A FARMER'S YEAR 



BEING 



HIS COMMONPLACE BOOK FOR 1898 



BY 



H. RIDER HAGGARD 



Who minds to quote 

 Upon this note 



May easily find enough : 

 What charge and pain, 

 To little gain, 



Doth follow toiling plough. 



Yet farmer may 

 Thank God and say, 



For yearly such good hap, 

 ' Well fare the plough 

 That sends enough 



To stop so many a gap ' ' ' 



THOMAS TUSSER, 1558 



WITH 2 MAPS AND 36 ILLUSTRATIONS 

 BY G. LEON LITTLE 



NEW IMPRESSION (1899) 

 RE-ISSUE 



LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 



39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON 

 NEW YORK AND BOMBAY 



1906 

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