INDEX. 



315 



Sewage water for drinking, 230 

 Sewers, Open, in village, 230 

 Shaftesbury, 264, 276 

 Sheep-clipping, 92, 101 

 -dipping, 92, 93 

 farms, 17 



Highland, 92 

 for labourers, 37 

 in the United Kingdom, Total 



of, 171 



keep free, 100 

 -keeping (Scotland), 113 

 -marking, 101 

 -shearing, 24, 29 

 -smearing, 92 

 Turnip-feeding of, 93 

 -washing, 24, 29, 92, 93 

 Shepherds, 3, 5, 15, 17, 20-1, 

 27-8. 37. 79, 83, 87, 91-2, 

 94-5, 100, 152, 228, 263, 

 269 



(Ireland), 134 

 (Scotland), 113 

 (Wales), 86 

 allowances, 93 

 cows (Scotland), 113 

 haymaking, 92, 93 

 in the United Kingdom, 158 

 " no hours," 5 

 pay, 37 

 Under, 29 



Shetland, 103-5, IQ 8, no, I53~4 

 Showy clothes, 290 

 Shropshire, 13, 15, 35-7, 5, 54, 



60, 149, 154, 156, 200 

 Sick benefit clubs, 39 

 Sickness, Deductions for, 38 



Payments during, 39 

 Sid river, The, 188 

 Singling, 7 



Six shillings a week, 129, 247 

 Skilled men, 5, 6 

 Slack seasons, 39, 41 

 Sligo, 9, 131, 133, 148, 154, 156 

 Slingers, 10 



Small farmers (Ireland), 123 

 holders' livestock, 40 

 holder, The, 48, 173, 175 

 Small holdings, 36, 41, 77, 78, 249 

 Act, 1 66 



Committee, i, 179 

 in the United Kingdom, 172, 



174 



(Ireland), 134 

 The day of, 151 



" Smock frock " disappearing, 

 289, 290, 291 



Snowstorms and buried sheep, 92 

 Socialism, Mischievous, 180 

 Soils, Heavy, 24 



Light, 24 



" Som," The (Ireland), 134 

 Somersetshire, 3, 13, 35-7, 50, 54, 

 60, 129, 154, 187, 190, 

 192-4, 202, 205, 219, 267, 

 269, 278, 287, 292 



cottages, 206 



depopulation, 47 



Description of, 189 



orchards, 190 

 South African War, 159 

 Southern counties, 33-4, 58, 60 

 " South Hams " of Devon, 188, 



265 



South of England, 9, 191 

 South-western counties, 33-4, 58, 



60, 191 



South Western Railway, 191 

 Sowing, 7 



" Sowing manures," 99 

 Spade hands, 16, 51 

 " Spade hinds," 92 

 Spademen, 76 

 Speaning, 92 



" Special extras " at harvest, 30 

 Squalid hovel, 205 

 Squalor, 178 



of a cob hovel, 203 

 Staffordshire, 3, 9, 13, 15, 36-7, 



50, 54, 60, 148, 154, 200 

 Stanhope, The Hon. E., 200, 207, 



224 



Starvation, The wolf of, 178 

 State aid, 179 



to labourers, 162, 163, 164 

 Statute fairs, 15 

 Stewards, 18, 91, 95 



(Ireland), 123 



Stimulus for the labourer, 175 

 Stirling, 96, 103-5, Io &> IIO > I 55 

 Stocking allotments, 163 

 Stockmen, 3, 20, 21, 76 

 Stoke-sub-Hamdon, 268 

 Stone floors, 204 

 Stone-picking by women, 1 1 

 Storing turnips (Ireland), 149 

 Stourpain, 195, 197 

 Strabane hiring fair, 124 

 Strappers, 10 

 Straw free for animals, 37 



free for pigs, 37, 99, 271 

 " Strike in Warwickshire, The," 



280 

 Strike of 1872, The, 177, 192 



