CONTENTS xvii 



I'AGB 



Sir William Crookes— Some Statistics of Wheat Areas — Leguminous 

 Crops and Muck versus Niagara and the Zambesi — The Death of Lord 

 Winchilsea — The Heat and the Sun-spot — ^ Produce at Bedingham— A 

 poor Day's Shooting — Drought — The Tricks of the Corn Market — 

 The End of Harvest — Co-operation : is it Practicable? — Bad Stacking 

 — Decay of the Labourers' Skill— A Visit to the Hebrides — Locomo- 

 tion : Past, Present, and Future — Oban to Coll — Landing at Coll — 

 The Swede in Coll — Johnsonian Wit — Farming in Coll — Sportsmen ; 

 and a Story — Bird-Hfe in Coll — Seals— The Untiring Lees — Shooting 

 and Scruples — A Day's Sport in Coll — The Function of Elynnis 

 Arenarius — The Old Castle — The Tomb of the McLeans — The Sea 

 Rovers' Grave — Plover in a Gale — Peat Drains — Success at the 

 Agricultural Show — A Clever Collie^A Snipey Field — Church at 

 Coll - Superiority of Scotch Preachers — Intelligence of their Congre- 

 gations^ — The Lead Mine — The Benhogh Stone — Hangman's Hill — 

 The Bradenham Chains — Crofters and Population — A Desolate Scene 

 — ' Coll for my Money ' — Drought at Upp Hall — The Water Question 

 in Hertfordshire — True Tale of a Doiuser — Large Fields and Steam 

 Ploughs — Good Stacking — Advantages of the London Market — 

 Hertfordshire Rents— Metlujd of Well-Siuking — Manufacture of a 

 Trout Stream — Memories ........ 327 



OCTOBER 



Dilchingham and Drought — State of Crops and Stock — First Thrashings 

 — A Misguided Pheasant — Ploughing in the Drought — The Tale of a 

 Farmer — Earlham Hall and Elizabeth Fry — Tuberculosis and Tuber- 

 culin — Necessity of Dairy Inspection — Pigeons on the Lawn — The 

 Lesson of Decay — Our Fear of the Dark — A Crazy Heifer — The 

 Haired of Hospitals — A Broken Link — Sale of two Red Polls — Messrs. 

 Garton and Darwin — Autumn on the Norfolk Coast — A Well-man- 

 aged Shooting — Tale of a 'Gallery' — Beet Lifting and Haling — 

 Largesse — Fall of Wages — Grand Juries ...... 364 



NOVEMBER 



A Difference of Opinion — The Eternal Round of Nature — Critics on 

 Galvanised Iron — Kohl-rabi versus Swedes — War and the Strength of 

 the Empire — Valuation Day — The Woes of Six Stops — Sudden Fall 

 of Elm Boughs — A Change of Farm Policy — -The Results of Bungay 

 Compost — Autumn Sunlight and Cloud — When the Strength Fails — 

 The Beauty of Large Meadows — Another Way of Beet Lifting — The 

 Clergy as Sportsmen — Loaders — Bean Roots — The Risks of Rabbit- 

 pie — Sale of the Barley— The Battle of Lubwa -An Instance of 



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