INDEX. 



INDEX TO THE PREFACE, 



Anti-com-law League, opposition of, vi. 



Benefits derived, iv. 



Boiling versus steaming or baking, viii. 



Boxes, adoption of, vi. 



Compound versits patent cakes, viii. 



Cotton versus flax, vii. ix. 



Fields, half cultivated, ix. 



Flax versus cotton, vii. ix. 



versus Gold of Pleasure, vii. 



how much to be sown, xi. 



culture, moral effects of, xii. 



cause, claims of, xii. 



Free-Trade versus Protection, viii. 

 High prices incompatible, ix. 

 Idle, reformation of, xii. 

 Instruction, where afforded, xii. 

 Ipswich Flax Company, xi. 

 Oppositions, unavoidable relation of, iv. 

 Origin of the present flax-movement, vi. 

 Parliament, avowed inability of, i. 

 Pauperism, deliverance from, i. 

 People, requirements of, ix. 

 Practical instruction, necessity of, v. 

 Problem, how solved, x. 

 Providence, overruling power of, xii. 

 Society, bane of, x. 

 Soil and poor, to whom committed, ix. 

 Soils, which favourable to flax, xi. 

 Value of the flax plant, v. 



Acres, number of, to supply the home 

 market with flax, 52 



Advantages, direct and indirect, of lin- 

 seed, 131 ; of a quick return, 135 



Advocates for the compound, who be- 

 came, 59 



Agriculture, drawback on, 1 



Agricultural nostrums and fallows, 280 



Alms-giving, evil effects of, 174 



Apparatus required, 233 



Archimedes, screw of, 274 



Arguments against a high price of wheat, 

 179 



Argyll, agriculture of, 79 



Armagh, flax-market, 172 



Arrangements, preliminary, 164 



Association, National Flax, where pro- 

 posed, 164 



Babel, completion of, 288 



Babylon, rebuilding of, 288 



Baker, Mr., of Aele, 146 



Balance in favour of a quick return, 135 



Baltic provisions not superior, 62 



Barker, James, Esq., important letter of, 

 235 



Barren lands, and poor-rates, 173 



Bean stalks, 251 



Belgians, successful employment of, 57 



Belgian workmen, arrival of, 141 ; pro- 

 fits, 103 



Belgian system indispensable, 271 



Benefits acknowledged, 274 



Bickes, Mr., fatal discovery of, 279 



Bishop of Norwich, 40 



Blacker, not Baker, Essay of, 146 



Blair Warren, Rev. J. C, boxes of, 132 



Boxes, cost of, 150; speedy repayment 

 for, 150; description of, 150; advan- 

 tages of, 129-154 ; erection of, for 

 tenants, 178; cost of, to the tenant, 

 243; partition-rails, plate of, 152; 

 plans of, between 135 and 140 



Box-feeding system, experience of Sir 

 C. Burrell, 132 



Breaking, 99 



British husbandry, advantages of, to Ire- 

 land, 12 



Buccleuch, Duke, remarks of, 133 



Bullocks, experiment, 121 ; loss by graz- 

 ing, 128 



Bum, Mr., patriotic remarks of, 254 



Burrell, Sir Charles, l*» '. ., 



Burroughes, William, Esq., 22 



Buxton, Sir T. F., Bart., 22 



Cake, double- pressed, absurdity of, 120 ; 



composed of foreign rubbish, 125 

 Calves, rearing in summer, 181 ; weight 



of, 134 

 Cambric, management of the soil for, 82 

 Cattle, number of, fattened with com- 

 pound, 208 ; rearing of, 1 80 ; profit- 

 able for, 249 ; fattened with linseed- 

 oil, 120; returned fat every six months, 

 122 

 Cattle-boxes, drawing of, 150 and 151 

 Cattle-compound, opposition to, 59 

 Cheap bread and cheap meat explained, 

 224 



