450 



LAND REFORM 



Pollock, Sir Frederick, on the Land 



Laws, 82 n. 

 Poor Law Act of 1 601 : 60 



institution, our, xxi, xxii 



Poor-rate, origin of the impost, 60 

 Population, decrease of, in rural dis- 

 tricts, 377 

 Porter, Mr., on advantages of large 



farms, 70 

 Poverty the main cause of all our evils, 



421 

 " Prayer for Landlords," from Prayer 



Book of 1552: 56-7 n. 

 Present system of tenancy a premium 

 on bad farming, two letters there- 

 on, 7 

 Private storage of wheat, 324 

 Proletariat, the, in England, 419 

 "Prosperity," what is meant by the 



term, xix 

 Protection, England's trading supre- 

 macy established under, 353 



— in France, its influence on the pro- 

 gress of agriculture, 202 



Prussia, its policy in relation to peasant 



proprietary, 16 

 Public granaries, 322-3 



— lands, sale of, 253-4 



Purchase of freehold by tenant : advance 

 of money for, by Board of Agricul- 

 ture ; rate of interest and terms of 

 repayment, 3, 4 



Purchase of Land (England and Wales) 

 Bill, 1905 : Part I, Occupying Owner- 

 ship, 3 ; Part II, Peasant Proprie- 

 tary, II 



Purchase of land for small holdings, by 

 Board of Agriculture, 1 1 



Purchase, the basis of the proposals 

 made in this book, 41 



Rates of wages, enormous decrease in 



recent years, 364 

 Rates, unfair treatment of the farmer 



in the imposition of, 241 

 Reclamation of land, 427-30 

 Rents, excessive, charged for small 



holdings, 229-30 

 Repairs, farm, cost of, 239-40 

 Repeal of the Corn Laws not the cause 



of the era of prosperity that followed ; 



the real causes stated, 348-52 

 Repeopling of our country districts, the, 



392 

 Richardson, Mr. George Gibson, on 



present condition of agriculture in 



France, 192-204 

 Risks to the State of the Land Pur- 

 chase Bill, 234 60 



Ritchie, Mr., and the abolition of the 



shilling duty on imported wheat, 341 

 Roberts, Lord, his scheme for training 



the youth of the country, 397-8 

 Rogers, Prof. Thorold, on the increased 



cost of living under Free Trade, 345 

 Royal Commission on Supply of Food 



in Time of War, evidence taken by, 



314-16 ; its report, 317 

 Rural districts where population has 



decreased, 377-8 



— Education, 23 ; reports of Inspectors 

 on, 27-8 ; reports of teachers on, 29 



— labourer, the, classed as an "un- 

 skilled" worker — a common error, 

 382 n. 



— labourers, lamentable condition of, 

 after the repeal of the Corn Laws, 

 367-71 



present condition of, 374 



— schools in England and France, a 

 comparison between the classes of 

 children attending them, 35 



Russell, Lord John, his proposal of a 

 fixed duty on corn, 2S0 



Sales of land, prices realized at auction, 



249-51 



Selborne, Lord, on the Navy as a pro- 

 tection for our food-supply, 311-12 



Select Committee of Waste Lands, Re- 

 port of, 1795 : 91 



Self-feeding nation, how England could 

 become a, 294-5 



Sheep farming, 10 1, 138 



Sinclair, Sir John, President of Board 

 of Agriculture, his arguments in 

 favour of inclosures, 67 



Sismondi, M. de, on common rights, 

 89 



Small farms, tendency to revert to the 

 policy of, 275 



Small holders and peasant proprietors, 

 how they disappeared, 64 



Small holdings, excessive rents charged 

 for, 229-30 



a means of keeping rural families 



together, 223 



Small Holdings Association, the, what 

 it has done, 221-2 



Small Holdings Act, the, not altogether 

 a failure ; illustrations of its applica- 

 tion, 212-22 



Smith, Adam, on comparative positions 

 of farmer and proprietor, 2 



on cornfields v. pasture, 6 



on small proprietors, 233 



on capital employed in agri- 

 culture, 290 n. 



