A Short History of English Agriculture eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 420 pages of information about A Short History of English Agriculture.

A Short History of English Agriculture eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 420 pages of information about A Short History of English Agriculture.

Haggard, Rider, Mr., 314-5.

Hallam, 210.

Hambleton, Sir A. Barker of, 142.

Hamlets, 5.

Hampshire, 28, 36, 79, 116, 132, 145, 165n., 240, 253, 266, 268, 306n.,
    309, 314;
  sheep, 275, 288, 344, 345.

Handborough, 53.

Harrison, ‘Description of England,’ 19, 28, 50, 56, 86, 91, 95, 101,
  104, 149.

Harrow, the, and harrowing, 17, 65, 84, 125, 135, 141, 153-4, 166,
  176, 176, 179, 194, 201, 203, 246.

Hartlib, Simon, 127, 128, 130, 131, 132, 142-3.

Harvest, importance of, 9, 108.

Harvest homes, 104, 269.

Harvest work, 25, 62, 125, 138, 209.

Hatfield Chase, 78.

Hawsted, 20, 30, 35, 54, 57, 58, 62, 63, 67, 112, 115, 116, 178,
  179, 205, 207.

Hay, 112;
  price of, see Prices;
  carrying off, 178, 219, 302;
  imports of, 262.

Hay tedder, 304.

Haymaking, 4, 44, 124, 125, 138, 142.

Headlands, 3.

‘Heaths’, Shropshire, 220.

Hedges, 124, 148, 150, 163, 178, 282.

Hemp, 100, 105, 135, 151.

Henley, Walter of, 19n., 31, 36, 83.

Henry of Huntingdon, 327.

Hens, number of eggs from, 35.

Herdwick sheep, 344, 346.

Hereford cattle, 233, 235, 274, 288, 336, 338-40, 342.

Herefordshire, 5, 40, 128, 130, 132, 136, 143, 171, 186-7, 188, 240,
  247, 249, 250, 267, 291, 306, 309, 316.

Hertfordshire, 150, 174, 179, 225, 238, 306n.

Hentzner’s description of English fanning, 104.

Hide, 16.

Highland, West, cattle, 217, 343.

Hoeing, 153, 166, 188, 201-2, 354;
  horse, 198, 201.

Holder, the small, 73, 76, 119, 121-2, 164, 191, 195, 202, 205, 220,
    253-61, 268, 308, 310, 311, 316-9;
  decrease of, causes of, 122, 259;
  new class of, 260.

Holderness cattle, 337.

Holdings, various sizes of, 334.

Holland,
  Shorthorns from, 337;
  live stock in, 334;
  wheat crops in, 332n.

Honey, 10, 144.

Hops, 28, 86-7, 89-91, 111, 125, 128, 143, 149, 150, 171, 297-9,
    329-30, 331;
  acreage of, in 1729, 171, 297-8, 329;
  average crop, 333;
  duty on, 297-8;
  imports of, 329-30;
  profit on, 90, 150, 171, 298-9, 330;
  substitutes, 298, 329.

Horse fairs, 105.

Horse shoes, 36.

Horses,
  deterioration of; 85, 146;
  export of, 325-6;
  kinds of, 274, 335;
  number of, 333;
  size of, 104, 105, 217;
  tax on, 249;
  working powers of, 31, 153, 204.
  (See Prices.)

Houghton, account of potatoes, 106, 127, 165.

Houses, wooden, 50 (see Farmhouses);
  of the squire and yeoman, 103, 212.

Housing cattle and horses, 126.

Howberry, 175-6.

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