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Stoiiuy Sunsel — Hay Heating on the Stack — Committee on Old Age 

 Pensions— The Benefices Bill— Ulsters in July— Scene on the Back 

 Lawn— Feeding Cattle in 1557 — Two Views of a Crop —St. Swithun's 

 Day— American Reapers — The Cattle and the Young Willows^The 

 Docks on the Marsh— Sparrows in the Wheat— Cutting out Swedes — 

 Magistrates and Conscientious Objectors — An Object Lesson — The 

 Divorced Game-cock — The Advantages of Baby Beef — The Process 

 of Thatching — Splitting of Soil by Beet Bulbs —Destruction of Beet 

 by the Horse Hoe— Buying a Reaper — Proposed Agreements for 

 Harvest — Boarding out of London Children— A Rise of Swallows — 

 Galvanised Roofs for Stacks — The Bedingham Hay Crop — Underbred 

 Cattle —Rain at Last — Drilling Maize and Mustard^The Swallows 

 and their Egg — An Ancient Farm -An Old-fashioned Couple . . 255 



AUGUST 



A Primrose League Fete— Sale of Red Poll Heifers — Red-weed and 

 Rabbits— Hare and Rabbits Bill — Price of Fat Stock at Harleston — 

 The Harvest Bargain — Martha, Jane, and Babette — Fight Between 

 Threshers and a Whale — The Natural Law— Some Examples — A Wet 

 Day — The Dead Foal — An African Snow Scene — The Work of Messrs. 

 Carton — Agricultural Distress as a Subject for Jest— Cause of Death of 

 Foal — Fool's Parsley — The New Ewes — The Beginning of Harvest — 

 The Reaper at Work — Offers for Bedingham — Layer in Barley — Lady 

 Farmers of the Old Sort — Cost of Repairs — A Tree Tragedy — 

 Summer Fallowing and ' Maffies ' — Barley Mowing — A Confusion of 

 Terms — A Hawking Owl — A Rabbit Hunt — Result of Over-manur- 

 ing Wheat — Mysterious Successes in Agriculture— Carting Pease — 

 Horse-bees at Work — Charges for Chemical Analysis— The Humming 

 of Gnats — A Summer Frost —A Large Farm — The Thunder-blasted 

 Tree Effects of Pressure on a Mast— Experiences of Lightning at 

 Home and Abroad — Chicory and Thistle Down Stacking Damp 

 Oalsand Wheat — An Ancient Brick — The Past and the People The 

 Instinct of Perpetuation Old Methods of Cottage Building— Matted 

 Corn — The Rising of the Harvest Moon ...... 292 



SEPTEMBER 



Bungay Brewster Sessions — Decrease of Crime — Great Bulk of the 

 Crops — First Day's Shooting — The Heaven-sent Bicycle — Forbidding 

 Aspect of Ripe Beans — Messrs. Horton and Sime — The Mettingham 

 Skeleton — Seventeenth Century Joke — -The Abundance of Straw — 

 The Great Heat — Failure of the Reaper in Barley — The Jeremiad of 



