hland, 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.

'Hubback', 234.

Hundred Rolls, 28, 76, 327.

Hunting, 140, 210.

Huntingdonshire, 3, 25n., 72, 120, 123, 222, 306n., 309.

Hurdles, 354.

Husbandry, old and new, _see_ Cultivation.

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Implements, cost of, rises, 242;
in seventeenth century, 135, 152-3, 154;
in eighteenth century, 188, 194, 203, 229, 236;
in nineteenth century, 271, 273-5, 276, 287n., 303-4, 316;
improvement in, 113;
list of, in eleventh century, 17-52;
prices of, 83, 138.

Importing country, England becomes an, 163.

Imports cause low prices, 295.

Imports
of clover seed, 166;
of corn, 20, 63n., 66, 69, 70, 159-61, 183, 184, 223, 224, 230, 240,
241-4, 247, 248, 249, 262, 266, 267, 277-80, 287, 293, 305, 323-4,
330, 348-9;
of dairy produce, 325;
of fruit, 188, 329;
of hops, 150;
of linen, 105;
of livestock, 161, 280-1, 305, 324-6, 337;
of meat, 161, 305, 325, 330;
of wool, 39, 161, 305, 328, 354.

Improvements, amount expended in, 320-1;
needed in eighteenth century, 191;
in farming in eighteenth century, 192 (_see_ Agriculture, state of), 193,
204 (_see_ Farming).

Inbreeding, Bakewell and, 214;
the Collings and, 234-5.

Income and expenditure of landed classes (1688), 156.

Incubators, early, 132.

India,
imports from, 324;
wool from, 328.

Ine, laws of, as to fencing, 5.

Inherent ca