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Local Authorities Remiss in acting upon Powers for Allotments 

 and Small Holdings- First Allotments Act " Three Acres and a 

 Cow " Mr. Jesse Collings's Allotment Act Mr. Henry Chaplin's 

 Small Holdings Act Result of Act Small Holdings and Allot- 

 ments Act, 1907 . ... . . . . . . xlii 



GARDENING Co-operative with Farming in Roman, Saxon and Nor- 

 man times Fostered by Ecclesiastics First English Author on, 

 wrote at St. Albans Rapid Progress in Nineteenth Century . xliv 



DEDUCTIONS Success of Cultures Regulation by Government . xlvi 



PART I 

 GENERAL HABITS 



CHAPTER I 

 WILD ANIMALS 



Section i. Insectivorous and Harmless: 



Cheiroptera or Bats Shrew-mouse Water-shrew Oared Shrew 

 Rustic Shrew ......... i 



Section 2. Partly Useful and Partly Injurious : 



Badger Hedgehog Mole Weasel ...... 5 



Section 3. Destructive. 



Fox Marten Pine Marten Polecat Stoat Otter Brown Rat 

 House Mouse Long-tailed Field Mouse Harvest Mouse 

 Water Vole Field Vole Red Field Vole Dormouse Squirrel . 10 



CHAPTER II 



WILD BIRDS 



RESIDENT 



Section i. Insectivorous and Harmless : 



Kestrel Barn Owl Common Creeper Common Wren Golden- 

 crested Wren Long-tailed Titmouse Cole Titmouse Marsh Tit- 

 mouse Crested Titmouse Hedge Sparrow Goldfinch Spotted 

 Woodpecker Lesser Woodpecker Green Woodpecker Lapwing 



