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CONTENTS
OF
VOLUME SECOND.
CHAPTER II.
Page.
1
Sect. 11. Soiling or feeding Stock with cut Green Food
-12. On the Propriety of having Part of a Farm in per-
manent Pasture
13. On Hay-making......
CONCLUSION OF PART I.
1. General View of the improved System of Husbandry in
2. Improvements of which the Husbandry of Scotland is sus-
ceptible....
PART II.
INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS,
DISSERTATION I.-On the Size of Farms, and on the
VARIOUS MODES OF OCCUPYING Allotments of Land,
FOR FARMING, AND OTHER PURPOSES OF A SIMILAR
NATURE,...........
Page:
103
5. Turnip-land Arable Farms,
6. Commercial Farms,.........
7. Pasture Farms,................
8. Farms for Accommodation or Amusement,...
9. Farms of Experiment and public Utility,............ 140
136
.... 137
139
ib.
DISSERTATION II.-ON LEASES; AND THE MEANS BY
WHICH A LIBERAL SYSTEM OF CONNEXION BETWEEN
THE LANDLORD AND TENANT CAN BEST BE ESTABLISHED, 167
1. On the Capital necessary to carry on Farming Opera-
tions,
2. On the Expence and Profit of Farming,
3. On the Proportion of Produce to be exacted as Rent, and
on the Mode of Payment,.
169
183
..... 195
4. On the Advantages of Leases, their Duration, and the
Covenants to be inserted in them,....................................................................... 206
DISSERTATION III.-OF THE VARIOUS DESCRIPTIONS OF
PERSONS EMPLOYED IN AGRIGULTURAL LABOUR, IN THE
MORE IMPROVED DISTRICTS OF SCOTLAND,..................... 233
CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THE SUBJECTS DISCUSSED IN
THE PRECEDING DISSERTATIONS,
APPENDIX.
No. 1. Of various Circumstances which have indirectly contri-
buted to the Excellence of Scotch Husbandry,.........
2. Hints regarding the Improvement of Waste Land,
3. On the Necessity of an Act of Parliament to encou-
rage Draining,
5
17
4. Proofs of the unfavourable Idea entertained by Bri-
tish Statesmen, of the Ability of this Country to raise
a Sufficiency of Grain for its own Consumption, and
of the little Idea they entertained of the Importance
of Agriculture, prior to the Establishment of a Na-
tional Institution for promoting its Improvement, 21
5. Account of James Small, and of his Improvements in
the Construction of Agricultural Implements,
6. Description of a Machine for Dressing, (Humbling)
Barley or Bear,...............................................
23
34
No. 7. On the Manufacture of Pot, or Pearl Barley, 36
8. Account of Sea-weed being exhibited to Cows by way
9. Account of a simple Steaming Apparatus for cooking
Roots, or other Fodder, for Live Stock, with a
Drawing, explaining the Nature of the proposed
Apparatus,....................................
10. Comparison between the Advantages of Feeding
Cattle with Potatoes and Turnips,
11. On the Culture of Rape, instead of Summer-Fallow,
on thin Clay Soils,.............
39
40
43
4.5
12. Farther Information from William Hunter, Esq. of
Tynefield, regarding the Experiment he tried of
Folding Sheep, and Feeding them with Turnips,... 47
13. Account of Mr Hunter of Tynefield's System of
Farming, on the Principle of converting all the
Straw of a Farm into Dung,
14. On Grubs and Caterpillars, and the Advantage of
Crows for the Destruction of such Vermin, .......................
15. On the Advantages that would arise from the Dis-
covery of a Reaping Machine,
50
56
59
16. On Depopulation, by increasing the Size of Farms, 61
17. On the fatal Effects resulting from the Want of
Capital, in carrying on Agricultural Operations,
extracted from Dr Anderson's Works on Agricul-
ture, vol. iii. p. 97,...............................................
19. On the System of putting in Spring Crops without
Spring Ploughing, and the Advantage of that
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