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Chap. V1. Appropriating commonable lands.— Origin, general principles, practice of commissioners of enclosure. VII. Consolidating detached property.—By exchange, purchase,&c. Vili. Arranging landed estates.-— Quantities, connection,&c. _ IX. Laying out farms and cottages.—Roads, buildings,&c. X. Improving farms.— Climate, soil, roads, water, rivers, wastes, bogs, mountains,’ rocks, woods,&c.&c. XI. Mills, manufactories, villages, markets, cottages,&c. XII. Mines, quarries, pits, and metalliferous bodies,&c. XIII. Fisheries and marine productions.—Marine fisheries, river, lake, and stream fisheries, vegetable marine productions. XIV. Plantations and woodlands.— Soils, trees, formation, culture, management, sale,&c.&c. XV. Orchards.—Soil, situation, climate, sorts of trees, culture, gathering, storing, cyder making,&c. XVI. Execution of improvements.—By the landlord, by the tenant; general cautions,&c.

Boox III. Management of landed property. Chap. 1. Executive establishment.—Duties, qualifications, stewards, substewards, bailiffs, ground- offices,&c. Il. Administrator or manager.—Principles of conduct, tenants, letting, selling, rents, reductions, covenants, cottagers, accounts, maps, Xc.

Boox IV. Selection, hiring, and stocking of farms. Chap. 1. Considerations as to the farm before hiring.— Climate, soil, subsoil, elevation, surface, aspect, markets, extent, tenure, rent, taxes, vicinage,&c. II. Considerations as to the farmer ore hiring.—Personal character, professional knowledge, experience, capital,&c. III. Choice of stock.—Live stock”for labor, breeding, feeding, implements, servants,&c. IV. Management.—Accounts,;arrangement of labor, servants, markets, domestic and personal matters.

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Boox V. Culture of farm lands. Chap. 1. General processes.—Rotations, fallows, manures. Il. Culture of cereal grasses.— Wheat, rye, barley, oats, other species. Ill. Leguminous agricultural plants.—Pea, bean, tare, others. IV. Roots or leaves.—Potatoe, turnip, carrot, parsnip, beet or marigold, cabbage tribe, others. V. Herbage plants.— Clovers, lucerne, saintfoin, others.

VI. Cultivated grasses.—Hay grasses, temporary, permanent, pasture grasses, Woburn experiments. ‘VII. Management of permanent grass lands.—Mowing or meadow, pastures for feeding, rearing, improvement of grass lands by temporary conversion to tillage, draining, paring,

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VIII. Vermin or animals noxious in agriculture.

Part IV. Sratistics oF British AGRICULTURE.

Boox I. Present state of agriculture in the British Isles.

I. Practitioners.— Operators, commercial cultivators, professors, artists, patrons.

I. Kinds of farm.

Ill. Topographical survey.—England, county by county.—Wales, ditto.— Scotland, ditto.—Ireland, ditto.

Iv. Literature of agriculture.—British, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, American.

V. Police and laws.

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Boox II. Future progress of agriculture in Britain. Chap. 1. Improvement by increase of profits. II. By increased taste for agricultural knowledge. Ill. By better education of practitioners.

KaenpARIAL InpEx.—GENERAL INDEX.

Whoev... will compare the above rude outline with the contents of any agricultural work extant, vill be convinced of the superior comprehensiveness of the Encyclopedia; and when the 1Ma~onse number of engravings are considered, illustrative of the history of agriculture, of its Mmplements, machines, buildings, operations, farms, estates, roads, waters, plants, weeds, animals, vermin,&c., it may be safely affirmed that no preceding work(unless the Encyclopedia of Gardening) ever contained such a body of instruc- tion within the same limits. ze:

Bayswater, 8th April, 1824.

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