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Stormy Sunset Hay Heating on the Stack Committee on Old Age 

 Pensions The Benefices Bill Ulsters in July Scene on the Back 

 Lawn Feeding Cattle in 1557 Two Views of a Crop St. Swithun's 

 Day American Reapers The Cattle and the Young Willows The 

 Docks on the Marsh Sparrows in the Wheat Cutting out Swedes 

 Magistrates and Conscientious Objectors An Object Lesson The 

 Divorced Game-cock The Advantages of Baby Beef The Process 

 of Thatching Splitting of Soil by Beet Bulbs -Destruction of Beet 

 by the Horse Hoe Buying a Reaper Proposed Agreements for 

 Harvest Boarding out of London Children A Rise of Swallows 

 Galvanised Roofs for Stacks The Bedingham Hay Crop Underbred 

 Cattle Rain at Last Drilling Maize and Mustard The Swallows 

 and their Egg An Ancient Farm An Old-fashioned Couple . . 255 



AUGUST 



A Primrose League Fete Sale of Red Poll Heifers Red- weed and 

 Rabbits Hare and Rabbits Bill Price of Fat Stock at Harleston 

 The Harvest Bargain Martha, Jane, and Babette Fight Between 

 Threshers and a Whale The Natural Law Some Examples A Wet 

 Day The Dead Foal An African Snow Scene The Work of Messrs. 

 Garton Agricultural Distress as a Subject for Jest Cause of Death of 

 Foal Fool's Parsley The New Ewes The Beginning of Harvest 

 The Reaper at Work Offers for Bedingham Layer in Barley Lady 

 Farmers of the Old Sort Cost of Repairs A Tree Tragedy- 

 Summer Fallowing and ' Maffies 'Barley Mowing A Confusion of 

 Terms A Hawking Owl A Rabbit Hunt Result of Over-manur- 

 ing Wheat Mysterious Successes in Agriculture Carting Pease 

 Horse-bees at Work Charges for Chemical Analysis The Humming 

 of Gnats A Summer Frost A Large Farm The Thunder-blasted 

 Tree Effects of Pressure on a Mast Experiences of Lightning at 

 Home and Abroad Chicory and Thistle Down Stacking Damp 

 Oats and Wheat An Ancient Brick The Past and the People -The 

 Instinct of Perpetuation Old Methods of Cottage Building Matted 

 Corn The Rising of the Harvest Moon 292 



SEPTEMBER 



Bungay Brewster Sessions Decrease of Crime Great Bulk of the 

 Crops First Day's Shooting The Heaven-sent Bicycle Forbidding 

 Aspect of Ripe Beans Messrs. Horton and Sime The Mettingham 

 Skeleton Seventeenth Century Joke The Abundance of Straw 

 The Great Heat Failure of the Reaper in Barley The Jeremiad of 



