INDEX. 



ABERDEENSHIRE, 93, 95, 103, 



105-10, 153 

 Abject poverty, 184 

 Abnormal weeds, 10 

 Absorption of small holdings, 1 74 

 Abstaining Welshmen, 81 

 Accidents to children, 224 

 Accounts for goods, 79 

 Achill, Isle of, 9, 148 

 Adaptability of ordinary men, 6 

 Advance, A substantial, 178, 



260-9 



Advances of capital to labourers, 

 163 



of wages, 124, 260 

 Aged toilers, 257-8 

 Agricultural area of the United 

 Kingdom, 169 



children, 256-7 



depression, 257, 260, 285 

 Alcohol, Expenditure on (Ireland), 

 140 



Money spent on (Scotland), 113 

 Alloa, 107 



Allocation of work, 8, 24 

 Allotment Bills, 165 



produce, 61, 167 



question, The, 162 



rents, 61 



system, A good, 46 



system, The English, 173-4 

 Allotments, 61, 249-52 



(Ireland), 128 

 Allowances in kind, 80-2, 87, 99, 



104, 107, 127-9, 134, 270 

 All-round man, The, 3 

 All-weather work, 5 

 Ambition of the peasant, 175 

 " American cheddar," 190 

 American cousins, 190 

 Amesbury, 263 

 Anglesea, 75, 77, 79, 84-5, 123, 153 



Animal caretakers, 12, 14, 19, 38, 

 53,55> 86 I2 3> 125, 134, 139 



Animals' grazing privilege (Ire- 

 land), 125 



Antrim, 124, 126, 131, 133, 153 



Anxiety of calving season, 6 



Appendix, 181-300 



Apprenticeships, 267 



Arable districts, 152 



land in the United Kingdom, 

 169 



Arduous work of shepherds, 5 



Argyllshire, 103, 105, io6,~ 108, 

 no, 153 



" Aries," 96 



Armagh, 131, 133, 153, 155 

 hiring fair, 124 



Atlantic, 190 



Aughnacloy hiring fair, 124 



Austin, Mr., 219 



Avebury, 261 



Axe river, the, 188 



Ayrshire, 94, 95-6, 103, 105-6, 

 108, no, 126, 149, 153. 

 155 



BABY CARETAKERS, 223 



" Back to the land," 176 



Bacon consumed, 58, 111-2, 



137-8 



Bad weather, 91, 94 

 Bailieborough hiring fair, 124 

 Bailiffs, Farm, 76 

 Balfour, Mr., 166, 167, 168, 169, 



172 



Ballymena hiring fair, 124 

 Ballynahinch hiring fair, 124 

 Banbridge hiring fair, 124 

 Banff, 93, 95, 103, 105, 106, 108 



no, 153 

 " Bare fallow " in the United 



Kingdom, 169 



