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Hindle, 213 



' Hiring shilling,' the, 294 



Hogarth, 177 



Hollow Hill, loS, 15c, 217, 326 



Holly Lodge, 223 



Holmes, Mr. Sancroft, 164, 16S, 

 174, 176, 1S4, 201, 205 



Home Farm, Ditchingham, 16, 17-9 ; 

 acreage, 32, 36 ; proportions of 

 arable and pasture, 37 ; farming 

 operations, 43-453 ; balance-sheet, 

 441 



Hood (bailiff), IS, 47-8, 57, %i, 84, 

 89, 92, 99, 105, loS, 114, 117, 

 123, 125, 143, 145, 146, 149, 169, 

 173, 179, 181, 185, 219, 220, 229, 

 2S3i 256, 266, 272, 277, 285, 294, 

 295. 302, 306, 307, 343, 351, 

 371-2, 378, 382, 394, 395, 416, 

 444 



Hood, Mrs., 98, 124 



Horse-breeding, 126-7 



Horse-sickness in South Africa, 86, 



394 

 Horsebee, its development from the 



egg. 315 



Horses, intelligence of, 85-7, 107, 

 145-6, 185, 221 ; an African 

 horse's adventures, 224-5 5 smooth- 

 barked trees gnawed by, 276 ; 

 poll-sickness, 426 



Horseshoe on tap-root of an oak, 139 



Horton, Mr., 329 



Hours of labour on farms, 72 



' Hoven,' 84 ; see ' Blowing ' 



Huntingfeld, Roger de, 24 ; deed 

 executed by (1295), 24-5 ; seal of, 

 25-6 



Hurdles, So, 142 



Iceland, beauty of turf in, 211 ; 

 excavations on the site of Bergs- 

 thorsknoll, 211 ; midnight fishing : 

 a memory, 362 



Iconoclasts of the seventeenth cen- 

 tury, 257-8 



Indian Civil Service: system of 

 forced contributions towards pen- 

 sions, 70 



Indian corn, see Maize 



Inoculation of pastures, 62 



Instinct in animals, 84-7, 92, 93, 95 



107, 145-6 

 Insurance, 42, 68-9 

 Ives, Charlotte (afterwards wife of 



Admiral Sutton), anecdotes of, 



29-30 

 Ives, Rev. Mr. and Mrs., and 



Chateaubriand, 2S-9 



Jackson, Mr. F. J., wounded at the 

 battle of Lubwa, 389-92 ; his herd 

 of cattle destroyed by rinderpest, 



393 

 Jeaftreson, Mr. John Cordy, 150 

 Jenner, Dr., 280 

 John, King of England, 5 

 Johnson, Dr., 339, 340, 342, 351, 



353-4, 358 



Kensit, Mr., 269 



Kessingland, washing away of clilTs 



at, 30-31 ; farming at, 204-6 ; 



increase of beach at, 447 

 Kicking-strap, danger of not using, 



247 

 King, John, account (1738) of a 



mineral spring and bath-house in 



the Vineyard Hills, 20-22 

 King's Head hotel, Bungay, sales of 



by auction, no, in, lij, 229 

 Knee-caps, 265 

 Kohl-rabi, 60, 225, 253, 264, 273, 



365, 379 



Labour, scarcity of, 421-2, 459-69 



Labourers, see Agricultural labourers 



Lamb-hurdle, 142 



Lambs, fall of, 56-7, 89, 95, 96, 

 125-6 ; apparent indifference of to 

 cold, 102 ; attacked by dogs, 

 142-3, 152; a wandering slag in 

 the fold, 143-4 ; tail-cutting and 

 its results, 146-8, 149-50, 151, 

 156, 173; prices, 207, 229, 402; 

 weaning, 263 



Land, clearing, 12 



' Land -sucking,' 33 



