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Physical Endurance The Triumph of Reason -The End of the 

 Battle African Rinderpest Dividing the Spoils Death of the South- 

 down Ram A Visit to the Agricultural Show Rearing of Prize 

 Cattle Fat Pigs An Etruscan Winner Queensland and Emigration 

 Prize Chrysanthemums The Poultry Show If only ! A Prophetic 

 Passage A Surgical Feat Wild Ostriches The Beet on Baker's - 

 Carrots and Carrot Lifting The Last of the Green Maize The Uses 

 of Road-grit Sale of the Lambs The Criminal Evidence Act 

 Mustard and the Sheep The Cunning of Dogs The End of Dan 

 A Result of Bad Stacking A Self- planted Covert Purchase of Steers 

 The Ways of Moles -A Story 378 



DECEMBER 



An Agricultural Debate The Lack of Labourers Mr. Bagenal's Report 

 Exodus from the Land a National Question Cattle at Norwich 

 Market Brutality of Drovers The Cost of Carriage Its Gravity 

 Warmth of the Season The Harleston Auction A Controversy 

 Prices at Harleston The Dead of Winter Ruin The Patience of 

 the Afflicted - An ' Old Radical 'Nightfall The Charm of Beding- 

 ham -The Lack of Bushes A Critic Criticised Raspberries in 

 December The Swede Crop A Plethora of Bailiffs Large Ideas-- 

 Begging Letters Impostors A Curious Case Queen's Nurses - Fuel 

 Doles Heckingham Workhouse Outdoor Relief versus the House 

 The Tale of Turk Taylor A Master Rogue A Fortified Workhouse 

 Parish Homes and Unions -An Ae'riel Fire A Discreet Defendant 

 At the End of the Fell The Woodcock's Note Ware 'Cock- 

 Shooting as a Sport The Shortest Day The First Frost An En- 

 thusiastThe Pheasant and the Cat The last of Royal Duke The 

 Labourer and the Land Chilled Mutton Balance Sheets A Profit 

 How to Succeed Jeremiah considered by a Minor Prophet -The 

 Lowest on Record Roses in December Kessingland and the Ocean 

 The Great March Gale A Nelson Relic Lady Hamilton and her 

 Critic The Nelson Club Pewits and Sunlight -The Smell of the Soil 

 Kohl-rabi and Swedes A Desolate Scene The Dignity and Doom 

 of Labour The Last Sunrise Tithe and the Parsons The Con- 

 clusion of the Matter . 407 



APPENDIX 



I. THE RURAL EXODUS 459 



II. EFFECT OF FOREIGN COMPETITION ON THE BRITISH PRODUCER 470 



INDEX 473 



