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FAGE* 
rieties of; Price; Weight; Mr. Knight’s Sheep; 
Wool; Folding; Improvements in Sheep; Lambing 
Time; Attention necessary; Disorders in Sheep; Size 
of Cattle; the Dairy ; Cheese Making; Breeding 
Calves ; Feeding, Horses, Oxpn; Keeping of Horses; 
Numbers kept; Mules; Asses; Hogs; Rabbits; Pi¬ 
geons; Poultry, Varieties of; Bees, &c. - - - - - 215 
CHAP. XV.—Rural Economy; Labour; Servants; La¬ 
bourers ; Hours and Price of Labour; Provisions; 
Beverage; Price of Provisions; Fuel; Wood; Coal, 
brought by Water Carriage; Stubble Burnt - - - 252 
CHAP. XVI.—Political Economy; Roads; Public Roads 
improved; Private Roads, bad; Road Club; Rivers, 
the Severn, Avon, Teme, Stour; Navigable Canals, 
the Staffordshire and Worcestershire, the Droitwich, 
the Birmingham and Worcester, the Leominster; Fairs; 
Markets ; Manufactures ; Commerce ; Stourport; 
Droitwich Salt; Poor; Population ------ 260 
CHAP. XVII.—Obstacles to Improvement; Tithes; bad 
Roads; Ignorance; Common Fields; Waste Lands; 
Want of Leases; Remedies proposed - - - - - - 2£G 
CHAP. XVIII.—Miscellaneous; Agricultural Societies; 
Weights and Measures; Vermin; Worms; Rats and 
Mice; Moles; Sparrows, and other Birds; Extracts 
and Remarks - -- -- -- -- -- -- 094 
CONCLUSION—and Means of Improvement - - - 302 
APPENDIX; Itinerary through the County at different 
Times, and various Visits and Excursions; Indigenous 
Plants of the County - - -- -- -- -- - 306 
AGRICULTURAL 
