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INDEX. 



XVII. Condition of the Laborers 133 



XVIII. Progress of Agriculture, compared with other Pursuits 144 



XIX. Actual Improvements in English Agriculture 148 



1. Draining, Irrigation, and Warping 148 



2. Live Stock and Vegetables 150 



3. Agricultural Implements 150 



4. Application of Steam to Agriculture 151 



5. Increased Production 159 



6. Royal Agricultural Society 160 



7. Agricultural Society of Scotland 160 



XX. Relation of Landlord and Tenant 167 



XXL Game and the Game Laws 173 



XXII. The Royal Agricultural Society of Ireland 175 



XXIII. Model Farm, and Agricultural School 179 



XXIV. Dublin Botanical Garden 186 



THIRD REPORT. 



XXV. Agricultural Education 189 



1. Glasnevin Agricultural School 196 



2. Templemoyle Agricultural School 203 



3. Brookfield Agricultural School 210 



4. Larne School 216 



5. School at Ealing 218 



6. Agricultural College at Cirencester 219 



XXVI. General Views of Agricultural Education 220 



XXVII. Influence of Knowledge upon Agriculture 223 



XXVIII. Sciences to be taught 225 



XXIX. Chemical Science 226 



XXX. Analysis of Soils 228 



Soils of Heaths 229 



XXXI. Natural Science 237 



XXXII. Model Farm 239 



XXXIII. Experimental Farm 240 



XXXIV. Economical Arrangements at the Agricultural College 240 



XXXV. Plan of an Agricultural Institution for the United States. ...244 



XXXVI. Elevation of Agriculture as a Pursuit and a Profession 248 



XXXVII. Rural Manners in England 251 



XXXVIII. A Pencil Sketch 252 



XXXIX. Life in the Country 256 



