A Short History of English Agriculture eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 420 pages of information about A Short History of English Agriculture.

A Short History of English Agriculture eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 420 pages of information about A Short History of English Agriculture.

Cattle, Chillingham, 336;
  diseases, 85;
  export of, 326, 330;
  improvement in, 336, 337, 338 (see Cattle, size of);
  number of, in 1867 and 1878, 288;
  in 1907, 333-4;
  original breed of, 336;
  price of, see Prices;
  size of, 37, 104, 146, 169, 288, 336, 342;
  separation of, for summer pasture, 124;
  sorts of (1726), 167 (see under Various breeds);
  about 1800, 235;
  in 1839, 274;
  in 1892, 274, 336;
  time to buy, 125. (See Bakewell, Collings, Exports, and Imports.)

Cattle plagues, of eighteenth century, 172, 185-6, 290;
  of nineteenth century, 289-90, 294.

Cauliflowers, 143.

Causes of high prices at end of eighteenth century, 240.

Celery, 318.

Chamberlayne, 259.

Cheddar cheese, 173.

Cheese, 33, 63n., 66, 161, 173, 174, 200, 206n., 276, 305, 313, 325.
  (See Prices, Exports, and Imports.)

Chelmsford, 110, 171, 307.

Chemistry, agricultural, 232, 243, 275.

Cherries, 15, 129, 130, 131, 136, 143, 171, 329, 332.

Cheshire, 3, 110, 167, 173, 224, 276, 295, 306.

Chestnuts, 136.

Cheviots, 344, 346,

Child, Josiah, 117.

Christ Church, Canterbury, 42.

Cider, 37, 130, 131, 135-6, 149, 187-9, 207, 269.

Cistercians, good farmers, 29, 327.

Civil War, checks improvement, 113;
  family settlements after, 123.

Claret made in Oxfordshire, 145.

Clarke, 236.

Close parishes, 158, 284.

Cloth made in England, 69, 70.

Clothes, part of wages, 28, 109;
  of labourer, 54, 71, 109, 185, 206-8, 211, 311;
  of farmer, 105, 213.

Clover, cost of growing, 198;
  extent of, 331, 333, 353;
  introduced, 111, 112;
  spread of, 115, 141-2, 164, 166, 178, 179, 191, 194;
  seed, price of, 223;
  sown with corn, 166.

Clun Forest sheep, 344, 346.

Clydesdale horse, 335.

Cobbett, 107, 226, 265, 268.

Cobden, Richard, 279n., 280, 285n.

Coinage, depreciation of, 44, 59, 89.

Coke of Holkham, 163, 182, 224-8, 275, 341.

‘Coke’s Clippings’, 227.

Coleseed, 115.

Coliberti, 8.

Collings, the, 146, 163, 167, 233-5, 337.

Combe, 53.

‘Comet,’ 234, 235.

Commissions, Royal, on Agriculture, &c., 260, 266, 289, 294-6, 300, 303,
  304, 305, 311-14, 316, 318, 320, 329.

Committees, Parliamentary, 256, 258, 263n., 266, 267.

Common, John, 303.

Common fields, 22, 26, 78, 112, 113, 118-9, 120, 194, 253, 258.

Common land, 3, 145, 148;
  evils of, 148, 194, 256, 257;
  improvement of, 166.

Common pasture, see Pasture and Meadows.

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