CONTENTS. 



Xlll 



Use of Straw for Fodder and 

 Litter 170 



Manures; their management, 

 methods, and seasons of 

 applying 171 



Lime; its application, mode 

 of burning 173 



Marl ; great use of in Gaul and 

 Britain, described by Roman 

 Authors 175. 197 



Enclosures, Fences .... 175 



Use of Beer and Yeast . . .176 



Fallows ; their treatment ; 

 number, depth, direction, 

 and precision of Ploughings 178 



Cato's famous Maxim on the 

 use of the Plough and Dung 179 



Reprobation of ploughing 

 Land when wet .... 180 



Numerous forms of Plough in 

 use 180 



Wheat Sowing; questions of 

 early or late and of thick 



PACK 



or thin sowing; quantity of 

 seed per acre; return per 

 acre ; gradually declining 

 yield at successive periods. 



182-184 



Prices of Wheat and Rent of 

 Land at various periods of 

 Roman history ; rising Prices 

 and declining Rents in the 

 later periods 184 



Declension of Roman Agri- 

 culture ; its causes traced. 



184-188 



Distinction between Roman 

 and British modern Agri- 

 cultural Systems; exhaust- 

 ing and self-sustaining Pro- 

 cesses 188-195 



Observation son the Condition 

 of our British and Gallic 

 Ancestors and their Agri- 

 culture, derived from Roman 

 Authors . .196 



4. HIGH FARMING. 



PAGL 



The object of Farming is Gain ; 

 Profit the proof of good 

 Farming 203 



Definition of phrase High 

 Farming; data assumed as 

 to condition of Farms ; 

 Draining, Manuring, &c. 205-207 



Mr. Huxtable's statements of 

 the cost of Wheat Culture, 

 and its Return, examined 



208-213 



The theory of Manures, as re- 

 cognised by Mr. Huxtable, 

 Mr. Pusey, and others, ex- 

 amined and disputed . 213-218 



Mr. Huxtable's Experiments 

 in manufacturing Pork, and 

 Pig Manure ; his Conclu- 

 sions disputed . . . 218-221 



Mr. Huxtable's Calculations of 

 the profitable return from 

 Turnips in manufacturing 



Beef disputed ; protest 

 against Mr. Huxtable's Esti- 

 mates 221 



Mr. Milne's account of Mr. 

 Huxtable's, Mr. Rigden's, 

 and Mr. Morton's methods 

 of Farming, and outlay per 

 acre; Mr. Rigden's outlay 

 and returns compared . 222-224 



Mr. Caird's statement of the 

 Auchness Farm examined . 225 



Review of Mr. Pusey's Pamph- 

 let (1851); criticism on Che- 

 mical Theories ; economy of 

 good Farm Implements, 

 Threshing - Machines, &c. ; 

 Stack - yards ; Mr. Pusey's 

 ideas of Draining; demo- 

 lition of Hedge-rows; de- 

 struction of Game; Clay- 

 burning ; Water - meadows, 

 the Author's puzzle as to the 



