INDEX 



ADVOWSONS, sale of, 267-8 



Africa, violence of thunderstorms in, 

 320-1 ; horse-sickness, 394. See 

 also South Africa 



Agricultural enthusiast, an, 439 



Agricultural labourers, 51, 53; skill 

 at their work, 66, 72 ; and the 

 comic papers, 67 ; education, 67, 

 73 ; their problem of life, 67-9 ; 

 provision for old age, 68-71, 384 ; 

 the survival of the fittest ' theory, 

 71 ; pay and hours of labour, 72-3 ; 

 cottages, 73, 322-3, 325 ^posi- 

 tion at the beginning of the century, 

 73; drift of the young men to the 

 towns, 73, 170, 203, 338-9,408-9, 

 457> 459-69 ; emigration : their 

 horror of change and the unknown, 

 74-5 ; scarcity of good hands, 

 74-5, 421-2, 460-2 ; objections 

 to enlisting, 75, 76; taking service 

 on Lowestoft fishing smacks, 75-6 ; 

 indifference to the monotony of 

 their labour, 79 ; hardships of a 

 ' good old-fashioned winter,' 80 ; 

 rate of wages, 117, 204, 285, 

 294-S 376, 416, 465, 467, 470 ; 

 and holidays, 136; political con- 

 victions of, 165, 1 86, 456-7 ; and 

 egg-stealing, 228 ; decline of skill 

 among, 338 ; unwillingness to enter 

 for competitions, 407-8 



Agricultural land, decrease in value, 

 310-11 



Agiicultural machinery, advantages 

 of using, 264, 274, 360 



Agricultural produce : cost of car- 



riage, 410, 411 

 Agriculture, condition of in Eastern 



Counties, 34, 41, 43, 48, 129-31, 

 . 417, 418, 445-6, 457; waning 



political influence of, 445, 456, 467 ; 



State aid: a suggestion, 455, 457 

 All Hallows Farm : acreage, 32, 



35-7 ; proportion of arable and 



pasture, 37 ; work in the fields, 



47, 64, 100, 104, 1 06, 120, 128, 



132-3, 148, 158, 213, 222, 234, 



284, 307> 3I5> 317; care of live 

 stock, 57, 92, 95, 365; state of 

 growing crops, 149, 404 ; the hay 

 harvest, 240, 245, 249, 250, 256 ; 

 stack making, 271, 328, 405 ; 

 harvesting the grain, 325, 328, 

 332 ; lifting root crops, 385 



Allotments, crops grown on, 248 



America, dislike of English farm 

 hands to, 74 ; food-producing 

 power of, 1 80 



American agricultural machinery, hold 

 on the English market, 273 



Animals, their sensitiveness to pain, 

 1 74> 39 > behaviour of wild 

 animals during a shooting beat, 



433-7 



Annual valuation, the, 381 



Anti-vaccinationists, and the Vaccina- 

 tion Bill, 279, 280 



Arable land, decrease in area of, 333, 

 446 



Arinagaur chapel, Coll, 350 



Army and Navy Stores, 471 



