CONTENTS 



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I Family Origin . 



II School and Early Days 



III Wanborough Plain Days 



IV A Trip to Australia, and Following Years 



at Wanborough Plain 



V The Great War Period 



VI BURDEROP . 



VII A Harvest Home 



VIII BURDEROP ON THE AlR 



IX Arable or Grass ? 



X Present-day Farming 



XI A Flying Visit to Scotland — ^August i, 1937 



XII An Impression of German Farming — 1938 



XIII Holidays .... 



XIV Land Tenure . 

 XV Wiltshire County Council 



XVI The National Farmers' Union 



XVII Foxhunting 



XVIII The New Regime 



XIX Farming and Foxhunting — 1938 



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