284 



ENGLISH FARMING 



BAK 



Bakewell (Robert), 49 ; his experi- 

 ments in sheep and cattle breed- 

 ing, 51 



Balks, 5 



Belgium, land tenure of, 142 



Billyngdon (Thomas) j'ields his 

 right of common, 27 



Blith, advocates drainage, 33 sqq. ; 

 quoted, 31, 95, 115 



Bolingbroke, his interest in agri- 

 culture, 78 



Bones first used as manure, 80 



Bordars, 10 



Bounty system, 41 ; table of 

 amounts, &c., paid under the, 

 254 



Bradley's description of Essex 

 drains, 43 



Burke, engaged in an agricultural 

 experiment, 79 



Butts, 5 



CAIRD (SIR JAMES) recom- 

 mends high farming, 105 ; ob- 

 tains agricultural statistics, 113; 

 quoted, 167 ; his estimate of 

 rentals, 168 note 



Camden's description of the 

 Gloucestershire sheep-cots, 49 



Cassel, farmers' conference at, 130 



Castle Combe, Domesday survey 

 of, 15 



Cattle, old notions of breeding, 

 50; Bakewell's attempt to im- 

 prove, 59 ; Mr. Coke's improve- 

 ments in feeding and breeding, 

 80 



Cattle plague in eighteenth cen- 

 tury, 39 ; risk of, 212 



Census, agricultural, for last four 

 decades, 260 



Chaucer (Geoffrey) quoted, 5 note, 

 9, 14 



Chemistry, services of, to agricul- 

 ture, 99, 109 



Cheviot sheep improved on Bake- 

 well's princiiiles, 52 



Church rates, 202 sqq. ; tables of, 

 275 



Civil wars, effect of, on agricul- 

 ture, 32 



COT 



Clay lands, drainage of, 95 

 Climate, deterioration of, after 



1764, 40 

 Clover, first successful cultivation 

 of, in England, 32 ; field cul- 

 tivation of, by Townshend, 46 j 

 ignorance respecting, 62 

 Coinage, condition of, in Tudor 



times, 25 

 Coke (Judge) prohibits enclosures- 



at Stratford, 28 

 Coke (Mr., afterwards Earl of 

 Leicester), his agricultural im- 

 provements, 79 

 Ceiling's (Chas.) Ketton cattle, 53^ 

 Common, rights of, their origin, 

 8 ; their threefold nature, 18 ; 

 agreements made to extinguish, 

 19 ; example of their commuta- 

 tion by private contract, 27 

 Common-field system of hus- 

 bandry, 3 ; its connection with 

 the disturbances in Skye, 7 ; 

 extent of its prevalence in 1794, 

 56 ; its condemnation and down- 

 fall, 65 

 Commons, enclosures of, com- 

 menced, 18 ; how effected, 26 ; 

 prohibited by law at Welcombe, 

 28 ; Board of Agriculture's re- 

 commendations respecting, 70 ; 

 a national necessity, 74 ; at- 

 tended with suffering to the 

 labourers, 74 

 Compensation for tenants' im- 

 provements, 216 

 Conquest, the, its effect on agri- 

 culture, 8 

 Corn, bounties on exports of, 41, 

 254 ; prices of, 12, 25, 26. See 

 also Wheat, &c. 

 Corn laws, earliest, 21 ; table of, 

 252 ; condition of farming during 

 the period of their greatest 

 stringency, 87 ; abolition of, its 

 effect on farming, 106; social, 

 of Henry VII., 246 

 Corn-weeding in the Middle Ages, 



11 

 Cotswolds, the, and sheep-cotting, 

 49 ; common fields in, at the 

 end of the last centurj^ 57 



