INDEX 



285 



cou 



County rates, 202 sqq. ; tables of, 

 275 



Crabbe's description of SuflEolk, 43 



Crag, a fertiliser used in Suffolk, 

 43 



Crinon (Hector), his description of 

 French peasantry, 136 



Crustie of land, 5 



Currency questions, connection of, 

 with agricultural depression, 

 116; metallic, of principal coun- 

 tries, 262 



DAIRY and livestock farming, 221 



Dales and dalesmen, 5 



Deanston, Smith's thorough drain- 

 age experiment at, 97 



Demesne land, 9 



Denmark, land laws of, 143 



Devon cattle, Scott's anachronism 

 about, 53 



Devonshire, absence of village 

 communities in, 3 



Dishley, stock-breeding at, 51 



Distress between 1812andl845, 88 ; 

 agricultural, connection of cur- 

 rency questions with, 116 ; self- 

 help the best remedy for, 211 



Doles, balloting for, 6 



Domesday, New, 155 



Drage, a kind of barley, 13 



Drainage, advocacy of, by Blith, 

 33 ; works carried out in the fen 

 district in the seventeenth cen- 

 tury, 35 ; a doggerel poem de- 

 nouncing, 35 ; Siiliolk and Essex 

 systems of, 43 ; provided for 

 clay farms, 95 



Drills, corn, 101 



EDGEWORTH (MISS), popularity 

 of her ' Essay on Irish Bulls,' 79 



Education, agricultural, in France, 

 149, 190, 196 ; in other countries, 

 191; need of , for England, 189 



Edward III. establishes the wool- 

 len manufacture, 22 



Elkington (James), drainage sys- 

 tem" of, 96 



Emigration, 234, 241 



Enclosures, beginning of, 18; their 

 effect on the peasantry, 20 ; 

 high-handed, 26 ; an instance 

 from Kennet's ' Parochial An- 

 tiquities,' 27 ; extent of, towards 

 the close of the reign of George 

 III., 38 ; profits derivable from, 

 68 ; recommendations of the 

 Board of Agriculture respecting, 

 70 ; empowered by Acts of Par- 

 liament, 71 ; not followed by de- 

 population, 72 ; hardships caused 

 to the labouring population by, 

 73 ; the gain to the nation, 74 ; 

 increase of, in 1810-14, 89 ; 

 table of, since 1700, 257 



Erskine a student at Holkham, 82 



Essex, bad roads of, 60 



FAMINE, a frequent result of 

 mediaeval agriculture, 11 



Farm work in feudal times, 10 



Farmers, ignorance of, 59 ; force 

 of traditional customs among, 

 61 ; effects of manufactm'ing 

 development on their condition, 

 67; small freeholding or yeomen, 

 suppressed, 83 ; distress among, 

 after the war, 90; im^Droved class 

 of , 1 1 1 ; popular views of distress 

 among, 115 ; effect of the de- 

 pression on, 124, 159 ; foreign, 

 present condition of, 129 ; im- 

 portance of agricultural educa- 

 tion to, 194 ; profession of, 214 ; 

 their want of security for im- 

 provements, 216 



Farming, characteristics of, in 

 feudal times, 1 1 ; increased in- 

 terest in, in the sixteenth cen- 

 tury, 29 ; high, a consequence of 

 free trade, 106; future of, 211 ; 

 livestock and dairy, 213, 220 



— common-field system of, 3 ; 

 extent to which it prevailed to- 

 wards the end of the eighteenth 

 century, 56 ; necessity of its 

 abolition, 65 



Fens, drainage of the, in the 

 seventeenth century, 34 ; oppo- 

 sition of the f enmen, 35 ; shock- 



