CONTENTS 



IJEDINGHAM, DITCHINGHAM AND THE FARMS 



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The Education of Nature — The small Scale — My Acreage— The Moat 

 Farm — Derivation of Bedingham — The Procession of the Past — The 

 Lords of Bedingham — Bruce's buried Heart — Margery's Love Letter — 

 The Priory — The Charm of Age — Heavy Land — The Fall in Farm 

 Values — Websdill Wood— Map of Moat Farm— The New Pastures — 

 Tenants and 'Laying Down' — Ditchingham — Shells in the Sand — 

 Outney Common — Views — The Vine in England — The Essay of 

 Apothecary King— The Bath Spring — Bungay — Sir Hugh Bigod — 

 The Deed of Roger de Huntingfeld — Copper-bottoming and the 

 Black Dog of Bungay —A Wild Bird Preserve — Ditchingham Lodge — 

 Mr. Ives and the Duke— Miss Ives and the Viscount — The Sons and 

 the Tutor— Floods and High Tides — Lack of the Co-operative Spirit 

 — Farms and Stock at Ditchingham — Condition of Land in 1889 

 — Land-sucking and the Land-sucker — Valuations — All Hallows — 

 The Glebe — Baker's — Tindale Wood— Map and Details — Capital and 

 Profit and Loss Accounts -Governments and the Farming Interests — 

 Borrowed Capital — Advice to Investors — The Silver Lining . , I 



JANUARY 



A Mad Hare — Christmas Weather — Ploughshares — Bungay Compost — 

 First Calves of Heifers — Dyke-cleaning — An Early Lane — Bankrupt 

 Families — A Rent Audit — An Ancient Bridle — Storage of Beet — 

 First Lambs — Southdowns and Suffoll^s Strange Behaviour of Cows 

 — Red Poll Cattle — Ditching Fences — Young Pastures — A Poor Crop 

 — Ploughing of Barley Lands— The Bedingham Steer — Showing 

 Cattle— ^Bush Draining —The Lot of the Agricultural Labourer— Old 

 Age Pensions — Migration of the Labourer — Going for a Soldier . 45 



FEBRUARY 



The Wind in the Pines — Candlemas Day — Sheep and Heat — The 

 Influence of Frost — ^First Snow — Thrashing, Old and New — Rooks 



