INDEX. 



ACR 



ACREAGE, tables of, since 1866, 

 264 



Agricultural Holdings Acts, 217 



Agriculture, Board of, inquiry 

 made in 1816 by, 40, 90 ; ques- 

 tions appended to their circular 

 letter, 258 ; their reports and 

 recommendations on enclosures, 

 69 



Agriculture, early systems of, 1 ; 

 characteristics of, during the 

 Middle Ages, 11 ; pursuit of, by 

 the monks, 1 4 ; first revolution 

 in, from tillage to pasture, 17 ; 

 early literature of, 29, 248 ; con- 

 dition of, in the seventeenth 

 century, 31 ; general view of, in 

 the eighteenth century, 38-41 ; 

 obstacles to the advance of, 55 ; 

 second revolution in, from pas- 

 ture to tillage, aided by manu- 

 facturing development, 64 ; 

 effects of enclosure legislation 

 on, 74 ; stimulus imparted to, 

 by improved transport and com- 

 munication, 78 ; scientific prac- 

 tice of, in the present century, 

 86 ; condition of, during the 

 disastrous period of 1812-45, 

 87; progress of, from 1845 to 

 1873, 104 ; publication of statis- 

 tics relating to, 113 ; the present 

 collapse of, its causes, 115, 236 ; 

 its remedies, 125, 128, 155, 237 ; 

 effects of monetary disturbances 

 on, 25, 38, 88, 90 ; French and 

 English, compared, 132 ; im- 

 provements in EngUsh, all 



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effected by private enterprise, 

 148 ; public teaching of, in 

 France, 149; small number in 

 England of those now occupied 

 in, 158; bearing of the tithe- 

 question on, 166 ; education in, 

 required for England, 189, 238 ; 

 need of a State department of, 

 195 ; discouraged by presenti 

 railway rates, 197, 238 ; and by 

 unfair incidence of local taxa- 

 tion, 201 ; signs of a third revo- 

 lution in, to meat and dairy 

 farming, 213 ; tables of statis- 

 tics relating to, 264 

 Allotments, labourers', 231 ; table 



of, 277 

 Althorp (Lord), his devotion to 



agriculture, 79 

 American competition, 121 

 Arable farming, increased atten- 

 tion to, after the Revolution, 41 

 — land, first separation of, from 

 pasture, 3 ; crops of, in the 

 Middle Ages, 12 

 Aristocracy, mediaeval, despised 



farming, 14 

 Aston Boges, old village customs 

 at, 3 ; cultivation on the old 

 system at, in the present cen- 

 tury, 57 

 Australia, land registration system 



of, 184 

 Austria, agricultural education in, 

 191 



BA.CON (LORD) on manure, 99 



