in Norfolk, 182, 276;
produce, per acre, in 1770, 197.

Rye-grass, 178-9, 218, 276.

Ryeland sheep, 344, 345, 346.

S

Saffron, 62, 106, 143, 167;
Walden, 106, 167.

Sainfoin, 112, 115, 143, 191, 194, 225, 331.

Saint Paul's, manors of, 16, 29, 50, 57, 58.

Sales, famous, 234n., 235, 338, 339.

Salt, value of, 26.

Samford Hall, 190.

Scotland,
cattle of, 336, 343;
wheat crop in, 332n.

Scott, Reynold, 89, 151.

Scottish cattle, 168-9.

Scudamore, Lord, 132, 3^8.

Seasons,
bad, 20, 42n., 66, 69, 89, 115, 157, 179, 184, 185, 186, 210,
223, 224, 237, 239, 242, 243, 247, 262, 265, 277, 292, 293,
294, 295, 297, 305;
good, 239, 244, 262, 266, 287.

Seed,
amount of, for wheat, 33, 67n.,84, 177, 179, 180, 227, 246;
for clover, 112, 166, 176, 218;
clover, price of, 166.

Sefton, Lord, estate of, 320n.

Selions, 318.

Self-binding reaper, 304.

Seneschal, 12.

Settled Land Acts, 305.

Settlement, law of parochial, 157-8, 209, 238, 269n., 284.

Settlements, family, 123, 259-60.

Seventeenth century, characteristics of, 111.

Sheaf-binding apparatus, 237.

Shearing sheep, 125.

Sheep, 94, 104, 126, 137, 146, 161, 200, 225, 233, 236, 263, 274,
275, 288, 290;
diseases of, 84;
export of, 326, 330 (_see_ Live stock);
improvement of, 37, 164, 202;
number of,
in 1867, 288;
in 1877 and 1907, 333-4;
price of, _see_ Prices;
varieties of, 171, 172, 215-7, 233, 235, 275, 288, 343-6;
washing, cost of, 65, 125, 354.

Sheep-rot, 184, 242, 265n., 294.

Shepherd, wages of, 61, 71, 87, 109.

Shire horse, 35, 335;
Society, 335.

Shoeing, 36, 65, 84, 203.

Shorthorn cattle, 167, 225, 233-5, 274, 288, 336-8, 339, 342.

Shows, Agricultural, 233, 273-5, 341.

Shropshire, 11n., 16n., 159, 173, 219, 220, 225, 250, 339;
sheep, 275, 288, 344, 345, 346.

Siberian Railway, 324.

Sicks, uncultivated patches, 99n.

Sinclair, Sir J., 229, 230, 232.

Sittingboume, 128, 143.

Sixteenth century, character of, 89.

Slaves, 8, 11, 20.

Smith, Adam, 134, 210.

Smith of Deanston, 214, 271-2.

Smithfield, 168, 169;
cattle show, 218, 273, 339;
prices at, 239, 240, 241, 247, 265.

Smyth, John, 111.

Society, Royal Agricultural, 193.

Society for Encouragement of Arts, &c., 194> 227, 303.

Socmen, 7.

Somerset, 19, 58, 107, 168, 250, 309, 340;
sheep, 344.

Somerville, Loid, 231.

Southams cattle, 342.

Southdown sheep, 21