Rent 1 7-1/2 Bread 6 0 Bacon 2 6 Tea and sugar 1 3 Cheese 1 6 Butter 1 6 Fuel 1 3 Candles and soap 0 6 Clothes 1 6 Schooling 0 3 Sundries 0 6 --------- 18 4-1/2 ========= There is no fresh meat, and it is hard to say where any economy could be practised. CONTRACT PRICES OF BUTCHER'S MEAT PER CWT. AT GREENWICH HOSPITAL, 1730-1842.[770] L s. d. 1730 1 5 8 1740 1 8 0 1750 1 6 6 1760 1 11 6 1770 1 8 6 1780 1 12 6 1790 1 16 10 1800 4 4 1810 3 12 0 1815 3 8 0 1820 3 10 4 1825 2 19 6 1830 2 3 6 1835 2 0 7 1840 2 14 0 1842 2 12 8 FOOTNOTES: [760] C. Wren Hoskyns, _Pamphlet on Agricultural Statistics_, p. 19. [761] _English Agriculture in 1850-1_, p. 521. Cf. above, p. 331. [762] Smith, _Memoirs of Wool_, i. 157. [763] In 1908 the rental of agricultural land was 3-1/2 per cent. of the total income of the country. See _The Times_ May 13, 1909. [764] Ibid. ii. 264. [765] Cunningham, _Industry and Commerce_, ii. 693. Cf. above, p. 328. [766] Trusler, _Practical Husbandry_, p. 153. [767] Farmer's Magazine (1817), p. 6. Statistics at this date, however, must be taken with caution. They were usually estimates. Cf. above, p. 334, for holdings in England. [768] _Parliamentary Reports, Commissioners_ (1881), xvi, 305. [769] _Parliamentary Reports, Commissioners_ (1881), xvi. 310. [770] McCulloch, _Commercial Dictionary_ (1852), p. 271. INDEX A Abbot's Ripton, 72. Aberdeen Angus cattle, 288, 343. Accounts, keeping, 29, 49. Accumulation of estates, 123. Acre, 2; tenantry, 253. Advantages of large farms, 202. Affer, the, 35. Agricultural Holdings Acts, 283, 296, 299-303. Agricultural revolution, the, of eighteenth century, 162. Agriculture, state of, 28, 38, 111, 113, 115, 123, 132, 160, 162, 192, 204, 211, 221, 229, 244, 245, 250, 265, 267, 274, 287, 305; seventeenth-century writers on, 127; state of, in eighteenth century, 162, 192, 221, 229; nineteenth, 244, 245, 262-70, 271, 287. Aitchison, 237. Akermanni, 13. Alderney cattle, 233. Ale, 10. Allotments, 196, 230, 253, 255n., 315-7. Allowance system, 237. Allowances, parish, 238, 241, 257, 284. Almaine, corn from, 20. Almonds, 93, 136. Amalgamation of farms, 29, 46, 47, 95, 119, 120, 162, 202, 258, 317. America, gold discoveries in, 287; imports from, 262, 293, 323-4. Ancaster, Earl of, estate of, 321. Andover, 39. Anti-Corn Law League, 280. Apples, 15, 65, 93, 129, 130, 131, 135-6, 143, 171, 186-9, 329, 332. (_See_ Prices.)