CONTENTS V 



CHAPTER IX PAGE 



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



Enclosure. — Harrison's Description .... 89 



CHAPTER X 



1 540-1 600. Live Stock. — Flax. — Saffron. — The Potato. — 



The Assessment of Wages . . . . . .104 



CHAPTER XI 



1 600-1 700. 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. — TuU and the New 

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



CHAPTER XV 



1 700-65. Townshend. — Sheep-rot. — Cattle Plague. — Fruit- 

 growing . . . . . . . . .182 



CHAPTER XVI 



1765-93. 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 



