INDEX 



447 



Distress, the, before the repeal of the 

 Corn Laws not caused by the clear- 

 ness of food, and its relief brought 

 about by causes other than free im- 

 ports, 334-46 



Domesday Book, 83-4 



Domesday Book, The New (1876), 85 



Domestic legislation, beneficial, in so- 

 called Dark Ages, 84 n. 



Duke of Devonshire's Committee, the, 

 on the evils of the influx from country 

 to town, 401-2 



Duty of 2s. per quarter on foreign corn, 

 what its effect would be, 341-2 



Early education in farm work, 37 

 Ecoles Pratiques d'Agriculture, system 



of, 32 

 Economic side of inclosures question, 



90-5 

 Electioneering device of the big and 



little loaf, 342 

 Emigrants as a payment for American 



produce, 390 

 Emigration, a cause of depopulation 



of our rural districts, 387-93 



— means sending away the real wealth 

 of the nation, 392 



Employment, how it would be increased 



by extending the cultivation of wheat, 



298 

 England " the only country where a real 



socialist revolution can take place," 



416 



— what is her position as a producing 

 country? xix 



English land laws, the, authorities on, 



43 n- 



— land system, the, 40-102 



— literature, our old, the value of a 

 knowledge of, 425 



— rural life, how it could be changed, 



303 



Exodus of the rural population, 384 



Exports and imports, their relative 

 value, 290-1 



Extracts from a paper by the author, 

 forty years after the repeal of the 

 Corn Laws, showing the sad con- 

 dition of the rural labourer, 372-4 



Explanatory note, xxiv 



Famine, serious danger of, in case of 



war, xiv 

 Farm labourers, efficient, scarcity of, 



383 



Farmers, hardships to, through having 

 farms sold over their heads, 254-5 



— serious condition of, xiii 



Farms, tableshowingnumbcr of workers 



on, 380 

 Fealty, holding of land in, 46 

 Feudalism, the principle of, 45 

 "First line of defence," our, 328 

 Fiscal policy and agriculture, 329-75 



— question, the, and its relationship 

 to cultivating-ownership, 333 



Food, imports of small articles of, 13- 



15 



— unprofitable to produce under present 

 system, 15 



— from foreign sources, historical 

 parallels, 437 



— in time of war, best way to provide, 

 315-16 



— as contraband of war, 311-12 



— supply, our, in time of war, 311-28 

 Foreign produce, enormous importation 



of articles which could be produced 

 at home, 225 

 France, small holdings in, how they 

 have benefited the peasantry, 189-91 



— condition of agriculture before the 

 Revolution, compared with that of 

 the present day, 192-204 



Free imports and cheap food, a fallacy 

 exposed, 343-6 



Free trade, the founders of the doctrine 

 of, and what they meant by it, 329-32 



arguments, the, fallacy of, 304, 



306-7 



in land, 261-9 ; of no advantage 



to tenant farmers or to peasants, 

 262 ; danger of removing all restric- 

 tions on, 267-8 



Freeholders, vast number of, in olden 

 times, 47 



French and English rural schools, the 

 classes of children attending them 

 compared, 35 



— Minister of Agriculture, Report of, 



33 



— peasant, unique position of the, 200 



— peasantry, terrible condition of, be- 

 fore the Revolution, 197-9 



— Revolution, what it did for the 

 French peasantry, 200 



Froissart, his "Chronicles of England" 

 misrepresents the real state of the 

 country, 1 3 1-2 



Froude, the historian, on the appro- 

 priation of Church lands, 98, 101-2 ; 

 on the condition of the people prior 

 to Rett's rebellion, 150-1 



Future outlook for agriculture, the, 307 



George, Henry, his scheme of land re- 

 form, 276-7 



