286 



ENGLISH FARMING 



FEU 



ing condition of the east and 

 west fens in the succeeding 

 century, 36 



Feudalism, agriculture under, 9 ; 

 emancipation of the land from, 

 37 



Fitzherbert.writings of, 29; quoted, 

 5, 18, 19, 21,45, 110 



Flat, an ancient division of land, 4 



Flemish wool-workers settled in 

 England, 22 



Fleta on trinity fields, 3 ; his esti- 

 mate of wheat cultivation, 11 



Fluke, disease in sheep, Fitzher- 

 bert's theory of, 29 ; extraor- 

 dinary nostrum for, 59 



Foreign competition, 121, 211 ; 

 felt in other countries than 

 England, 161 ; extent of, 211 



Fortescue's reason for the English 

 victories over the French, 15 



Fothers, 5 



Fox (C. J.), his interest in agri- 

 cultui-e, 79 



France, agriculture and peasant 

 proprietorship in, 132; peasant 

 life in, 136 ; land tenure of, 141 ; 

 State aid to agriculture in, 149, 

 190; illustration of its practical 

 working, 196 ; estimates of land 

 distribution in, 158 note ; me- 

 tatjage in, 228 



Free trade, efEect of, on f arming,106 



Furlong, an ancient division of 

 land, 4 



GAME laws, 215 



Gardening, revival of, in the seven- 

 teenth century, 31 



Garstons, 3 



GeoloRy, services of, to agriculture, 

 100^ 109 



George III., farming tastes of, 79 



Germany, depression of farming 

 in, 130 ; agrarian legislation of, 

 142 ; agricultural education in, 

 191 



Gilbert (Dr.), 109, 114 



Gold, supply of, its relation to agri- 

 cultural depression, 119 ; tables 

 showing production of, 261 



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Gores, 5 



Goschen (Rt. Hon. G. J.) quoted, 



160, 205 

 Grain crops in the Middle Ages, 13 

 Grasses, artificial, culture of, 108 

 Gresley (Sir T.), cattle-breeding 



by, 52 

 Grey (John, of Dilston) establishes 



farming in Northumberland, 102 

 Guano, British, 99 



HALSBURY (LORD), Land Bill 



of, 182, 184, 187 



Hams, 6 



Harrison quoted, 13 note, 26 ; his 

 theory of sheep rot, 29 



Hartlib, his remedy for fluke, 59 ; 

 his enumeration of manures, 99 

 7iote;\As notices of agriculture in 

 the seventeenth century, 31 sqq. 



Harvesting in the Middle Ages, 12 



Harvests, bad, as a cause of the 

 present depression, 121 



Hawsted Manor in the fourteenth 

 century, 11 ; lease covenant re- 

 specting manure at, 44 



Hedges, prevalence of, in Devon- 

 shire, 3 ; construction of, in the 

 eighteenth century, 7 ; Henry 

 VII., laws of, against pasture 

 farms, 246 



Henslow (Professor) shows the use 

 of coprolites for manure, 100 



Heraldry, illustration of contempt 

 for farming from, 14 



Herefordshire, roads of, 60 



Highway rates, 202 sqq. ; tables 

 of, 275 



Holkham, Mr. Coke's enterprise 

 at, 79 ; the sheep-shearings at 

 82 



Hooker (Richard) tending sheep 

 in a common field, 5 



Hops, introduction of, into Eng- 

 land, 31 



Horses, Suffolk, 42 ; State en- 

 couragement to breeding of, 195 



Houghton recommends turnip cul- 

 tivation, 33 



Hundred Years' War, its effect on 

 agriculture, 19 



