LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



An English Countryside ....... Frontispiece 



Map showing ' Three Field ' System ....... 6 



A Mediaeval Harrow. From a fifteenth-century wood carving . . 24 

 A Modern Harrow .......... 25 



Sowing by hand. Flemish Horse of the century ..... 28 



Sowing with a modern Horse-drill . . . . . . .29 



Chillingham Wild White Cattle, 1794. From Bailey's and Culley's 



Survey of Agriculture in Northumberland, 1795) . . . 31 



Ploughing and Digging, second half of fifteenth century. (From Dance 



MS. 374. Miracles of the Virgin 38 



Parts of a Modern Plough . . . . . . . .39 



Reaping with a Sickle. (Queen Mary's Psalter. Royal MS. zE VII 



Brit. Mus. Early fourteenth century) ...... 43 



Model of McCormick's Reaper shown in 1851. By the courtesy of Messrs. 



Cassell & Co., Ltd 43 



Motor Tractor pulling a Modern Reaping Machine. Photograph by E. A. 



Underwood^ supplied by the Crawley Agrimotor Co. ... 43 

 Jethro Tull. (From a contemporary painting. By permission of the 



Royal Agricultural Society) 56 



Jethro Tull's Wheat Drill 57 



Shorthorn Bull (Comet), 1810 (by courtesy of the Shorthorn Society) . 60 



Shorthorn Bull (Bridgebank Paymaster), 1921 61 



A Cheviot Ram, 1794. (From Survey of Agriculture in Northumberland, 



1795) 62 



A Cheviot Ram, 1921 (The Conqueror) 63 



A view of the First Royal Show at Oxford, 17 July, 1839 75 



Threshing with Flails. (Queen Mary's Psalter. Royal MS. zB VII Brit. 



Mus., Early sixteenth century) ....... 78 



A Hand-Threshing Mill. (From Mavor's Survey of Agriculture in Berkshire, 



1808) ._ 78 



A Water-Threshing Mill. Erected at Chillingham in 1789. (From Survey 



of Agriculture in Northumberland, 1795) ..... 79 



A Threshing Machine exhibited in 1851. Slight & Browix, Farm Imple- 

 ments and Machines, 1858 ........ 79 



The Norfolk Plough (1796) showing type of team-horses. (From Kent's 



General View of the Agriculture of Norfolk) .... 90 



A Shire Stallion. (Field Marshal 5th) 9 ! 



A Clydesdale Stallion. (Dunure Footprint.) Photograph by A. Brown 



& Co 9! 



A Survival. Ploughing with oxen on the Cots wolds. Photograph by 



P. Simms ........... 04 



A Modern Motor-plough. Photograph by E. A. Underwood, supplied by 



the Crawley Agrimotor Co. ....... 95 



