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and Mawkins Sale of the Sick Ox The Art of Ploughing Intelli- 

 gence of Farm Horses Autopsy of the Sick Ox The Crying Evil of 

 the Tied House Monopoly The Power of the Brewers Purchase of 

 Bungay Castle by the Duke of Norfolk Miss Peggotty's Misfortune 

 The Turkey and the Cock The Terrier and the Hen A Peaceful 

 Scene Rate of Wages Sale of Bullocks County Council Election 

 Parish Councils a Failure Drilling Barley Marking of Trees 

 Growth and Management of Timber . . . . . . 100 



MARCH 

 Winter at Last The Fall of Lambs Brushing Pasture . . .124 



APRIL 



The Fruits of Free Trade A Question A Missed Baulk Soil for 

 Carrots The Back Lawn The Effect of Weather on Temperament 

 A ' Cast ' Mare Pond Water for Drinking The Water Question in 

 Villages A Suggested Solution Rolling Heavy Land Felling 

 Trees Rooting A Stub-oak Air-roots on Trees Refreshing a 

 Pasture Lamb Murder An Easter Vestry Meeting The Mare 

 and the Horseman The Bull and the Bailiff Tail-cutting Beet- 

 drilling -The First Swallow Undermanned Farms The Sick 

 Lambs What happened before Root- culture Nightingales on 

 Hollow Hill Total Loss of Lambs Interviewing a Lunatic at 

 Church Missionary Bazaar Superstition Local Race Meetings 

 Horse-hoeing Beans Shifting the Sheep A Short Notice Rise in 

 the Price of Wheat Service at Bedingham Church The First 

 Orchis Estate Repairs Increase of Birds on Bath Hills A Kicking 

 Cow The Coming of the Leaf Mice in Stacks Election Excite- 

 mentsThe Labourer's Prejudices- Money a Defence The Corrup- 

 tion of County Constituencies The Worship of Mammon The Re- 

 duction in the Tobacco Duty The Grievances of the Clergy Wheat 

 at 485. the Quarter - A Bounty on Wheat The Reign of King Stork 

 Prices of Grain in 1800 Destruction of Young Trees by Boys 

 Hedgerow Timber Sensibility to Pain of Men and Animals The 

 Humours of an Election Meeting Fact versus Fiction . . .128 



MAY 



May- Day Stones on Sandy Soil Wheat at Forty-nine Shillings a 

 Quarter The Price of Corn and War Snakes on the Bath Hills 

 The Hare and the Cobra Rough Jimmy An Egg-eating Turkey 

 The Margarine Deputation The Gilling of Timber The Pleasures of 



