Exhibition, Great, 287, 304.

Exmoor sheep, 344, 346.

Exporting country, England ceases to be an, 161, 163.

Exports of butter and cheese, 326-7.

Exports of corn, 63n., 64, 70, 159-161, 183, 185, 242, 267, 348-9;
  reaches its maximum, 186;
  of livestock, 325-6;
  of wool, 39, 69, 172, 327.

Extensive cultivation, 2.

Extent of the Manor, 10.

Eyton, Mr., 339.

F

Faggots, price of, 114.

Fairs for hops, 171;
  horses, 105;
  sheep, 172n.;
  wool, 172n.

Fallows, utilized, 112, 177, 181, 191, 195;
  in 1877, 1907, 331;
  in 1850, 353.

Families employed on common and on enclosed land, 195.

Farm or feorm, 5.

Farmer, day’s work of, in seventeenth century, 134;
  discontent of, 127-8, 184;
  financial position of, 101, 103, 156, 162, 184, 195, 204, 212-3, 243,
    247, 257-8, 264-5, 293, 307, 308, 310, 320;
  growing more skilful, 101, 132.

Farmer’s Letters, Young’s, 192.

Farmhouses, 51, 101, 116, 119, 213, 226.

Farming, bad, 273, 281;
  improvement in, 28, 111, 113, 115, 132, 160, 162, 192, 204, 211, 221,
    229, 244, 265, 267, 271, 274, 275, 281, 288.

Farming calendar, 17, 124.

Farms, in sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, 116-7;
  size of (1768), 202.

Farnham, hops, 171.

Fashion, farming becomes the, 192, 193.

Fattening oxen, 31, 58, 125, 136-7, 166, 214, 216, 225n., 235, 288;
  sheep, 112, 166, 225n.;
  chickens, 170.

‘Favourite’, 234.

Feeding pigs, 16, 125.

Fences, legislation as to, 4.

Fens, the, 78, 123, 170, 318.

Feversham, fruit growing near, 128, 171.

Fifteenth century, character of, 68.

Figs, 15, 93, 136.

Filberts, 93, 136.

Fitzherbert, 31, 61, 76, 77, 83-5, 111, 132, 135.

Fixtures, 301.

Flanders, cattle, 338;
  clover from, 111, 166;
  hops from, 86, 150;
  wool exported to, 39, 327;
  sheep exported to, 326.

Flax, 17, 105, 135, 141, 151-2, 191, 251, 331, 332.

Fleece, weight of, 37, 41, 104, 200, 215.

Fleta, quoted, 12, 13.

Floor, for hop-picking, 91, 151.

Flour, exports and imports of, 348-9.

Fluctuations in price of corn, 35, 66, 89, 133, 142, 157, 186, 221,
  223, 277.

Fold soke, 9.

Folding quality, of sheep, 253.

Food, labourer’s, 9, 25, 34, 37, 53, 54, 61, 62, 102, 110, 134,
    139-40, 164, 200-8, 211, 240n., 268, 290-1, 297, 308, 311;
  farmer’s, 101, 128, 213, 240n., 246, 308.

Foot-and-mouth disease, see Cattle Plagues.

Foot-rot, 294.

Foreman, requirements of, 139.