CONTENTS. 



CHAP. II. 



Page | 



Agricultural Operations requiring the Aid of 



Labouring Cattle - - - 524 



I. Operations for the Care of Live Stock - 524 



II. Labours with Cattle on the Soil - - 525 



III. Labours and Operations with the Crop, 



performed with the Aid of Cattle - 530 



CHAP. III. 



Scientific Operations, and Operations of Order 



and general Management - - 533 I 



I. Scientific Operations required of the Agri- 

 culturist - - - 533 



1. Measuring relatively to Agriculture - 534 



2. Taking the Levels of Surfaces - . 535 



3. Division and laying out of Lands - 536 



4. Estimating Weight, Power, and Ouanti- 



ties - . . .538 



5. Estimating the Value of Agricultural La- 



bour and Materials, Rents and Tillages - 539 



6. Professional Routine of Land Surveyors, 



Appraisers and Valuators, in making up 

 their Plans and Reports 

 II. Operations of Order and Management 



PART III. 



AGRICULTURE AS PRACTISED IN BRITAIN. 



BOOK I. 



OF THE VALUATION, PURCHASE, AND TRANSFER OF 

 LANDED PROPERTY. 



CHAP. I. 



The different Kinds and Tenures of Landed 



Property in the British Isles - - 551 



I. The Kinds of Landed Property, and its dif- 



ferent Tenures, in England - - 551 



II. The Kinds and Tenures of Landed Pro- 



perty in Scotland . - - 552 



III. The Kinds and Tenures of Landed Pro- 



perty in Ireland - - 552 



CHAP. II. 



Valuation of Landed Property . - 553 



CHAP. III. 

 Purchase or Transfer of Landed Property - 557 



BOOK II. 



OK THE LAYING OUT, OR GENERAL ARRANGEMENT, 

 OF LANDED ESTATES. 



CHAP. I. 

 Consolidated detached Property - - 559 



CHAP. II. 



Appropriating Commonable Lands - - 560 



I. Origin and different Kinds of Commonable 



Lands - - - - 560 



II. General Principles of Appropriating and 



dividing Commonable Lands - - 562 



CHAP. III. 



Choice of the Demesne or Site for the Proprie- 

 tor's Residence . . -565 



CHAP. IV. 



Formation and Management of Roads - - 567 



I. Different Kinds of Roads - - 568 



II. Line of Direction, or laying out of Roads . 570 



III. Form and Materials of Jloads - -574 



1. Formation of Roads, and of their Wear 



or Injury - - - 574 



2. M' Adam's Theory and Practice of Road- 



making - - 576 



3. Road-making, as treated of and practised 



by various eminent Engineers and Sur- 

 veyors .... 579 



I V. Paved Roads . - .597 



V. Milestones, Guide-posts, and Toll-gates - 602 



VI. Preservation and Repair of Roads - 605 



VII. Railroads - - 613 



CHAP. V. 



Formation of Canals - . .616 



I. Utility and Rise of Navigable Canals - 616 



II. Of discovering the most eligible Route for 



a Line of Canal - . 617 



III. Powers granted to Canal Companies by 



Government - . . 619 



IV. Execution of the Works - -619 



CHAP. VI. 



Improvement of Estates by the Establishment of 

 Mills, Manufactories, Villages, Markets, &c. 622 



CHAP. VIL 

 Of Mines, Quarries, Pits, and Metalliferous 



Bodies ... 624 



CHAP. VIII. 



Establishment of Fisheries - - 629 



I. Marine Fisheries - - 629 



II. River, Lake, and other Inland Fisheries - 630 



CHAP. IX. 



Plantations and Woodlands - - 635 



I. Soils and Situations which may be most pro- 



fitably employed in Timber Plantations - 633 



II. Trees suitable for different Soils, Situations, 



and Climates - . 634 



III. Forming Plantations - . 636 



IV. Mixture of Trees in Plantations - 644 



V. Culture of Plantations - - 645 



1. General Influence of Culture on Trees - 615 



2. Culture of the Soil among Trees - 647 



3. Filling up of Blanks or Failures in Plant- 



ations - - - - 643 



4. Pruning and Heading down Trees in 



Plantations - - 648 



5. Thinning young Plantations - - 652 



VI. Improvement of Neglected Plantations 654 



VII. Treatment of Injured and Diseased Trees 655 



VIII. Products of Trees, and their Preparation 



for Use or Sale - - - 657 



IX. Estimating the Value of Plantations and 



their Products, and exposing them to 

 Sale - 662 



CHAP. X. 



Formation and Management of Orchards 661 



I. Soils and Situations most suitable for Or 



rhanls - - 664 



II. Sorts of Trees and Manner of Planting 665 



I 1 1. Cultivation of Farm Orchards 669 



IV. Gathering and Keeping of Orchard Fruit 67 1 



V. Manufacture of Cider and Perry 671 



VI. Machinery and Utensils necessary for 



Cider-making - . 675 



CHAP. XL 



Laying out of Farm and other Culturable 

 Lands - - 676 



I. Extent or Size of Farm and Cottage Lands 677 



II. Laying out Farms and Farmeries -677 



1. Situation and Arrangement of the Farmery 677 



2. Laying out Cottages - - 6<S5 



3. Laying out the Farm Lands - - G*>7 



BOOK III. 



OF IMPROVING THE CULTURABLE LANDS OF AN 

 ESTATE. 



CHAP. I. 



Draining Watery Lands . - 690 



I. Natural Causes of Wetness in Lands, and 



the general Theory of Draining 



II. The Methods of Draining Boggy Land 



III. Draining Hilly Lands 



IV. Methods of draining Mixed Soils 



V. Methods of draining of Retentive Soils 



VI. Methods of draining Mines, Quarries. Pits 



Ponds, and Lakes 



raw 



705 



