xiv A FARMER'S YEAR 



PAGB 



and Mawkins — Sale of the Sick Ox— The Art of Ploughing— Intelli- 

 gence of Farm Horses — Autopsy of the Sick Ox — The Crying Evil of 

 the Tied House Monopoly — The Power of the Brewers— Purchase of 

 Bungay Castle by the Duke of Norfolk —Miss Peggotty's Misfortune 

 — The Turkey and the Cock — The Terrier and the Hen— A Peaceful 

 Scene — Rate of Wages -Sale of Bullocks— County Council Election 

 — Parish Councils a Failure — Drilling Barley — Marking of Trees — 

 Growth and Management of Timber ...... lOO 



MARCH 

 Winter at Last— The Fall of Lambs — Brushing Pasture . * . 124 



APRIL 



The Fruits of Free Trade — A Question — A Missed Baulk — Soil for 

 Carrots — The Back Lawn — The Effect of Weather on Temperament 

 A 'Cast' Mare— Pond Water for Drinking — The Water Question in 

 Villages — A Suggested Solution — Rolling Heavy I>and — Felling 

 Trees — Rooting — A Stub-oak — Air-roots on Trees Refreshing a 

 Pasture — Lamb Murder — An Easter Vestry Meeting -The Mare 

 and the Horseman— The Bull and the Bailiff — Tail-cutting— Beet- 

 drilling— The First Swallow — Undermanned Farms— The Sick 

 Lambs — What happened before Root- culture— Nightingales on 

 Hollow Hill— Total Loss of Lambs— Interviewing a Lunatic at 

 Cl-.urch — Missionary Bazaar — Superstition — Local Race Meetings — 

 Horse-hoeing Beans —Shifting the Sheep — A Short Notice - Rise in 

 the Price of Wheat — Service at Bedingham Church — The First 

 Orchis— Estate Repairs — Increase of Birds on Bath Hills — A Kicking 

 Cow -The Coming of the Leaf— Mice in Stacks— Election Excite- 

 ments—The Labourer's Prejudices- Money a Defence — The Corrup- 

 tion of County Constituencies — The Worship of Mammon— The Re- 

 duction in the Tobacco Duty — The Grievances of the Clergy — Wheat 

 at 48.f. the Quarter -A Bounty on Wheat— The Reign of King Stork — 

 Prices of Grain in 1800 — Destruction of Young Trees by Boys — 

 Hedgerow Timber — Sensibility to Pain of Men and Animals— The 

 Humours of an Election Meeting -Fact werjMj Fiction . . . 12a 



MAY 



May-Day— Stones on Sandy Soil — Wheat at Forty-nine Shillings a 

 Quarter — The Price of Corn and War— Snakes on the Bath Hills — 

 The Hare and the Cobra — Rough Jimmy — An Egg-eating Turkey— 

 The Margarine Deputation — The Gilling of Timber — The Pleasures of 



