xi^ CONTENTS. 



REAPING. page 



Crop dead ripe — Machine — Cutting and Stacking — Game in the 

 Corn — Trifolium Incarnatum— Excellent Crop — Wheat, some 

 cut before it is ripe — Flemish Practice — Wheat-stack — Avoid 

 Risk of Rain — Norfolk Farmer's Mode of Sowing Wheat— Rain 

 on Oats— Barley Ill 



THRASHING. 



Mortimer — Boxted Lodge Feat — Arrival [of Apparatus — Process 

 of Thrashing 117 



HOW WE MADE OUR HAY. 



Meadows shut up in February — How treated — Mowing Machine — 

 Nettles — Thistles — Trial of Machine — Failure— Knife sharpened 

 — Consequent Success — Hay-tedding — Wind-rows — Summer- 

 cocks— Middlesex Plan 124 



DAIRY MANAGEMENT AND PROFITS. 



Dairymaid— Farmer's Wife — Dairy Building — Churning — Recipe 

 for Turnip Flavour of Cream — Profit of a Cow — Stubble Butter 

 — Milking— Fattening Calves — Rearing — Age to breed — Quality 

 of Milk — Calving in May — London Milkmen — Kicking Cows — 

 Buy from poorer Land . . . . . . . .145 



JUDGING. 



Common Principles — Study in the Show-yard — Angle of Shoulder 

 — Flat Foot of the Horse — Action — Cylindrical Shape of Feed- 

 ing Animal— Signs of Quality— Cul ley's Points of a Ram, Bull, 

 Pig — Flat Rib — Springing Rib — George Stevenson — A practised 

 Eye requisite for Judging — Scrap-book — Lines of Beauty — Age 

 of Horse— External Characteristics of the Milch Cow — Youatt — 

 Mr. Stephens— Isle of Wight Farmdr 160 



