CONTENTS xiii 



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Land — Necessity of securing them against Rise of Rent based 

 upon their own Outlay of Capital — Defects of Agricultural 

 Holdings Acts of 1875 and 1883 — Proposed Scheme to secure 

 them Compensation — Freedom in Contract from Antiquated 

 Restrictions — Sliding Scale in Rents — Reaction apparently 

 imminent from Corn-growing to Meat and Dairy Farming — 

 Advantages of diversified Husbandry ..... 211 



CHAPTER XIX. 



AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS. 



Agricultural Labourers as yet the smallest sufferers from Agricul- 

 tural Depression — Improvements in their Moral and Material 

 Circumstances — Three Wants of their present Condition — 

 Peasant Tenancies ; Means of providing necessary Cajoital — 

 Good Prospects for Agricultural Labourers who become Small 

 Farmers or secure regular Employment — Allotments — Proba- 

 ble Dismissal of large Numbers of Labourers — No possible 

 Restoration of Balance between Demand and Supply of 

 Labour except Emigration 224 



CHAPTER XX. 



CONCLUSION 236 



APPENDICES 



I. Prices of Wheat 243 



II. Social Corn Laws 246 



III. Agricultural Writers of the 16th, 17th, and first half of 18th 



Centuries 248 



IV. The Corn Laws 252 



V. Enclosures 257 



VI. Questions of the Board of Agriculture, 1816 . . . . 258 



VII. Estimate of the Agricultural Population in 1688, and 



Census Returns of 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881 . . .259 



