 10, 



in, 116, 122 f., 125, 130, 149, 157, 



158, i59 I<5 5 167, 175, 215, 217. 

 See also under Labourers' Holdings, 



Landlord^. 



Allowance System, the: 12. 

 Anderson, James; cited: 20, 27. 

 Anti-Corn Law League, the : 54 n. 3. 

 Arable districts : 65, 67-9, 103-5, IIO > 183 n., 



189. 

 Arable land : 



percentage of agricultural land; 103-5. 

 percentage on various units; 105. 

 Set also Corn-growing. 

 Arbuthnot, J. ; cited: 13, 19, 29, 39 n. 5. 

 Areas of various types of holding : 17, 88-90, 



92 f., 99. 



Artisans as small holders: 215-22. 

 Asquith, H. H. ; cited: 146. 

 Assmgton: 187 f. 

 Axholme, Isle of: 85, 90, 106, 107, 109 f., 



165, 189, 214. 

 Aylestone: 151 



Baggrow: 188. 



Bailiffs: 102, 161, 217. 



Baines, M. T.: 149. 



Bargaining ; large holder's advantage in : 



164 f. 



Baring, Sir Francis : 64. 

 Baskets, issued by G.E.R. : 196. 

 Batchelor, George: 216. 

 Beans: 13, 18, 209. 



Bear, W. E.; cited: 84, 85 n., 90 n., 107, 

 109 n., no, 140 n., 151, 164, 165 n., 

 183 n. 



Bedfordshire : 1 10. 



Belgard, M.; cited: 214. 



Birmingham: 116, 216. 



Blennerhasset : 188. 



Blyth, Sir James: 151. 



Board of Agriculture, the: 15, 29, 43, 51. 

 Reports published by: 29, 32. 



Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, the : 

 97 n., 125, 127 , 131, 147-9, '5* n- 



190, 221. 



Borrowing, by yeomen: 26. 



See also Mortgages. 

 Bounty on Corn : 10. 

 Brandsby: 193. 

 Bread: 9, 12, 13, 58, 201, 202 f., 210, 



212. 



Brodrick, G. C.; cited: 54, 123, 144. 

 Bromley: 179. 

 Brown, E. ; cited: 86. 

 Buildings, cost of: 23, 53, 65, 96, 120, 142, 



151, 156, 184-5, l8( >- 

 Bulls, prices obtained: 81. 

 Burn, R. S.; cited: 93 n., 163, 173, 178. 

 Business qualities: 218 ff. 

 Butter: see Dairying. 

 Buxton, C. R.; cited: 128. 

 Buying: 161, 188, 192. 

 By-employments: 66, 88 f., 90, 92, 156 f., 



215- 



Caird, Sir James; cited: 50, 55, 56, 58, 61, 



68, 72, 103, 104. 



Cambridgeshire: 8, 23 n. 5, 85, 107, 149. 

 Capital: 20, 21, 26, 44, 62, 71, 72, 74, 103, 



120, 132 f., 159, 166-8, 179 f., 185, 



201. 

 intensive application of; 63, 181, 203, 



211. 



security of tenants' capital; 138 f., 141. 

 Capitalist agriculture: 66, 123 f., 184, 198, 



212, 114, 221. 



Carrington, Lord: 94, 121, 115, 151. 

 Catshill: 2 1 6. 



Cattle-breeding, economics of: 168-72. 

 See also Cows, Pedigree Stock, Stock- 

 farming. 



