INDEX 



287 



IMPORTS, agricultural,sincel866, 



table of, 263 

 Improvements, compensation for, 



216 

 Ings divided into doles, 6 

 Ireland, ignorant agricultural 



practices in, 62 



JOHNSTONE (JOHN), his work 

 on drainage, 96 



KENNET'S instance of a cession 



of common rights, 27 

 King (Gregory), his classification 



of the population in 1688, 158 



LABOURERS, agricultural, wages 

 of, in the seventeenth century, 

 32 ; in the reign of Henry VI., 

 25 ; table of weekly wages of, 

 279 ; early attracted to manu- 

 facture, 66 ; decline in number 

 of, 111 ; effect of the depression 

 on, 124, 159 ; past and present 

 condition of, 22-1 ; how to secure 

 small holdings for, 227 ; lodg- 

 ings of, 230 ; allotments for, 

 231, 277 ; emigration for, 234 

 Lammas Day, land customs of, 5 

 Land, property in, see Property ; 

 agitation, the, 126 ; nationalisa- 

 tion of, 141 ; distribution of, in 

 England and Wales, 155; de- 

 creased letting value of, 159 ; 

 transfer of, by registration, 184 ; 

 tables of crops and livestock on, 

 since 1866, 264-7 



— laws, reform of the, 181 



— tax, 202 



Landlords, effect of the agricul- 

 tural depression on, 123, 159; a 

 natural growth, 141 ; number of, 

 in England and Wales, 146, 155 ; 

 the real gainers by their losses, 

 160; need of agricultural educa- 

 tion for, 193 



Landowners, small number of, in 

 England, 158 



Landshires, 5 



MAS 



Lavergne (M. de), his estimate of 

 land division in France, 158 note 



Lawes (Sir John) obtains an 

 artificial manure from bone- 

 dust, 100 ; his services to agri- 

 culture, 114 



Leases, farmers', 58 ; Mr. Coke's, 

 at Holkham, 82 ; want of security 

 for improvements under, 216; 

 under Lord ToUemache, 219 



Leicester (Earl of). See Coke 



Leicester sheep, 51 



Liebig, agricultural chemistry of, 

 99 



Lincoln Heath, value of enclosures 

 shown on, 70 



Lincolnshire, waste condition of, 

 in former times, 44 ; change 

 effected by the adoption of 

 Townshend's system in, 45 ; 

 value of improved farming 

 shown in, 103 



Local Government, abuses of, 208 



Local taxation, 201 sqq. ; tables 

 of, 275 



Lynches on the Wiltshire and 

 Sussex downs, 2 



MACHINES, agricultural, 109 



Manors, lords of, origin of their 

 rights, 8 ; division of the land 

 of, after the Conquest, 9 ; as 

 illustrated by the Domesday 

 Book, 15 ; first enclosures by, 

 18 ; results of their withdrawal 

 from theagrarianpartnership,20 



Manure, bones first used for, 80 ; 

 neglect of, in early agriculture, 

 98 ; researches of modern che- 

 mists on, 99 



Markham (Gervase) quoted, 29, 

 25 ; his ' Farewell to Husbandry ' 

 quoted, 99 



Marling revived by Lord Towns- 

 hend, 45 



Marshall, his theory of lynches, 

 1 ; discovers evidences of the 

 wild-field-grass system, 2 ; his 

 description of the ^\'arwickshire 

 ram, 50 ; quoted, 55, 60, 96 



Mascall's theory of sheep rot, 29 



