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STATISTICS OF AGRICULTURE. 



Paet IV. 



Butter. 



Button-moulds, of horn and bone. 



Candle making, of tallow. 



Carpet-weaving. 



Cheese. 



Curriers or leather-dressers. 



Fellmongers. 



Fulling mills. 



Glue-makers. 



Leather mills, for oiled and chamois leather. 



Meat, beef, lamb, mutton, pork, veal. 



Shoe factory. 



Skinners, or leather-dressers, chamois, &c. 



Soap-makers. 



Stockings, of worsted. 



Tanyard.s. 



Woollen-cloth factories, yam spinning, weaving, and cloth 



dressing. 

 Worsted spinning, for the hosiers, by hand and jennies. 



2. Tradei, S^c. depeiuling on Animal Siibstancei, imported. 

 Hat-making and unsplit straw hats. 

 Silk-spinning mills. 



Silk-stocking weaving. 



3. Trades, iS-c. depending on Vegetable Productions qfthe county. 

 Basket and wicket making. 



Besom or broom do. 

 Boat or barge building, for the canals 

 Breweries. 

 Chamomile flowers. 

 Charcoal burning and grinding. 

 Charcoal mills, for grinding it. 

 Com, barley, beans, oats, peas, wheat. 

 Hoops for casks, of wood. 

 Malt-makers. 



Mattresses, chair-bottoms, &c. of straw. 

 Millers, flour or meal makers. 

 Sieves, or riddles for com. 

 Shelling, or oat-meal mills. 

 Timber. 



Turning mills, for wood, bobbins, bowls, cheese- vats, dishes, 

 tool-handles. 



4. Tradei, Sfc. depending on Vegetable Substances, imported. 

 Bleaching-houses, and grounds. 



Calico-priming. 



Calico-weaving. 



Cambric-weaving. 



Candle-wick, bump or bomp spinning-mills 



Cotton-spinning mills. 



Dye-houses. 



Flax-spinning mills, linen-yam mills. 



Fustian-weaving, thicksets. 



Hoj)-bag spinning and weaving, wool-bags, &c. 



Lace-weaving, or warp frame-lace making. 



Lace-working, or neettle-wovking of firame-lace. 



Linen- weaving, sheeting, checks, &c. 



Muslin-weaving. 



Nightcaps, of cotton frame knitting. 



Packthread spinning, string, twine. 



Paper-making. 



Bope-making, cords, halters. 



Sacking weaving, corn-bags. 



Sail-cloth weaving. 



Stocking-weaving; principally of cotton, some of worsted 



frame-knit. 

 Tape-weaving mills. 

 Thread-spinning. 

 Whijicord-spinning. 



5. Trailes, S;c. depending on Mineral Products of the county. 

 Bakestone making. 



Boiler-making, of wrought iron, for steam-engines. 

 Brick-making, building, draining, fire, paving. 

 Building-stone, or free-stone, ashler, caping, eaves-slates, 



gable-stones, paving, ridging, grey slates, or tilestones and 



stack posts. 

 Cannon-balls, or shot and shells. . 

 Cannon-casting and boring. 

 Chain-making, iron and cast-iron. 

 China-stone, or white potter's chest-pits. 

 Cisterns and troughs of stone, to hold watf-r. 

 Clay-pits, brick, china, fire, pipe, pottery, and tile. 

 Coal-pits. 

 Coke-burning. 



Copperas-stone, brasses or pyrites pits. 

 ^ ms of iron. 



Fryingpan 

 Grind-mil 



Gypsum, alabaster, plaster. 



Han 



Hoo. , 



Iron forges and ftimaces. 



Ironstone pits, argillaceous ore. 



Lead-mines, or veins of lead ore. 



Lead-smelting cupolas, and slag-mills. 



Lime-kilns. 



Limestone quarries. 



Malt-kiln plates, of perforated cast-iron 



Marble quarries. 



Marble sawing and polishing mUls. 



Marl pits, for manuring. 



Mill-stone quarries. 



Nail-making, of cast-iron. 



clasp (or carpenter's), and spikes, &c. 



horse-shoe. 



shoe-makers. 



Ore dressing washing, huddling. 

 Patten rings, or clog irons. 

 Pipe-making, tobacco pipes. 



Pipes, of earthenware, hollow bricks, for conveying water. 



of lead, drawn. 



of zinc. 



Plaster of Paris works, gypsum. 



Potteries, earthenware, stoneware. 



Pot -stones, pye or lump stones for the iron forges. 



Puncheons, stauncheons or props, for the coal pits. 



Ked-lead works, minium. 



Rivets, of iron, softened, for coopers, boiler-making. 



Rolling and slitting mills, for iron bars, plate Iron, nail rods. 



Rotten -stone, or polishing earth. 



Sand-pits, casting or founders', house-floor, mason's mortar, 

 scouring, and scythe-stick sand. 



Saw mills, for stone and wood, also with circular saws. 



Screws, carpenters', for wood. 



Scythe-sticks and stones for sharpening scythes, hay-knives. 



