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Cattle-foods, artificial: 62, 64, 168-70. 



Celery: 106, 109. 



Chamber of Agriculture, the Central; cited : 



138. 



Chamberlain, Joseph: 94, 132, 146, 205. 

 Channing, Sir F.; cited: 81, 96, 107, 109, 



no, 122, 123, 125, 131, 164 n. 4. 

 Chaplin, Henry: 95. 

 Charleton, W. L.: 194. 

 Chatteris: 107. 

 Cheney, E. J.: 149. 

 Cheshire: 8, 90, in, 112, 174, 192. 

 Child- Labour: 34, 172. 

 Civil Service, the: 150. 

 Classification of holdings: 3 f., 70, 88-93. 

 Climate, effects of: 65, 67-9, 103, 205, 



208-10. 



Cobden, Richard: 47ns. i & 5, 54 n. 3, 146. 

 Ceilings, Jesse: 94, 95, 125, 132, 135, 136, 



139, 146, 183. 



Comber, T.; cited: 7 n. i, 21, 22. 

 Commission of 1880-2 : 101 f., 108-13, 185 



n. 2. 

 Commission of 1894-7: 101 f., 107, 108-13, 



157. 175, 179. 185 n. 2, 195 n., 205. 

 Commissioners (Small Holdings): 127 f., 



148, 149, 152. 



Common-field System: 18 f., 27, 28 n. 

 Commons: 4, 18, 25, 26, 27, 28 n., 50, 202. 

 Compensation : see Capital, security of 



tenants'. 

 Competition: 



between the various units of holding ; 



203-5, 210 f. 

 for allotments; in. 

 for farms; 60 f., 102 f., 141. 

 See also Foreign Competition. 

 Compulsory hiring: 136-48, 150. 

 Compulsory purchase: 129-31, 136 f., 140, 



142, 143, 144-50. 

 Conservatism: 52, 82, 208 f. 

 Conservative Party, the: 95, 121, 130, 131, 



140, 142, 146, 150. 

 Consolidation of Farms: 3, 16 f., 22 f., 26, 



39 f., 102. 



See also Extension of Large Farm System. 

 Consumers, profit by fall of prices : 58, 78 f., 



202 f., 210, 212, 213. 

 Consumption : 



alleged inelasticity; 205-8. 



production for home ; 4 f., 107 f. 



See also under Markets, Standard of 



Comfort. 



Continental System, the: u, 44, 45 f., 60. 

 Convertible husbandry: 83, 208. 

 Co-operation : 62, 142 f., 150-2, 187-99, 



208 f., 211, 216, 217, 220. 

 Co-operative spirit, the: 198. 

 Corn-Bounty: 10. 

 Corn growing: 6, 10, 17, 21, 28 n., 60, 



75-9, 124, 156-61, 168, 189 f. 

 Advantages of large scale production in ; 

 3, 19 f., 27 f., 41, 61 f., 65, 70 f., 

 155-61, 181, 201, 204. 

 Decline of; 75-9. 



Corn-growing, contd. 



Extension of; 13-19, 48 f., 56, 19 f., 



68, 200-202. 

 on Small Holdings; 4-6, 17, 19, 53,64, 



69 n., 107-10, in, T 12. 

 Corn- Law Policy: see Protection. 

 Corn Laws, Abolition of: see Free Trade. 

 Corn-prices: 8-21, 30 f., 39, 44, 46-8, 51, 



55 f- 75-8, 200-202. 

 Cornwall: 22 n. 4, 112 n. 9. 

 Cotswolds: 209. 

 Cottages: 23, 26 n. 6, 36. 

 Cottiers : see Labourers, Labourers' 



Holdings. 



County Councils: 126-53, 21 ^ 

 Cows: 14 n. 3, 24 f., 42 f., 4 8, 173. 



See also Dairying, ' Three Acres and a 



Cow.' 



Craigie, Major: 125. 

 Cream: 79, 82. 

 Crops, choice of: 107, 182. 



See also Rotation of Crops. 

 Cumberland: 8, 50, 66, 69, 82, 214. 



Dairying: 5-7, 13, 17 f., 40, 62, 64, 69, 



73. 79> 82 -4 89 f., 106, 108, uof., 



155, 172-8, 181, 183 n., 193-6, 203, 



208 f., 219^ 



Dairymaids: 89, 172, 174, 177. 

 David, Dr.; cited: 155, 177. 

 Day-labour: see Labourers. 

 Definition of small farmer: 4, 89. 

 Definitions of holdings: 89-93, 99. 

 Demand for Small Holdings: 67, 89, i26f., 



141, 148 f., 157, 214-22. 

 Denbighshire: 216. 

 Denmark: 195, 198, 209, 210. 

 Depopulation : see Emigration, Rural 



Exodus. 

 Depression: see Agricultural Depression, 



Industrial Depression. 

 Derbyshire: 8, 31, 90. 

 Devon : 7 n. 3, 42 n. 4, 82, 98, 107 n. i, 1 10, 



166, 172, 178, 182, 192. 

 "Dirty" work: 172 f., 178. 

 Distress, Agricultural : see Agricultural 



Depression. 

 Distribution of Holdings : see Geographical 



Distribution. 



District Councils: 127, 128. 

 Division of farms: 102, 113, 118, 119 f., 



184 f., 203. 



Division of labour: 161, 177. 

 Donaldson, James; cited: 5, 8, 18, 19 n., 



20, 39. 



Dorset: 8, 82. 



Drainage: 20, 56, 59, 60 n. i. 

 Durham: 8, 110 n. 6. 



Eastern counties, the: 67, 68, 77, 83 f., 

 103-5, no, 189, 191, 192. 



Economic forces: 20 f., 26, 28, 34, 51 f., 

 94, 95 f' 101-13, 126 f., 134, I43 

 145, i5' JS^, i53-*86, 203, 211- 



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