The Book of the Farm: Detailing the Labours of the Farmer, Farm-steward, Ploughman, Shepherd, Hedger, Farm-labourer, Field-worker, and Cattle-man 5

Front Cover PRACTICE-SUMMER (continued) Building field-ricks Improved hay-stacking appliances Dressing stacks Autumn work 177 Self-binder Stacking cereals Carting “gaitins Mr Duncan's rack Methods of prevention Adjusting the sock Time for sowing Sowing barley 187 218 Beginning of harvest Disease in black currants Size of dipper, and number of hands Weather for dipping Poultry in autumn Weak hives ledge Black soil Rotation and live stock Vegetables Gravel soil Bush fruit Conditions of lease 194 Shelter overdone Seed grain Joining dykes Scythe No shelter Early methods Wet clay-land 225 Custom in executing drainage 34 134 Cost of cutting drains