Chap. IV. Canals. Kinds, direction, powers by act of parliament, execution, preservation. 



V. Mills, manufactories, villages, markets, cottages, c. 

 VI. Mines, quarries, pits, and metalliferous bodies, c. 

 VII. Fisheries. Marine fisheries, river, lake, and stream fisheries. 



VIII. Plantations and woodlands. Soils, trees, formation, culture, management, sale, &c. 

 IX. Orchards. Soil, situation, climate, sorts of trees, culture, gathering, storing, cyder making, &c. 

 X. Culturable lands. Farms, farmeries, market gardens, orchards, nurseries, cottage lands, AC. 



BOOK III. Improvement of landed property. 



Chap. I. Draining. Theory, bogs, hills, vallies, mixed soils, retentive soils, draining implements, &c. 

 II. Embanking. Theory, banks, sluices, course of rivers, jetties, piers, &c. 



III. Irrigation. Theory, terms in use, implements in use, flowing, flooding, catchwork, warping, 



wells, ponds, tanks, and other reservoirs in fields or farm yards, boring for water, .filtering 

 for the farmery or domestic purposes. 



IV. Bringing waste lands into culture. Improving the climate, soil, roads, water, rivers, wastes, 



bogs, mountains, rocks, woods, &c. 

 V. Improving the condition of lands already in a state of cultivation. Buildings, roads, fields, 



fences, water-courses, climate, &c. 

 VI. Execution of improvements. By the landlord, by the tenant; general cautions, &c. 



BOOK IV. Management of landed property. 

 Chap. I. Executive establishment. Duties, qualifications, stewards, substewards, bailiffs, cround- 



officers, &c. 



II. Administrator or manager. Principles of conduct, tenants, letting, selling, rents, reductions, 

 covenants, cottagers, accounts, maps, &c. 



BOOK V. Selection, hiring, and stocking of farms. 

 Chap. I. Considerations as to the farm before hiring. Climate, soil, subsoil, elevation, surface, aspect, 



markets, extent, tenure, rent, taxes, vicinage, &c. 

 II. Considerations as to the farmer before hiring. Personal character, professional knowledge, 



experience, capital, &c. 

 , III. Choice of stock. Live stock for labor, breeding, feeding, implements, servants, &c. 



IV. Management. Accounts, arrangement of labor, servants, markets, domestic and personal 



matters. 



BOOK VI. Culture of farm lands. 



Chap. I. General processes. Rotations, fallows, manures, lime, composts. 

 II. Culture of cereal grasses. Wheat, rye, barley, oats, other species. 

 III. Leguminous agricultural plants. Pea, bean, tare, others, 

 i IV. Roots or leaves. Potatoe, turnip, carrot, parsnip, beet or mangold, cabbage tribe, others. 



V. Herbage plants. Clovers, lucerne, saintfoin, others. 



VI. Cultivated grasses. Hay grasses, temporary, permanent, pasture grasses, Woburn experiments. 



VII. Management of permanent grass lands. Mowing or meadow, pastures for feeding, rearing, 



improvement of grass lands by temporary conversion to tillage, draining, paring, 

 dragging, &c. 

 VIII. Plants grown for various arts and manufactures. Cloathing arts, brewery, distillery, oil 



plants, domestic economy, medicine. 



IX. Marine Plants. Process of kelp making, establishing kelp plantations on marine shores, &c. 

 X. Weeds. Annuals, biennials, perennials. 



BOOK VII. Economy of live stock and the dairy. 

 Chap. I. Horse. Varieties, organology, criteria, breeding, rearing, training, feeding, managing 



working, shoeing, diseases. Ass, mule, hinny. 



II. Neat cattle. Varieties, organology, criteria, &c. Buffalo, dairy cows, dairy management. 

 III. Sheep. Varieties, organology, criteria, &c. 

 . IV. Swine. Goat, rabbit, and various others. 



V. Birds. Gallinaceous, anserine, various birds of luxury, of song, diseases, &c. 

 VI. Fish and amphibious animals. Carp, tortoise, c. 



VII. Cultivated insects and worms. Silkmoth, leech, &c. 



VIII. Vermin or animals noxious in agriculture. Quadrupeds, birds, insects, worms, &c. 



PART IV. STATISTICS OF BRITISH AGRICULTURE. 



BOOK I. Present state of agriculture in the British Isles. 

 Chap. I. Practitioners. Operators, commercial cultivators, professors, artists, patrons. 

 II. Kinds of farms. 



III. Topographical survey. England, county by county. Wales, ditto. Scotland, ditto. Ireland 



ditto. 



IV. Literature of agriculture. British, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Rassian 



Swedish, American. 

 V. Police and laws. 



BOOK II. Future progress of agriculture in Britain. 

 Chap. I. Improvement by increase of profits. 



II. By increased taste for agricultural knowledge. 

 III. By better education of practitioners. 



KALENDARIAL INDEX. GENERAL INDEX. 



Whoever will compare the above rude outline with the contents of any agricultural 

 work extant, will be convinced of the superior comprehensiveness of the Encyclopaedia ; 

 and when the immense number of engravings is considered, illustrative of the history of 

 agriculture, of its implements, machines, buildings, operations, farms, estates, roads, 

 waters, plants, weeds, animals, vermin, &c. , it may be safely affirmed that no preceding 

 work (unless it be the Encyclopaedia of Gardening) ever contained such a body of in- 

 struction within the same limits. 



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