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Canvassing Politics of the Labourer Heat or Pheasants Courtship 

 among Turkeys The Last of the Irish Cattle A Bad Balance Sheet 

 The Low Price of Butter The Foreign Article A Margarine 

 Factory Home-grown Hams An Election Tale Snake Bite in 

 Norfolk Gathering Orchids at Bedingham The Vitality of Seed 

 Political Meetings School Board Cases Sir J. Gorst on Education 

 Laying down Grass at Kessingland The Result of the Election 

 Backwardness of the Season The End of Newborn Pride Benacre 

 Broad The Habits of Peewits The Closing of the Broads May 

 sayings . . . . . . >?8 



JUNE 



Grass in Iceland Njal's Hall at Bergsthorsknoll Backwardness of the 

 Season Crops and Stock at Bedingham A June Frost Preparing 

 to Steam-saw -Sheep-shearing The Humour of Shearers Weight 

 of Fleeces - Lights and Colours Bees in the Beans The Ways of 

 Swallows Weeds and Carrots The Decay of Bungay Market Low 

 Price of Wool Striking a Bargain Lucky Pigs A Use for Oak 

 Butts Steam-sawing Spoke Setting Curlew on the Common 

 Farming with the Hoe Flat Hoeing - Cracked Shoulder-blades 

 A Tale of the Zulu War Fairy Rings Adventure with the Porch 

 Swallows Egg-Stealing Resale of the King's Head Hotel -Price 

 of Lambs -The Uses of the Dock About Hawks The Work of the 

 late Mrs. Scudamore The Keeper and the Owl Moorhens and their 

 Young The Cold and the Swallows -Sheep Dipping Life on the 

 Lawn- The Refusal of Christian Burial Cutting the Layer Hen 

 and Ducklings Swifts on the Bath Hills Dragging Twitchgrass 

 Curiosities of the Bedingham Registers Dan and Sheep Murder A 

 Solemn Sky Naturalism Wanted, a Kicking-strap Allotment 

 Crops Price of Garden Stuff Good Blood versus Bad Docks on 

 the Marshes Hoeing under Difficulties Drying Wet Hay The 

 Blooming of Wheat The First Breath of Summer Female Labour 

 Transplanting Mangold Machine- mowing Laid Grass Barleys at 

 Bedingham The Fly Flowers and Birds in Websdill Wood . .211 



JULY 



The Season Up to Date The Shed at Baker's Woodton Hall and 

 Church The Infamous Dowsing- Forgotten Brides Epitaphs 

 Wealth of the Georgian Era The Hay on Nos. 5 and n- -Effect of 

 Sheeping Pastures - Treading of Land by Sheep Weaning Lambs 

 Haysel at Bedingham Kohl-rabi and Pigeons A Wicked Pony A 



