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CONTENTS. 
Introduction ., .. ., .. Page 11 
Chapter I. — Rome and Foreign Supply of Food. 
Functions of Government in regard to the Supply of Food — Value of Cereal 
and Animal Food imported from Abroad — Eapid Rise in the Value of Meat 
— may be checked by Importations from America — Proportion of Home and 
Foreign Supply of Food in this Country — England now chiefly dependent on 
the latter for further Increase — Cost of Carriage equal to the Rent of Land 
here — Agricultural Statistics sufiBciently accurate for use — Their main 
Features — Diminution of Corn in Ireland — Present Agricultural Prosperity 
of that Country — Extent of the various Crops and numbers of Live-Stock— 
Quantities and Value of Home and Foreign Produce, respectively, consumed 
annually in this Country .. .. ., ,. .. Pages 
Chapter- II. — Changes and Progress in Agriculture in recent Years. 
Reaping and Mowing Machines — Steam Plough — Double-Furrow Plough — 
General use of Steam-power — Successive Com Crops — use to which this 
might be put in time of War — capable of checking a permanent great Rise 
in Price of Wheat — Autumn Culture and Steam-power, with imported 
Manures, have given great command of Crops — Mr. Lawes' Experiments : 
their Value and some of their special Lessons — The Experiments at Wobum 
— Extension of Land-drainage and Improvement of Farm Buildings and 
Labourers' Cottages — Change within 30 years, more iu general diffusion of 
Improved Practice, and better Breeds of Stock, than in the introduction of 
New Systems — Greatest change caused by the Prosperity of the Country 
and the rise in the Value of Animal Food — vast consequent Increase in the 
Capital Value of Live-Stock and Landed Property . . .. Pages IS- 2-/ 
Chapter III. — Soil, Climate, and Crops. 
Extent of Country and Proportion of various Crops — as influenced by Climate, 
Situation, and Rainfall — Weight and relative Value of Corn Crops — Ex- 
amples of Soils of greatest and least natural Fertility — and of an average 
soil unmanured and specially man mod — Plants which 23redominate in 
Uncultivated Land .. .. .. .. Pa^es 24-27 
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