CONTENTS XV 



Canvassing Politics of the Labourer — Heat or Pheasants — Courtship 

 among Turkeys -The Last of the Irish Cattle— A Bad Balance Sheet 

 —The Low Price of Butter— The Foreign Article— A Margarine 

 Factory — Home-grown Hams— An Election Tale — Snake Bite in 

 Norfolk— Gathering Orchids at Bedingham— The Vitality of Seed- 

 Political Meetings — School Board Cases — Sir J. Gorst on Education — 

 Laying down Grass at Kessingland — The Result of the Election — 

 Backwardness of the Season— The End of Newborn Pride— Benacre 

 Broad— The Habits of Peewits -The Closing of the Broads— May 

 sayings ............ 



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JUNE 



Grass in Iceland— Njal's Hall at BergsihorsknoU — Backwardness of the 

 Season— Crops and Stock at Bedingham— A June Frost — Preparing 

 to Steam-saw -Sheep-shearing — The Humour of Shearers — Weight 

 of Fleeces - Lights and Colours — Bees in the Beans — The Ways of 

 Swallows — Weeds and Carrots — The Decay of Bungay Market —Low 

 Price of Wool— Striking a Bargain— Lucky Pigs — A Use for Oak 

 Butts— Steam-sawing — Spoke Setting— Curlew on the Common — 

 Farming with the Hoe - Flat Hoeing - Cracked Shoulder-blades^ 

 A Tale of the Zulu War — Fairy Rings — Adventure with the Porch 

 Swallows — Egg-Stealing — Resale of the ICing's Head Hotel— Price 

 of Lambs— The Uses of the Dock —About Hawks— The Work of the 

 late Mrs. Scudamore — The Keeper and the Owl — Moorhens and their 

 Young —The Cold and the Swallows — Sheep Dipping — Life on the 

 Lawn— The Refusal of Christian Burial — Cutting the Layer— Hen 

 and Ducklings — Swills on the Bath Hills — Dragging Twitchgrass — 

 Curiosities of the Bedingham Registers — Dan and Sheep Murder— A 

 Solemn Sky — Naturalism — Wanted, a Kicking-strap — Allotment 

 Crops— Price of Garden Stuff — Good Blood versus Bad — Docks on 

 the Marshes — Hoeing under Difficulties — Drying Wet Hay — The 

 Blooming of Wheat— The First Breath of Summer — Female Labour 

 — Transplanting Mangold - Machine-mowing Laid Grass — Barleys at 

 Bedingham— The Fly — Flowers and Birds in Websdill Wood . 



JULY 



The Season Up to Date — The Shed at Baker's — Woodton Hall and 

 Church — The Infamous Dowsing- Forgotten Brides — Epitaphs — 

 Wealth of the Georgian Era — The Hay on Nos. 5 and 11 — Effect of 

 Sheeping Pastures- Treading of Land by Sheep —Weaning Lambs — 

 Haysel at Bedingham — Kohl-rabi and Pigeons — A Wicked Pony— A 



