The Evils of Common Fields.--Hops.--Implements.--Manures.--Gregory King.--Corn Laws CHAPTER XIV 1700-65. General Characteristics of the Eighteenth Century.--Crops. --Cattle.--Dairying.--Poultry.--Tull and the New Husbandry.--Bad Times.--Fruit-growing CHAPTER XV 1700-65. Townshend.--Sheep-rot.--Cattle Plague.--Fruit-growing CHAPTER XVI 1765-93. Arthur Young.--Crops and their Cost.--The Labourers' Wages and Diet.--The Prosperity of Farmers.--The Country Squire.--Elkington.--Bakewell.--The Roads.--Coke of Holkham CHAPTER XVII 1793-1815. The Great French War.--The Board of Agriculture.--High Prices, and Heavy Taxation CHAPTER XVIII Enclosure.--The Small Owner CHAPTER XIX 1816-37. Depression CHAPTER XX 1837-75. Revival of Agriculture.--The Royal Agricultural Society.--Corn Law Repeal.--A Temporary Set-back.--The Halcyon Days CHAPTER XXI 1875-1908. Agricultural Distress again.--Foreign Competition.-- Agricultural Holdings Act.--New Implements.--Agricultural Commissions.--The Situation in 1908 CHAPTER XXII Imports and Exports.--Live Stock CHAPTER XXIII Modern Farm Live Stock APPENDICES I. Average Prices from 1259 to 1700 II. Exports and Imports of Wheat and Flour from and into England, unimportant years omitted III. Average Prices per Imperial Quarter of British Corn in England and Wales, in each year from 1771 to 1907 inclusive IV. Miscellaneous Information LANDMARKS IN ENGLISH AGRICULTURE 1086. Domesday inquest, most cultivated land in tillage. Annual value of land about 2d. an acre. 1216-72. Henry III. Assize of Bread and Ale. 1272-1307. Edward I. General progress. Walter of Henley. 1307. Edward II. Decline. 1315. Great famine. 1337. Export of wool prohibited. 1348-9. Black Death. Heavy blow to manorial system. Many demesne lands let, and much land laid down to grass. 1351. Statute of Labourers. 1360. Export of corn forbidden. 1381. Villeins' revolt. 1393. Richard II allows export of corn under certain conditions. 1463. Import of wheat under 6s. 8d. prohibited. End of fifteenth century. Increase of enclosure. 1523. Fitzherbert's _Surveying and Husbandry_. 1540. General rise in prices and rents begins. 1549. Kett's rebellion. The last attempt of the English peasant to obtain redress by force. 1586. Potatoes introduced. 1601. Poor Law Act of Elizabeth. 1645. Turnips and clover introduced as field crops. 1662. Statute of Parochial Settlement. 1664. Importation of cattle, sheep, and swine forbidden. 1688. Bounty of 5s. per quarter on export of wheat, and high duty on import. 1733. Tull publishes his _Horse-hoeing Husbandry_. 1739. Great sheep-rot. 1750. Exports of corn reached their maximum. 1760. Bakewell began experimenting. 1760 (about). Industrial and agrarian revolution, and great increase of enclosure. 1764. Elkington's new drainage system. 1773. Wheat allowed to be imported at a nominal duty of 6d. a quarter when over 48s.