CONTENTS xvii 



PAGB 



Sir William Crookes Some Statistics of Wheat Areas Leguminous 

 Crops and Muck versus Niagara and the Zambesi The Death of Lord 

 Winchilsea The Heat and the Sun-spot Produce at Bedingham A 

 poor Day's Shooting Drought The Tricks of the Corn Market 

 The End of Harvest Co-operation : is it Practicable ? Bad Stacking 

 Decay of the Labourers' Skill A Visit to the Hebrides Locomo- 

 tion : Past, Present, and Future Oban to Coll Landing at Coll 

 The Swede in Coll Johnsonian Wit Farming in Coll Sportsmen ; 

 and a Story Bird-life in Coll Seals The Untiring Lees Shooting 

 and Scruples A Day's Sport in Coll The Function of Elymus 

 Arenarius The Old Castle The Tomb of the McLeans The Sea 

 Rovers' Grave Plover in a Gale Peat Drains Success at the 

 Agricultural Show A Clever Collie A Snipey Field Church at 

 Coll Superiority of Scotch Preachers Intelligence of their Congre- 

 gations The Lead Mine The Benhogh Stone Hangman's Hill 

 The Bradenham Chains Crofters and Population A Desolate Scene 

 ' Coll for my Money 'Drought at Upp Hall The Water Question 

 in Hertfordshire True Tale of a Dowser Large Fields and Steam 

 Ploughs Good Stacking Advantages of the London Market 

 Hertfordshire Rents Method of Well-SinkingManufacture of a 

 Trout Stream Memories ........ 327 



OCTOBER 



Ditchingham and Drought State of Crops and Stock First Thrashings 

 A Misguided Pheasant Ploughing in the Drought The Tale of a 

 Farmer Earlham Hall and Elizabeth Fry Tuberculosis and Tuber- 

 culin Necessity of Dairy Inspection Pigeons on the Lawn The 

 Lesson of Decay Our Fear of the Dark A Crazy Heifer The 

 Hatred of Hospitals A Broken Link Sale of two Red Polls Messrs. 

 Garton and Darwin Autumn on the Norfolk Coast A Well-man- 

 aged Shooting Tale of a ' Gallery 'Beet Lifting and Haling 

 Largesse Fall of Wages Grand Juries ...... 364 



NOVEMBER 



A Difference of Opinion The Eternal Round of Nature Critics on 

 Galvanised Iron Kohl-rabi verstis Swedes War and the Strength of 

 the Empire Valuation Day The Woes of Six Stops Sudden Fall 

 of Elm Boughs A Change of Farm Policy The Results of Bungay 

 Compost Autumn Sunlight and Cloud When the Strength Fails 

 The Beauty of Large Meadows Another Way of Beet Lifting The 

 Clergy as Sportsmen Loaders Bean Roots The Risks of Rabbit- 

 pie Sale of the Barley The Battle of Lubwa An Instance of 



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