CONTENTS v 



CHAPTER IX PAGE 



1540-1600. Progress at last. Hop-growing. Progress of 



Enclosure. Harrison's Description .... 89 



CHAPTER X 



1540-1600. Live Stock. Flax. Saffron. The Potato. 



The Assessment of Wages ...... 104 



CHAPTER XI 



1600-1700. Clover and Turnips. Great Rise in Prices. 



More Enclosure. A Farming Calendar . . . 1 1 1 



CHAPTER XII 



The Great Agricultural Writers of the Seventeenth Century. 



Fruit-growing. A Seventeenth-century Orchard . . 127 



CHAPTER XIII 



The Evils of Common Fields. Hops. Implements. 



Manures. Gregory King. Corn Laws . . . .148 



CHAPTER XIV 



1 700-65. General Characteristics of the Eighteenth Century. 

 Crops. Cattle. Dairying. Poultry. Tull and the New 

 Husbandry. Bad Times. Fruit-growing . . . 162 



CHAPTER XV 



1700-65. Townshend. Sheep-rot. Cattle Plague. Fruit- 

 growing 182 



CHAPTER XVI 



1 7 6 5-93- Arthur Young. Crops and their Cost. The 

 Labourers' Wages and Diet. The Prosperity of 

 Farmers. The Country Squire. Elkington. Bakewell. 

 The Roads. Coke of Holkham . . . , .190 



