INDEX. 



309 



Harvest work prices,_24 



Harvesting, 7, 9, 10 



Hawksridge, 274 



Hay harvest, 7 



Hay harvests (Scotland), 98 



Haymaking, 7, 97 



"Heaving" of cottage floors, 



204 



Hedge-cutting, 23, 92-93 

 Hedger and ditcher, The, 41 

 Hedges, Repressing, 8. 

 Hedging, 7, 77 



Hedging and ditching man, 



The, 8 



Hercules, A piecework, 26 

 Herds (Ireland), 123, 125, 129, 



139 



Herdsmen, 2, 134 

 Hereditary shepherds, 17, 92 

 Herefordshire, 9, 10, 13, 15, 35-6, 



50, 54, 60, 149, 154 

 Hertfordshire, 13, 24, 34, 36, 53-4, 



60, 149, 154 

 Heywood, 274 

 Hinds, 2, 16, 19, 51, 91, 94 

 " Hired " men in Ireland, 123, 

 132 



in Wales, 85 

 Hiring fairs, 14-5, 78, 95-6 



in 1868-9, 222 



(Ireland), 123, 147 

 Hirings, Annual, 13 



in February, 95 



in March, 95 



in April, 96 



in May, 95 



in August, 96 



in October, 96 



in November, 96 



in December, 96 

 " Hirsel," 92 

 Hoeing by women, 1 1 

 Holcombe-Rogus, 243 

 Holes in cottage floors, 204 

 Home-grown produce (Ireland), 

 137. 138, 139 



produce consumed (Scotland), 



H3 



produce, Value of, 60 

 Honiton, 265 

 Hop counties, The, 10 



growing, 10 

 Hoppers, 10 

 Hopping a holiday, 10 

 Hops allowance, 33 

 Hops in the United Kingdom, 

 Total of, 170 



Hop work, 24 

 Horsekeepers, 3 



onerous work, 6 

 Horsemen, 3, 21, 91, 103, 107, 152 



graded, 92 



(Ireland), 123 



in Scotland, 104, 108 



(Wales), 86 

 Horses, Feeding and grooming, 6 



for breeding, 169 



in the United Kingdom, Total 



of, 171 

 Hours of cattlemen, 83 



of horsemen, 83 



of ordinary labourers, 83 



of shepherds, 83 



of work and wages (Wales), 



83-7 



House and garden, Values of, 52 

 Hovels at Halberton, 201 

 at sixpence (Ireland), 129 

 Two-roomed, 247 

 " Huckster," The, 293 

 Huntingdonshire, 9, 13, 34, 36, 50, 

 54, 60, 149, 154 



IDEAL COTTAGES, 281-3 

 Idling, 22 



Ignorance, Helpless, 178 

 Ill-drained cottages, 197 

 Illness of an insured pig, 300 

 Immorality in 1842, 221 

 Improved conditions, 175 

 Improvement, Dawn of, 222 



in dwellings, 273-80 

 Inalienable possession, 180 

 Indefeasible possession, 180 

 Indian meal consumed (Ireland), 



137, 138 



Industrial competition, 84, 104 

 Injustice of bad cottages, 277 

 " In kind," All, 37 

 Payments, 32 



Inspectors of allotments, 163 

 Instalment system of purchase, 



179 



Insurance of pigs, 298-300 

 Intellectual progress, 179 

 "Intensive cultivation," 173 

 Interchangeable duties, 6 

 Interest on advances, 163, 164 

 Inverness, 93, 95, 103, 105-6, 108, 



no, 154 

 Irate farmers, 234-5 

 Irish farmer, Inferior food of, 



146 

 immigrants, 98 



