474 



A FARMER'S YEAR 



Ash, excellence of wood for agricul- 

 tural implements, 214 

 Australian mutton sold as Welsh, 194 



BAGENAL, MR. PHILIP, 409, 461 



Bailiffs, gentlemen applicants for 

 employment as, 421-2 



Baker's Farm : acreage, 32, 36-7 ; 

 proportion of arable and pasture, 

 37 ; condition of land and crops, 

 35, 44, 63, 89, 149, 198, 212, 219, 

 365 ; farming operations, 48, 63, 

 81, 88, 119, 132, 137, 156, 162, 

 240, 249, 278, 301 ; the live stock, 

 63, 89, 92, 128, 187, 452 ; hay- 

 making and stacking, 247, 256, 

 266, 271, 286, 288, 293 ; harvest- 

 ing pease and grain, 307, 317, 

 322, 325, 328 



Balance sheets of the farms, 38-9, 

 441 



Banks, loan of capital by to farmers, 

 42 



Barley, 13, 128, 156, 198, 212-3, 

 2 5 2 255, 307 ; ploughing for, 64 ; 

 shedding of, in dry seasons, 97, 

 128, 161; prices of, 172, 337, 

 364, 366, 389 ; harvesting, 307-9, 

 312, 317, 327-8, 332 ; thrashing, 

 376, 378 ; sale of standing crops, 



459 



Barnato, Mr. Barney, quoted, 154 



Basket sparrow traps, 90 



Bath Hills, Ditchingham : known in 

 ancient times as the Earl's Vine- 

 yard, 18; beauty of views from, 

 1 8, 20, 21 ; evidence as to the 

 former existence of a vineyard, 

 20-22 ; account (1738) of a mineral 

 spring and bath-house, 21 ; attempt 

 to establish a wild bird preserve, 

 27 ; the southern portion, 30 ; 

 other references to, 91, 117, 120, 

 122, 137, 148, 161, 173, 180, 195, 

 213, 222, 239 



Baulking, 93, 223 



Baulk-splitting, 201, 214, 216 



Beans, 96, 155, 160, 213, 217, 219, 

 223, 255, 372, 378 ; prices ob- 

 tained for, 178 ; harvesting, 327, 



336 ; appearance of when dead 

 ripe, 329 ; root formation of, 388 



Beccles, 19 ; floods in the neighbour- 

 hood of, 30 



Becke, Mr. Louis, 300 



Bedingfelds, the, 261 



Bedingham : Blomefield's derivation 

 of the name, 4 ; antiquity of the 

 village, 4 ; early history and 

 notable inhabitants, 4-7 j see 

 Moat Farm 



Bedingham Church, 159, 256; the 

 registers, 240 ; quaint extracts 

 from, 241-5 



Bedingham Hall, 6 



Bedingham Priory, 6 



Beer, adulteration cf, 71 



Bees, 217 



Beet, 56, 212, 217, 219, 223-4, 

 246, 251, 253, 255, 284, 294, 336, 

 365; seed drilling, 137, 148, 156, 

 157 ; horse-hoeing crops, 155 ; cut- 

 ting-out, 234, 248, 249 ; destruc- 

 tion of by horse-hoe, 284 ; lifting 

 and haling, 375, 383, 385, 395, 

 400, 402 ; different methods of lift- 

 ing, 375, 385 ; the crop at Beding- 

 ham, 380, 395 



Begging letters and impostors, 422-3 ; 

 a genuine case, 423 



Benacre Broad, 208-9 



Benedictine nunnery at Bungay, 

 remains of, 24 



Benefices Bill, the, 267 



Bensely (bailiff), killed by a bull, 146 



Beresford, Lord Charles, 1/9 



Betting, mischief caused by, 154 



Bigod's (Earl) vineyard, 20 



Bigods, the, 5, 113; Sir Hugh 

 Bigod, 23, 24 ; Sir Roger Bigod, 

 24 



Birds, behaviour of during a shooting 

 beat, 433-7 



Black Dog of Bungay, legend of, 

 26-7 



Blackmailing parliamentary candi- 

 dates, 165 



Blomefield, quoted, 4, 20 



'Blowing' of cattle, 84, 128; local 

 recipes for, 87-8 



Blythborough Church, 257 



