General Report of the Agricultural State, and Political Circumstances, of Scotland, Drawn Up for the Consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement, Under the Direction of the Right Hon. Sir John Sinclair, Bart. the President, Volume 3

A. Constable & Company, 1814 - Agriculture

Sheep	3

CONCLUSION	15

Cattle	23

A breeding and fattening stock	140

The foreign breeds	150

Horses	174

The Clydesdale breed	180

Of the distempers of horses	211

To give a preference to domestic agricultural productions in the home market	439

To encourage the exportation of any surplus produce	440

To promote the improvement of waste or unproductive lands	441

To encourage permanent and substantial improvements	442

To promote the establishment of corporations for carrying on be neficial improvements	445

ADDENDA STATISTICAL TABLES OR RESULT OF THE INQUIRIES REGARDING THE GEOGRAPHICAL AGRICULTURAL AND POLITICA...	1

Climate ib 3 Winds	2

Principal rivers and the extent of territory from which they de rive their waters 3	3

Conclusion	221

Of labourers by the day or the piece	237

Table giving a general view of the progressive increase	245

Of cottages attached to farms	253

CHAP XVI	289

Commerce	321

Weights and measures	349

the cornlaws	356

CHAP XVII	373

Of the enemies injurious to the farmer in his professional pur	399

CHAP XVIII	413

The rules which have been adopted by agricultural societies	424

GENERAL VIEW OF THE MEANS BY WHICH THE AGRICUL TURAL PROSPERITY OF A COUNTRY CAN BE PROMOTED	433

To promote the collection and diffusion of useful knowledge	435

State of property 4	4

Number of acres in one year under the different crops or in fal low 5 10	5

Livestock and their produce 6	6

Fisheries 7	7

Amount of territorial productions 8	8

Peerage of Scotland 9	9

State of the Peerage at the last election 10	10

Religious persuasions 11	11

Explanation of the pyramid of statistical inquiry 13	13

INDEX 15	15

Commerce	18

The poor	19

Population	20

Title	General Report of the Agricultural State, and Political Circumstances, of Scotland, Drawn Up for the Consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement, Under the Direction of the Right Hon. Sir John Sinclair, Bart. the President, Volume 3 General Report of the Agricultural State, and Political Circumstances, of Scotland, Drawn Up for the Consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement, Under the Direction of the Right Hon. Sir John Sinclair, Bart. the President, Board of Agriculture (Great Britain)
Author	Board of Agriculture (Great Britain)
Publisher	A. Constable & Company, 1814
Original from	the University of California
Digitized	Jun 14, 2010

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