4 8 4 



A FARMER'S YEAR 



RABBIT-PIE, illness caused by, 388 



Rabbit-shooting, 385-7 



Rabbits, damage done by, 293, 388, 



401 ; hunted by a stoat, 301 : a 



harvest hunt, 314 

 Railway charges : preferential rates 



on foreign products, 41-2, 411 ; 



prohibitory charges for carriage to 



home growers, 410, 411 

 Rams, difficulty of keeping with small 



flocks, 96-7 ; Southdown, 123 

 Rates and taxes on land, 41 

 Read, Mr. Clare Sewell, 62, 445, 



468 

 Reaping machine, American, 273^4; 



rent for hire of, 285 ; purchase of, 



294-5 ; labour saved by, 307-8 ; 



failure of in beaten down barley, 



332 

 Red poll cattle, see Norfolk red 



polls 



' Red Poll Herd Book,' 59, 60 

 Red weed (poppies), 63, 132, 293, 



37 



Reeve (woodman), 137 



Rent audit, a, 49 ; the dinner, 53-6 



Rents, 3, 35, 37, 40, 41, 42 



Repairs, cost of, 161, 310 



Rew, Mr. Henry, 333, 461 



Ricketts, Mr., 194 



Rinderpest, fearful ravages of in 

 Africa, 392-4 ; description of its 

 symptoms, 393 ; an eighteenth- 

 century English prayer for deliver- 

 ance from, 393 



' Ringhals,' Boer name for the cobra, 

 181 



Road grit, value of as manure, 401-2 



Robson (carpenter), 222, 234, 256 



' Roger's Blast,' local name for small 

 whirlwind, 159 



Rogerson, Rev. Mr., rector of 

 Denton, Norfolk, 244 



Rolling pastures, 145 



Roofing of cattle-yards, 94, 234, 256, 

 366.379,412 



Rooi Point, South Africa, farming at, 

 76-8, 86 



Rooks, damage effected by, 105, 278, 



451 

 Root crops, manuring for, 128, 132-3, 



137, 148; ploughing for, 132; 

 haling, 223, 375, 395, 400, 425 ; 

 see Beet, &c. 



Rose, Mr. (magistrate), 193, 194 



' Rough Jimmy,' 172, 182, 186, 283 



Royal Agricultural Benevolent In- 

 stitution, 305, 417 



Royal Agricultural Society, investiga- 

 tions undertaken by for farmers, 316 



Rumburgh, cost of repairs on farm at, 

 161 



Rural districts, decrease of population 

 in, 440, 459-69 



Rural exodus, the, a paper read 

 before the Norfolk Chamber of 

 Agriculture, 459-69 ; official statis- 

 tics, 461-2 ; private testimony, 

 461-4 ; the causes and remedies, 

 464-9 ; national importance of the 

 subject, 466, 468 ; effect of on large 

 towns, 466 



Rural life : a retrospect, 323-5 



Rye, planting, 369 



ST. SWITHUN'S-DAY, 273 



Sale of Food and Drugs Bill, 456 



Sand martins, 234 



Saumarez, Lord de, 38 



Scareciows, 105, 266 



School Board prosecutions, 202-3 



Scott, Mr., murdered by Soudanese 



mutineers, 392 

 Scudamore, Mrs., 231 ; chancel roof 



of Ditchingham Church painted by, 



232 



Scudamore, Rev. W. E., 231 

 Sea, encroachments of on East Coast, 



30, 31, 447 



Sea power of England, 380 

 Sea shells and sand at bottom ot 



wells, 1 8 

 Seed-drills, 96 

 Seed mixture for heavy pasture lands, 



14 



Seed, vitality of, 199, 200 



Sheep, Southdown and Suffolk breeds, 

 57, 123 ; feeding, 63, 404 ; value as 

 fertilisers of soil, 64, 100, 261 ; in- 

 stinct of, 92-3, 95, 229; sufferings 

 of, from flies, 102-3 ; ailments of, 