Sheet-lead, milled lead, rolled lead. Common sheet-lead is 

 cast by most of the plumbers and glaziers of tlie county. 



Shot, leaden. 



Slitting mills. 



Spar-workers, petrifaction workers, gypsum, calcspar, fluor. 



Sulphur-works, annexed to the principal smelting houses. 



Tenter hooks, of cast-iron, softened. 



Tile-kilns, draining, gutter, hip, pan, plane and ridge. 



Tire for carriage wheels. 



Whetstones, rubbers, hones. 



White-lead works. 



Wire-drawing, steel. 



Wire-working, safes, sieves, screens. 



Zinc mines, blend and calamine. 

 work, malleable plates, wire pipes, &c. 

 6. Trades, i\c. depending principally on Mineral Substances, itrt. 

 ported.' 



Axes, hatchets, bills, adzes. 



Brass foundry. 



Bridle-bits and buckles. 



China factories. 



Chisels, gouges, plane-irons, and other edge tools. 



Clock and watch making. 



Colour-grinding mills, paint. 



Cotton machinery makers, for the cotton-spinning mills. 



Cutlery, knives, forks. Sic. 



File-making, rasps. 



Flint- grinding mills, for pottery glazing. 



Fr<ime-smiths, stocking-loom makers. 



Glass-making. 



Gunpowder-making. 



Hoes (garden, turnip), paring shovels, trowels, &c. 



Implement makers, agricultural tools. 



Malt miUs, steel mills. 



Mangles, for linen clothes. 



Mechanists, machine, tool and engine makers. 



Millwrights. 



Needle-making. 



Reaping-hooks, smooth-edged. 



Scissars, of cast-iron, cemented to steel. 



Scythe-smiths. 



Sickles, toothed reaping tools. 



Snuffers. 



Soda water makers. 



Spades, shovels. 



Spurs, of steel. 



Stirrup-irons of cast-iron, cemented. 



Tin-plate workers, tin-men. 



Washing machines for clothes. 



AVorsted machinery maker, for the worsted spinning-mills. 



Notwithstanding that many of the manufactures and pro- 

 ductions above mentioned are sepeirately of small importance 

 and may contribute little or nothing towards an export trade 

 from the county, yet, taken in the aggregate, they must be 

 admitted to present a most flattering picture of the varied and 

 great manufacturing; industry of the county ; showing it to 

 contribute far beyond most oiher counti -s towards the supply 

 of all its own wants, and contributing at the same time, in no 

 small degree, towards the supply and general trade of the king- 

 dom at large. 



Education, 



Among the labouring classes, the reporter observes, is better 

 attended to than in most of the adjoining counties. He ap- 

 proves of the great attention paid to bringing up children in 

 habits of frugality and industry; and contemplates, as "the 

 great and desirable end, their complete emancipation from 

 the moral slavery of poor-law dependence, and its attended 

 vices and misery." "There are some persons, no doubt, who 

 may not approve of all that Mr. Farcy has advanced on this 

 subject ; for where is the writer that can please every reader ? 

 but there are none, we hope, who would not be gratified with 

 his sincere and ardent desire for the more general and uni- 

 versal happiness of the British poor. Though we are of opinion 

 that very little amelioration of that division of society which 

 constitutes the agricultural or labouring class can be effi;cted 

 without an alteration in the laws; yet we are equally con- 

 vinced, that no great alteration of what are calltd the poor 

 laws would be advisable, till the poor are prepared for it, by 

 having imbibed such a degree of knowledge as would enable 

 them to meet the consequences with advantage, or at least 

 without an increase of misery. 



We agree with the reporter, that the case is somewhat 

 different with the operative manufacturers, and mechanics 

 congregated together in towns ; for the wages of their labour 

 depends, in most cases, as the wages of all labour ought to do, 

 on the demand and the supply ; whereas the weekly wages of 

 the agricultural labourer depends but too often on the decision 

 of the parochial vestry. The consequences of this state of 

 things are ruinous to the rustic labourer, and call loudly for 

 legislative interference and general sympathy. The extraor- 

 dinary exertions at present making by the diflFerent classes of 

 mechanics, to enlighten and ameliorate themselves, cannot 

 fail in a short time to awaken the dormant powers of the 

 country labourer. 



15. Means of Improvement. 



There are reading societies in most of the principal towns : 

 to be regretted that the funds of the board of agriculture do 

 not permit it to circulate cheap agricultural books; agricul. 

 tural books have as large a sale in Derbyshire as in most other 

 counties ; some take the " Farmer's Magazine," and a great 

 number the " Farmer's Journal;" which, if the stamp duty 

 were taken off, would greatly increase in circulation, and be 

 an incalculable source of improvement. An agricultural so- 

 ciety at Derbv, since 1794; a society for fat wether sheep at 

 Repton : at Hayfield, a society of moimtain sheep keeiiers, 

 since 1790. A list given liy Farev of ninetv-three agricultural 

 societies in England and Wales. The late Karl of Chesterfield's 



Premiums annually to his tenants, as recorded in the Farmer's 

 oumal, S;7th December 1813, and 16th January 181G. 



