CONTENTS. 



CHAP. V. 



On the means of improving the agricultural state of a country, Page 500 

 SECT. I. On removing obstacles to improvement, . 507 



II. On relieving agriculture from burdens peculiarly affect- 

 ing it, . ... 508 

 HI. On promoting the collection and diffusion of useful 



knowledge, ... ib. 



V. On giving a preference to domestic agricultural pro- 

 ductions in the home market, . . . 515 

 VI. On encouraging the exportation of any surplus produce, 514 

 VII. On promoting the improvement of waste or unproduc- 

 tive lands, . . . . 515 

 VIII. On encouraging permanent and substantial improve- 

 ments, ..... 516 



NOTES 



ON THE PRECEDING CHAPTERS AND SECTIONS. 



APPENDIX. 



No. I. On the size of farms, . . Page 1 



II. Hints on vegetation, the agents necessary for the pro- 

 duction of plants, and those which are injurious or de- 

 structive to them, ..... 7 

 III. Of leases, . . . 14 

 IV. Of farming accounts, .... 24 



V Proofs of the unfavourable idea entertained by British 



Statesmen, of the ability of this country to raise a suffi- 

 ciency of grain for its own consumption, and of the little 

 importance attached by them to agriculture, previous to 

 the establishment of a national institution for promoting 

 its improvement, . .28 



VI. Evidence of the great advantages derived from the esta- 

 blishment of a board of agriculture, from an account of 

 the bills of enclosure passed in the course of forty years, 

 in two periods, of twenty years each, namely, from 1774 

 to 1793, prior, and from 1794 to 1815 inclusive, posterior, 

 to the establishment of the board of agriculture, . 29 



VII. Description of the mode of making natural grass into 



hay, as practised in the neighbourhood of London, 31 



VIII. On the improved system of summer fallow, as practised 



in the Lothians, and on the advantages of the grubber, 56 

 IX. Account of an improved mode of raising crops of grain, 



by means of adrill-barrow, . . 39 



X. On the management of an extensive property, . 41 

 XI. On the making of watering ponds, as practised by Ro- 

 bert Gardener, of Kilham, in the East Riding of York- 

 shire, . .... 42 

 XII. On warping in Italy, .... 44 

 XIII. On the means of improving the condition of the indus- 

 trious labourers in husbandry, and effectually relieving 

 their distresses, ..... 



