A FARMER'S YEAR 



Enlistment of farm hands, evils of, 



75. 76 



Entailed land, troubles of owners, 50 

 Evans, Sir John, 359 

 Excommunication of a parishioner by 



a clergyman, 237 



Faggot carting, 173, 174 



Fairhead (ploughman), 126, 134, 137, 

 141, 145, 149, 252 



Fairhead, junior, 282-3 



Fairhead, Mrs., 250, 252 



Fairy rings, 226 



Farm buildings, dilapidations, IO 



Farm horses and their work, intelli- 

 gence of, 107, 185, 221 



Farm labourers, see Agricultural 

 labourers 



Farmer's widow, an unfortunate, 417 



Farmer's year, see under Year 



Farmers : want of co-operative spirit, 

 31 ; gradual disappearance of old 

 farming families, 50, 51 ; anec- 

 dotes of, 52, 53, 56 ; and their 

 labourers, 73 ; dislike of to moles, 

 91 ; and elementary education, 

 203 ; prefer to buy machinery 

 from local merchants, 274 ; a 

 reduced farmer's tale, 367 



Farming : economy of large hold- 

 ings, 3, 317; financial results of, 

 9, 12, 14, 38-44, 50, 129-31, 

 169-70, 441-5; 'off-hand' farm- 

 ing, 10-1 1 ; absence of protective 

 combination among farmers, 31, 

 41; precarious condition of in East- 

 ern Counties, 34, 41, 43, 48, 129- 

 31, 417-8, 445-6, 457; in South 

 Africa, 76-8 ; townpeople's ignor- 

 ance of, 80 ; ceaseless nature of 

 work, 129; effects of Free Trade 

 on, 129-30, 412, 419 



Farms, neglected, 8 ; letting, 3, 9, 12, 

 16 



Farmyards, IO 



Felling undergrowth, 80 



Female farm labourers, 250, 251 



Fence trimming, 411 



Fielding, Mr., killed at the battle of 

 Lubwa, 390 



Financial results of farming, see 

 Farming 



Fisher, Mr. Robert K., 459 



Flat-hoeing, process of, 224 



Fleming, Abraham, 27 



Flintoff, a paralytic, death of, 418-9 



Flixton Park, 405 



Floods, effects of, 30, 31, 125, 233 



Flour, price of, 182 



' Fly ' on plants, 253 



Foals, 126, 134-7, I4S 160. 179, 

 206 ; death of a foal, 302, 305 



Fool's parsley, 306 



Foreign meat, dishonest competition 

 of, 42, 411, 440, 456, 470 



Foreign Powers, hostile combination 

 of : probable effect on our food 

 supply, 179, 380 



Forest trees in hedgerows, 1 73 



Fox, Mr. Hugh, 462 



Free Trade versus Protection : effect 

 of Free Trade on agriculture, 130, 

 412-9 ; benefits foreign produce 

 only, 131 ; taxation of imports, 

 131, 413, 455; influence on price 

 of wheat, 158, 412-9; rights 

 and wrongs of Free Trade, 171 ; a 

 newspaper correspondence, 412-5, 

 419 ; is a bounty on wheat 

 desirable ? 413-5, 419, 455 ; a 

 Radical on the bounty system, 419 



Frog, attacked by a mole, 300 



Fry, Elizabeth, 368 



Fuel doles, 424-5 



' Fying' ditches and ponds, II, 80 



GALES, great destruction of trees 



by, 448-9 

 Gales and high tides on East Coast, 



30, 31, 446 

 Galvanised roofs for stacks, 286-7, 



379 



Game-cock, a divorced, 281-2 



Game-preserving : poaching, 227-8 ; 

 destruction of other animal life a 

 necessity of, 232 



Gamekeepers, attacks on, by poach- 

 ers, 228; enmity of to hawks, 231 



Garton, Messrs., their experiments 

 with red clovers and grasses, 373 



