486 



A FARMERS YEAR 



Swedes, 82, 149, 206, 212-3, 2 53> 

 255, 286, 336, 358; cutting out, 

 278 ; lifting and haling, 421 ; 

 uncertainty of crops, 452 



Swifts, 239 



TAIA, Egyptian queen, bust of, pur- 

 chased from a pedlar, 239 ; golden 

 ring of, 239 



Taxation on land, 41, 42 



Tenant farmers: repairs, n ; laying 

 down pastures, 16, 17; an instance 

 of superhuman virtue, 52 ; a 

 seventy-seven years' tenancy, 53 ; 

 farming with insufficient capital, 

 149; in the year 1560, 290, 291 ; 

 good and bad, 310-12; the 

 modern tenant, 446 



Thatching comb, 283 



Thatching haystacks, description of 

 process, 282-4 



Thistles, 214, 216, 225, 293 



Thorn scrub, rapid spread of, 62 



Thrashing, 102, 163, 366, 376, 378 



Threshers and whale, fight between, 

 299, 300 



Thrushes, 235 



Thruston, Major, murdered by 

 Soudanese mutineers, 392 



* Thwarting,' 95 



Tides, phenomenal, 30-31 



'Tied houses,' 71; evils of the 

 system, 110-13; quality of beer 

 sold at, no, in, 113; suggested 

 remedy for the evil, 112 



Tile-draining, 66, 79 



Timber-gilling, 185, 187, 201 



Timber : steam sawing, 213-4, 221, 

 234, 238 ; effects of excessive strain 

 on, 318; prohibitory charge for 

 railway carriage, 411 



' Times,' the, on the margarine trade, 

 184 ; agricultural summary in, 446 



Tindale Wood, 38, 46, 238, 385, 

 433, 436 



Tithes, diminishing value of, 9, 454 



Toads, a tame trio, 295-9 ; their food 

 and method of feeding, 296-8 ; 

 length of life, 298 



Toadstools, 226 



Tobacco, reduction of duty on, 168-9 

 Tramps : the granite breaking test, 



431 ; a ' master rogue,' 431 

 Transvaal, adventure with a cobra, 



1 80 ; ostrich farming in the, 398, 



399 



Trees : cutting, 119-22 ; growth of, 

 121-2; treatment of, 122; felling, 

 137-41 ; growing from old stumps, 

 141 ; ravages of animals among 

 saplings, 275-6, 294 ; ruined by 

 tenants, 311-2; shedding of 

 boughs by elms, 382 ; destroyed by 

 gales, 448-9 



Trout stream, making a, 362 



Tuberculosis in cows : the tuberculin 

 test, 369 ; need of Government 

 inspectors, 369 



' Tulip,' a Natal herb fatal to cattle, 



87 



Turk Taylor, 429, 430 

 Turkeys, cruelty of to other fowl, 



115; an egg-eating hen, 183; a 



courtship scene, 187 

 Turnips, 206, 240, 284, 289, 306, 



307 ; the crop at Bedingham, 380 

 Tusser, Thomas, quoted, I, 143, 



272, 290-91, 444 

 Twitch -grass, difficulty of eradicating, 



133. 155-6, 240 



UDEDALES, the, 5 ; Sir John de 

 Udedale, 6 



Unexhausted improvements, com- 

 pensation for, 34 



University Missions to Central Africa, 

 270 



Upland Hall, 19 



Upp Hall, Hertfordshire, 358 ; a 

 water famine, 358 ; system of 

 farming, 360 ; method of deepening 

 wells, 361 ; converting a coarse- 

 fish river into a trout stream, 

 362 



Upper Engadine, school attendance 

 in the, 204 



VACCINATION, instances of its efficacy 

 in South America, 281 



