486 



A FARMER'S YEAR 



Swedes, 82, 149, 206, 212-3, 253, 

 255, 286, 336, 358; cutting out, 

 278 ; lifting and haling, 421 ; 

 uncertainty of crops, 452 



Swifts, 239 



Taia, Egyptian queen, bust of, pur- 

 chased from a pedlar, 239 ; golden 

 ring of, 239 



Taxation on land, 41, 42 



Tenant farmers: repairs, 11 ; laying 

 down pastures.. 16, 17 ; an instance 

 of superhuman virtue, 52 ; a 

 seventy-seven years' tenancy, 53 ; 

 farming with insufficient capital, 

 149; in the year 1560, 290, 291 ; 

 good and bad, 310-12; the 

 modern tenant, 446 



Thatching comb, 2S3 



Thatching haystacks, description of 

 process, 282-4 



Thistles, 214, 216, 225, 293 



Thorn scrub, rapid spread of, 62 



Thrashing, 102, 163, 366, 376, 378 



Threshers and whale, fight between, 

 299, 300 



Thrushes, 235 



Thruston, Major, murdered by 

 Soudanese mutineers, 392 



'Thwarting,' 95 



Tides, phenomenal, 30-31 



'Tied houses,' 71; evils of the 

 system, 110-13; quality of beer 

 sold at, no. Ill, 113; suggested 

 remedy for the evil, 112 



Tile-draining, 66, 79 



Timber-gilling, 185, 187, 201 



Timber : steam sawing, 213-4, 221, 

 234, 238; effects of excessive strain 

 on, 318; prohibitory charge for 

 railway carriage, 41 1 



* Times,' the, on the margarine trade, 

 184 ; agricultural summary in, 446 



Tindale Wood, 38, 46, 238, 385, 

 433> 436 



Tithes, diminisliing value of, 9, 454 



Toads, a tame trio, 295-9 '■> their food 

 and method of feeding, 296-8 ; 

 length of life, 298 



Toadstools, 226 



Tobacco, reduction of duty on, 1 68-9 

 Tramps : the granite breaking lest, 



431 ; a ' master rogue,' 431 

 Transvaal, adventure with a cobra-, 



180 ; ostrich farming in the, 39S, 



399 



Trees : cutting, 119-22 ; growth of, 

 I2I-2 ; treatment of, 122 ; felling, 

 137-41 ; growing from old slumps, 

 141 ; ravages of animals among 

 saplings, 275-6, 294 ; ruined by 

 tenants, 311-2 ; shedding of 

 boughs by elms, 382 ; destroyed by 

 gales, 448-9 



Trout stream, making a, 362 



Tuberculosis in cows : the tuberculin 

 test, 369 ; need of Government 

 inspectors, 369 



' Tulip,' a Natal herb fatal to cattle, 



«7 

 Turk Taylor, 429, 430 

 Turkeys, cruelty of to other fowl, 



115; an egg-eating hen, 1S3 ; a 



courtship scene, 187 

 Turnips, 206, 240, 284, 289, 306, 



307 ; the crop at Bedingham, 380 

 Tusser, Thomas, quoted, I, 143, 



272, 290-91, 444 

 Twitch-grass, diliiculty of eradicating, 



133. 155-6, 240 



Udkuai.ks, the, 5 ; Sir Jolm de 

 Udedale, 6 



Unexhausted improvements, com- 

 pensation for, 34 



University Missions to Central Africa, 

 270 



Upland Hall, 19 



Upp Hall, Hertfordshire, 358 ; a 

 water famine, 358 ; system of 

 farming, 360 ; method of deepening 

 wells, 361 ; converting a coarse- 

 fish river into a trout stream, 

 362 



Upper Engadine, school attendance 

 in the, 204 



Vaccination, instances of its efficacy 

 I in South America, 281 



