478 



A FARMER'S YEAR 



Enlistment of farm hands, evils of, 



75. 76 

 Entailed land, troubles of owners, 50 

 Evans, Sir John, 359 

 Excommunication of a parishioner by 



a clergyman, 237 



Faggot carting, 173, 174 



Fairhead (ploughman), 126, 134, 137, 



141, 145, 149. 252 



Fairhead, junior, 282-3 



Fairhead, Mrs., 250, 252 



Fairy rings, 226 



Farm buildings, dilapidations, 10 



Farm horses and their work, intelli- 

 gence of, 107, 1S5, 221 



Farm labourers, see Agricultural 

 labourers 



Farmer's widow, an unfortunate, 417 



Farmer's year, see under Year 



Farmers : want of co-operative spirit, 

 31 ; gradual disappearance of old 

 farming families, 50, 51 ; anec- 

 dotes of, 52, 53, 56 ; and their 

 labourers, 73 ; dislike of to moles, 

 91 ; and elementary education, 

 203 ; prefer to buy rrachinery 

 from local merchants, 274 ; a 

 reduced farmer's tale, 367 



Farming : economy of large hold- 

 ings, 3, 317 ; financial results of, 

 9, 12, 14, 38-44, 50, 129-31, 

 169-70, 441-5 ; 'off-hand' farm- 

 ing, lo-ii; absence of protective 

 combination among farmers, 31, 

 41; precarious condition of in East- 

 ern Counties, 34, 41, 43, 48, 129- 

 31, 417-8, 445-6, 457; in South 

 Africa, 76-8 ; townpeople's ignor- 

 ance of, 80 ; ceaseless nature of 

 work, 129; effects of Free Trade 

 on, 129-30, 412, 419 



Farms, neglected, 8 ; letting, 3, 9, 12, 

 16 



Farmyards, 10 



Felling undergrowth, 80 



Female farm labourers, 250, 251 



Fence trimming, 41 1 



Fielding, Mr., killed at the battle of 

 Lubwa, 390 



Financial results of farming, see 

 Farming 



Fisher, Mr. Robert K., 459 



Flat-hoeing, process of, 224 



Fleming, Abraham, 27 



Flintoft, a paralytic, death of, 418-9 



Flixton Park, 405 



Floods, effects of, 30, 31, 125, 233 



Flour, price of, 1S2 



' Fly' on plants, 253 



Foals, 126, 134-7, 145, 160, 179, 

 206 ; death of a foal, 302, 305 



Fool's parsley, 306 



Foreign meat, dishonest competition 

 of, 42, 411, 440, 456, 470 



Foreign Powers, hostile combination 

 of : probable effect on our food 

 supply, 179, 3S0 



Forest trees in hedgerows, 173 



Fox, Mr. Hugh, 462 



Free Trade versus Protection : eflect 

 of Free Trade on agriculture, 130, 

 412-9 ; benefits foreign produce 

 only, 131 ; taxation of imports, 

 131, 413, 455 ; influence on price 

 of wheat, 158, 412-9; rights 

 and wrongs of Free Trade, 171 ; a 

 newspaper correspondence, 412-5, 

 419 ; is a bounty on wheat 

 desirable ? 413-5, 4I9, 455 ; a 

 Radical on the bounty system, 419' 



Frog, attacked by a mole, 300 



Fry, Elizabeth, 36S 



Fuel doles, 424-5 



' Fying' ditches and ponds, 11, 80 



Gales, great destruction of trees 

 ^ by, 448-9 

 Gales and high tides on East Coast, 



30, 31, 446 

 Galvanised roofs for stacks, 286-7, 



379 



Game-cock, a divorced, 281-2 



Game-preserving : poaching, 227-8 ; 

 destruction of other animal life a 

 necessity of, 232 



Gamekeepers, attacks on, by poach- 

 ers, 228; enmity of to hawks, 231 



Garton, Messrs., their experiments- 

 with red clovers and grasses, 373 



