INDEX 



289 



PUS 

 Pusey (Mr.), his Committee on 



Agricultural Customs, 103, 107 ; 



recognises need for tenant 



right, 112 

 Pykes, 5 



QUAETLEY (Mr.), Devon cattle- 

 breeder, 53 



RAFFEISEN'S land-bank system, 

 227 



Puailway rates, revision of, in the 

 interests of farmers, 197 



Rainfall, increased, in the latter 

 half of the eighteenth century, 40 



Raps, 5 



Rates, 201 i<qq. ; tables of, 275 



Reed's drainage pipes, 98 



Rigs, 5 



Roads, bad, an obstacle to agri- 

 cultural progress, 60 



Rogers (Prof. Thorold), his ' Hist. 

 of Agriculture and Prices ' 

 quoted, 11 



Roots, culture of, 108 



Roses, wars of the, their effect on 

 agriculture, 21 



Rothwell, common- field cultiva- 

 tion at, in 1797, 57 



Rous (John) denounces sheep- 

 farming, 24 



Rupee, Indian, reduced value of, 

 120 



Russia, agricultural education in, 

 192 note 



Rye, cultivation of, in former 

 times, 13 



Ryeland sheep, 48 



SALISBURY Plain, traces of ex- 

 tinct villages in, 1 



Scott (Sir W.), his anachronism 

 about Devon cattle, 53 ; ' Waver- 

 ley ' quoted, 51 



Scragg's machine for making 

 drainage pipes, 98 



Seebohm, his theory of IjTiches, 2 ; 

 his inquiries into manorial 

 rights, 8 



Serfs, 10 



Shakespeare resists an invasion of 

 his rights of common, 28 



Sheep, diseases of, early theories 

 as to, 29 ; rot in 1735, 39 ; cot- 

 ting of, 48 ; diseases in, extra- 

 ordinary nostrum for, 59 



Sheep-farming for wool, see Wool ; 

 for meat, Bakewell's experiments 

 in, 49 



Shot, an ancient division of land, 4 



Silver, depreciation of, 120 ; tables 

 showing production of, 261 



Skj^e, crofters of, in 1750, 7 



Smith of Deanston, his system of 

 thorough drainage, 97 



Smithfield, sizes of cattle and 

 sheep sold at, in 1710andl795, 53 



Sologne district, reclamation of, 

 153 



Southdown sheep improved on 

 Bakewell's principles, 52 



Sprengel, agricultural chemistry 

 of, 99 



Stewkley, common-field cultivation 

 at, in the end of the last cen- 

 tury, 57 



Stillingfieet, his knowledge of 

 grasses, 81 



Stogoursey, late sur\'ival of the 

 dual system of common-field 

 husbandry at, 4, 7 



Stratford-on-Avon, an enclosure 

 prohibited at, 28 



Suffolk, fanning in, prior to Lord 

 Townshend's agricultural re- 

 form, 42 



TAXATION, local, 201 ; tables of, 



275 

 Taylor (Samuel), on the use of 



corn drills, 101 

 Tenant-right, connection of, with 



improved farming, 112 

 Tenants' improvements question, 



216 

 Tillage, reaction from pasture to, 



64 ; abandoned for sheep-farm- 

 ing, 22 

 Tithe question, the, 166; to be 



solved by redemption, 173 

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