INDEX. 



Abbs Court, Lord Halifax at, 172. 



Aherdeen- Angus Polled Herd-Book, 

 The, 373. 



Abraham man, the, 76. 



Acorns, bread made from, 84. 



Acorn fever, the, 386. 



Acreage of England and Wales, 145 ; 

 in 1688, 455, 464, 465 ; unen- 

 closed, in 1696, 152 ; in eighteenth 

 century, 154. 



Acts of Parliament affecting the Corn 

 Trade, 1360-1869, U2 seq. 



Actus, the Roman, 279. 



Addington, Stephen, his Inquiry into 

 the Reasons for and against inclosing 

 Open Fields, 303. 



Adulteration of food-stuffs, 379, 381. 



" Advantage-bread," 449. 



Affers, 12. 



Agistment, on commons, 27, 158. 



Agriculture, under Elizabeth, 91 seq. ; 

 under James I., 104 ; advance of, 

 in eighteenth and nineteenth cen- 

 turies, 148 ; fashionable, under 

 George II., 173 ; and George III., 

 207; in 1837, 346; (1837-1846), 

 370; (1850-1851), 370; (1853- 

 1862), 370; (1853-1874), 372; 

 (1874-1885), 374 seq., 382; (1883- 

 1890), 380; (1891-1899), 374, 380 ; 

 in 1901, 382 ; in 1888 and 1912, 

 393 56?.; in 1837 and 1912, 346, 

 353, 354, 355 ; advance but small 

 since " the fifties," 346 ; " apron 

 string " farmers, 348 ; branches 

 of, in modern times, 383 ; com- 

 mercial basis, organisation of, on 

 a, 48, 205, 290, 407, 413, 414; 

 Departixient of Agriculture, a, 379 ; 

 drainage in modern times, 362- 

 365 ; extravagance blamed for 

 distress, 347 : not altogether justly, 

 348 ; essentially different from 

 manufacture, 383 ; economic, etc., 

 problems not to be solved in the 

 same way as urban, 417 ; founda- 

 tion and administration of the 

 Royal Agricultural Society, q.v. ; 



low level of agriculture in 1837, 

 355 ; notable improvements in 

 1837-74, 361 ; manures, 364-368 ; 

 education, q.v. ; depression of 

 agricultural industry, from 1814, 

 322 seq. : reorganisation of, 325. 



Agriculture, The Annals of, and 

 Robert Bakewell, 185 ; started by 

 Arthur Young, 196 ; George III. 

 a contributor to, 196, 207 : on 

 enclosure, 307. 



Agriculture, Board of, established by 

 Pitt in 1793, 196, 209 ; Reports 

 to, 225 seq. (and see Reports) ; 

 Report of 1795, on uncultivated 

 lands, 152 ; Sir Humphry Davy's 

 lectures in 1803, 216, 359 ; and 

 the Enclosure Bill of 1800, 251 ; 

 on open-fields, 157 ; on voluntary 

 enclosure, 162 ; Communications 

 to the Board of Agriculture, 314 ; 

 dissolved in 1822, 359 ; recom- 

 mended potatoes, 135 ; (at the 

 present day) article in Nineteenth 

 Century for April, 1889, 400 ; 

 responsibilities transferred from 

 private owners to the State, 400. 



Agriculture, Chambers of. Central 

 and Associated Chambers founded 

 in 1866, 405. 



Agricultural Committee, of 1833, 

 326 ; of 1836, 325, 326. 



Agricultural Commission of 1879 

 (Duke of Richmond's), 377, 378, 

 380, 410. 



Agricultural Customs, Select Com- 

 "^mittee on, of 1848, 370. 



Agricultural Gazette, The, 361. 



Agricultural Holdings Act, of 1875, 

 379, 405 ; of 1908, 406. 



Agricultural Labourers' Union, the, 

 410 ; initial success of, 410 ; defeat 

 of, in 1874, 411 ; and the Federal 

 Union, 411. 



Agricultural Population, Census Re- 

 turns for 1851, 1861 and 1871, 460 ; 

 for 1881, 1891 and 1901, 461. 



Agricultural Rates Act of 1896, 382. 



