GENERAL VIEW
OF THE
AGRICULTURE
OF
THE ISLE OF MAN.

WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE
MEANS OF ITS IMPROVEMENT,

DRAWN UP FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF
THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE
AND INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT.

BY THOMAS QUAYLE, ESQ.

LONDON:
PRINTED BY W.BULMER AND CO.CLEVELAND-ROW,
ST.JAMES;

SOLD BY G. AND W. NICOL, BOOKSELLERS TO HIS MAJESTY, PALL-MALL; AND SHERWOOD, NEELY, AND JONES, PATERNOSTER-ROW.
1812.

Price 7s. 6d. board.

CONTENTS.

CHAP. I. GEOGRAPHICAL STATE AND CIRCUMSTANCES.
SECT	1. Situation and Extent	1
	2. Divisions	2
	3. Climate	2
	4. Coast, Soil, and Surface	3
	5. Minerals and Quarries	9
	6. Streams and Springs	14
	CHAP. II. STATE OF PROPERTY.
SECT	1. Estates,and their Management	15
	2. Tenures	16
	CHAP. III. BUILDINGS.
SECT.	1. Houses of Proprietors	19
	2. Farm Houses and Offices .	20
	3. Repair	21
	4. Prices of Building. Materials, and Artizan's Labour	21
	5. Cottages	22
	6. Bridges	24
	CHAP IV. MODE OF OCCUPATION.
SECT	1. Size of Farms	25
	2. Rent .	25
	3. Tithe	26
	4. Poor Rates	30
	5. Leases	31
	6. Expenses & Profit	35
	CHAP. V. IMPLEMENTS.
SECT	1.. Ploughs	36
	2. Harrows	37
	3. Rollers	37
	4. Drills	37
	5. Horse-hoes	38
	6. Threshing-Mills	38
	7. Chaff-cutters	39
	8. Waggons	39
	9. Carts	40
	10. Draining Mills, &c	40
	11. Hoes, Spades, &c.	41
	CHAP. VI ENCLOSING.
SECT.	1. Wastes and Commons	43
	2. Fences	45
	3. Gates .	51
	CHAP. VII. ARABLE LAND.
SECT.	1. Tillage	52
	2. Fallowing	53
	3. Course of Crops	54
	4. Wheat	55
	5. Rye	60
	6. Barley	60
	7. Oats	62
	8. Peas	63
	9. Beans	63
	10. Tares	64
	11. Lentils	65
	12. Turnips	65
	13. Cole Seed	67
	14. Cabbages	67
	15. Swedish Turnips	58
	16. Khol-rabie, &c.	68
	17. Potatoes	69
	18. Clover	73
	19. Trefoil	74
	20. Ray Grass	74
	21. Sanfoin, &c	75
	22. Hemp and Flax	76
	23. Liquorice, &c. .	78
	CHAP. VIII. GRASS-LAND.
SECT.	1. Meadows	79
	2. Pastures	80
	CHAP. IX. GARDENS AND ORCHARDS	82
	CHAP. X. WOODS AND PLANTATIONS	83
	CHAP. XI. WASTES.
SECT.	1. Mountain	87
	2. Marshes	89
	CHAP. XII. IMPROVEMENTS.
SECT.	1. Draining .	90
	2. Paring and Burning	91
	3. Manuring	93
	4. Irrigation	103
	CHAP. XIII. EMBANKMENTS	105
	CHAP. XIV. LIVE-STOCK.
SECT.	1. Cattle	106
	2. Sheep	111
	3. Horses	116
	4. Asses	118
	5. Hogs	118
	6. Rabbits	119
	7. Poultry	120
	8. Pigeons	120
	9. Bees	121
	CHAP. XV. RURAL ECONOMY.
SECT.	1. Labour	125
	CHAP. XVI. POLITICAL ECONOMY.
SECT.	1. Roads	131
	2. Fairs	137
	3. Markets	138
	4. Coins, Weights, and Measures	138
	5. Manufactures	140
	6. Commerce	142
	7. The Poor	149
	CHAP. XVII. OBSTACLES TO IMPROVEMENT.
SECT.	1. General Obstacles	156
	2. Enemies .	161
	CHAP. XVIII.
SECT.	1. Agricultural Societies	162
	2. Language	165
	CONCLUSION. MEANS OF IMPROVEMENT	167

APPENDIX.

A. No. I.	Estimated annual Value of the impropriateed Tithes in the Isle of Man	172
A. No. II	Extract from Rymer's Foedera, vol. I. P 342	173
B. No. I.	An Account of the different Species of Corn and Grain, Meal and Flour, imported into, and exported from the Isle of Man fom 1781 to 1790	174
B. No. II.	An Account of all Corn and Grain, Meal, and Flour, imported into and exported from the Is,eof Man from 1791 to 1811	176
C.	An Account of Coals imported into the Isle of Man for Thirty Years	178
D.No. I.	An Account of Linens exported from the Isle of Man to Great Britain for the Bounty, from 1781 to 1809 .	179
D. No. II.	An Account of Linen Cloth exported from the Isle of Man from 1791 to 1811 .	180
E. No. I.	An Account of the Number of Boats belonging to the Isle of Man from 1781 to 1790	181
E. No. II.	An Account of the Number of Herring Boats belonging to the Isle of Man, as annually returned by the Coroners,from 1799 to 1811	182
F. No. I.	An Account of Bestials exported from the Isle of Man from 1782 to 1790 .	183
F. No. II.	An Account of all Bestials exported from the Isle of Man from 1791 to 1811	184
F. No. III.	An Account of Bestials imported into the Isle of Man from 1807 to 1811	184
G.	An Account of the gross Revernue of the Isle of Man, received by the Officers of the Crown since the Cessation of the proprietary Government .	185
H. No. 1.	Account of the Number of Souls in the Isle of Man in the Year 1726	186
H. No. II.	Number of Inhabitants of the Isle of Man in 1757	187
H. No. III.	Number of Inhabitants in 1784	188
H. No. IV.	State of the Population in 1792 .	189
H. No. V.	Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials in each Church and Chapel from 1800 to 1809 .	190
H. No.VI.	Number of inhabited Houses in 1811	191
I.	Premiums adjudged for the Year 1811, by the Manks Agricultural Society	192




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GENERAL VIEW OF THE AGRICULTURE OF THE ISLE OF MAN. WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE MEANS OF ITS IMPROVEMENT,

CONTENTS.

APPENDIX.

GENERAL VIEW
OF THE
AGRICULTURE
OF
THE ISLE OF MAN.

WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE
MEANS OF ITS IMPROVEMENT,