Contents. 
449 = 153 
The Longhoms as Milkers — The ' Field ' on this Breed — Channel Island 
Cattle — The 'Field' on the Histor}' of the Breed — English Breeders — 
Guernseys and Jerseys — Scale of Points — Norfolk and Suffolk Polls — Mr. 
Fulcher on this Breed — Welsh Cattle — Pembrokeshires — Anglesea Breed- 
West Highland Cattle — Galloways — Aberdeenshire — Ayrshires — Leicesters 
The old Breed — Points of modern Leicesters — Weight of Mutton and Wool 
— Border Leicesters — Points — The old Lincolns — Improved Lincolns — 
Great Weights and Fleeces — Locality — Fairs — Breeders — Teeswater Breed 
— Romney Marsh Sheep — Weights — Devon Longwools — Points and 
Weights — Points of Cotswold Sheep — Weight and Wool — Locality of the 
Breed — Breeders — Ryeland Sheep — Southdown Breeders — Points of South- 
down Sheep — Babraham and ilerton Southdowns — Qualifications — Weights 
of Mutton and Wool — Hampshire Down Sheep — Mr. E. P. Squarey on this 
Breed — Hampshire Down Breeders — Sheep Fairs in Hants and Wilts — 
Weight and Wool — Creation of the Oxfordshire Downs — Points — Weights 
and Wool — Breeders — Origin of the Shropshires — Points of the Breed — 
Weights and Wool — Locality — Dorset Homed — Early Lamb — Exmoor 
Sheep — Welsh Mountain Sheep — Eadnoi-s — Cheviots — Points — Fairs — 
Black-faces — Points — Fairs — Lonks — Herd wicks — Points — Local Breeds 
not altogether superseded — Ancient Varieties of Pigs — Berkshires — Mr. 
Coleman's Description — Breeders — -Tamworth Pigs — Improved Dorsets — 
Essex Pigs — Suffolk Pigs — Large-breed Whites — Small-breed Whites 
— Points — Middle - breed Whites- — Horse - breeding — Suffolks — ■ Points — 
Breeders — Clydesdales — Points — Breeders — Old - English or Shire-bred — 
Points— Breeders Pages 266-315 
CHAPTER VII. 
liaraderistic Crops which, prevail in the Mural Economy of the Country 
— Different Courses of Cropping, as affected by Climate and Locality 
— Succession of Crops. 
Agricultural Itinerary — Soils of Kent — Rotation on Heavy Land in the North 
— Canary-seed — Crops in the Isle of Sheppey — Crops of the Isle of Thanet — 
Rotation on the Chalk— Market Gardens — Fruit and Hops — Romney Marsh 
—Sheep Management — Soils of Middlesex — Rotation of Croj^s — Sale of Hay, 
Straw, and Green Forage — Market Gardens — Soils and Crops of Surrey — 
Soils and Crops of Sussex — Soils of Hampshire — Course of Cropping in the 
Woodlands District— Crops in the Southern District — Rotations on the 
Chalk — Mr. Wilkinson on Advantages of Barley after Wheat — Arguments 
for two Turnip Crops in Succession — Sainfoin — Wiltshire — Dorsetshire — 
Devonshire — Cornwall — Soils of Somersetshire — Rotations on New Red 
Sandstone — Heavy-land Rotations — Gloucestershire — The Cotswold Hills 
— Rotations — Raftering — Paring and Burning— Crops in the Vales — Here- 
fordshire — The Five-course Husbandry — Details of the Tillage — Oxford- 
shire—Crops in the Chiltern District— Mr. C. S. Read on Extra Crops— 
Trifohum — Shropshire — Wheat-land District — Coi-ve Dale— Light Land — 
Clover alternating with Seeds — Warwickshire — Heavy-land Fanning — 
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