290 



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ToUemache leases, 219 



Tomkins's improvement of Here- 

 ford cattle, 53 



Torrens Act, 184 



Townshend (Lord), his system of 

 husbandry, 42 ; receives the 

 nickname of Turnip Townshend, 

 47 ; profitable results of his 

 system, 47 



Township described, 3 



TuU (Jethro) on the field cultiva- 

 tion of turnips and clover, 4G ; 

 quoted, G2 



Tun, the Anglo-Saxon, 3 



Turnips, first successful cultivation 

 of, in England, 32 ; field cultiva- 

 tion of, by Townshend,46 ; ignor- 

 ance and prejudice respecting, 62 



Turnpike roads, 60 



Tusser, his agricultural knowledge, 

 30 ; quoted, 6, 10, 31, 55, 65 



UNITED STATES, agricultural 

 competition of, with England, 

 121 ; Central Department of 

 Agriculture in, 196 note 



VETERINAEY science in France, 



152 

 Village communities, sites of the 



oldest, 1 ; farming system of, 3 ; 



imposition of feudal manors on, 8 

 Villein, status and duties of the, 9 

 Villeins' land, 9 

 Vines, ancient culture of, 13 



WAGES, rates of ,12, 25, 32, 40, 279 

 Walpole (Sir R.), his interest in 



agriculture, 78 

 Webb (Jonas), his Babraham flock 



of South-Downs, 52 

 Webster of Canley, cattle breeding 



by, 52 



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Welcombe, failure of an attempted 

 enclosure at, 28 



Westminster, statute of, authorises 

 enclosm^es, 19 



Weston (Sir Richard) succeeds in 

 cultivating tm-nips and clover, 

 32 



Wheat, unsteady prices of, in the 

 Middle Ages, 12 ; prices of, in 

 the seventeenth century, 32 ; 

 between 1713 and 1764, 39; 

 foreign duties laid on, 41 ; cul- 

 tivation of, established by Mr. 

 Coke in Norfolk, 80 ; high prices 

 of, in the early years of the 

 present century, 88 ; importa- 

 tion of, from America, 121 ; not 

 grown profitably under Protec- 

 tion, 163 ; minimum Protection 

 for, 165 ; tables of prices of, in 

 England, 243 ; in France, Bel- 

 gium, and Prussia, 274 



Wight, Isle of, pasture-farming 

 forbidden in, 246 



Wild-field-grass system of hus- 

 bandry, 2 



Wool, culture of, 21 ; its disastrous 

 efiiects on the lower peasantry , 

 23 ; exportation of, forbidden, 

 41; value of English, 48 



Worlidge recommends turnip cul- 

 tivation, 33 



Wiirttemberg, agricultural educa- 

 tion in, 192 



YARDLANDS explained, 57 

 Young (Arthur), outline of his 

 career, 62 ; denounces the open- 

 field system, 65 ; his argument 

 against small farmers, 74 ; his 

 agricultural estimates for 1771, 

 269 ; his calculations of wages 

 and prices for 1771, 281 ; quoted, 

 32, 55, 58, 59, 60, 70, 72, 73, 79, 

 95 114 139 169, 215, 228, 232 



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