CONTENTS 



BEDINGHAM, DITCHINGHAM AND THE FARMS 



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The Education of Nature The small Scale My Acreage The Moat 

 Farm Derivation of Bedingham The Procession of the Past The 

 Lords of Bedingham Bruce's buried Heart Margery's Love Letter 

 The Priory The Charm of Age Heavy Land The Fall in Farm 

 Values Websdill Wood Map of Moat Farm The New Pastures 

 Tenants and 'Laying Down' Ditchingham Shells in the Sand 

 Outney Common Views The Vine in England The Essay of 

 Apothecary King The Bath Spring Bungay Sir Hugh Bigod 

 The Deed of Roger de Huntingfeld Copper-bottoming and the 

 Black Dog of Bungay A Wild Bird Preserve Ditchingham Lodge 

 Mr. Ives and the Duke Miss Ives and the Viscount The Sons and 

 the Tutor Floods and High Tides Lack of the Co-operative Spirit 



Farms and Stock at Ditchingham Condition of Land in 1889 



Land-sucking and the Land-sucker Valuations All Hallows 

 The Glebe Baker's Tindale Wood- -Map and Details Capital and 

 Profit and Loss Accounts -Governments and the Farming Interests 

 Borrowed Capital Advice to Investors The Silver Lining . . I 



JANUARY 



A Mad Hare Christmas Weather Ploughshares Bungay Compost 

 First Calves of Heifers Dyke-cleaning An Early Lane Bankrupt 

 Families A Rent Audit An Ancient Bridle Storage of Beet 

 First Lambs Southdowns and Suffolks Strange Behaviour of Cows 

 Red Poll Cattle Ditching Fences Young Pastures A Poor Crop 

 Ploughing of Barley Lands The Bedingham Steer Showing 

 Cattle Bush Draining The Lot of the Agricultural Labourer Old 

 Age Pensions Migration of the Labourer Going for a Soldier . 45 



FEBRUARY 



The Wind in the Pines Candlemas Day Sheep and Heat The 

 Influence of Frost First Snow Thrashing, Old and New Rooks 



