Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Abbreviations vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Series Editor’s Preface ix
6. Introduction x
7. Notes on Periodicals xvii
8. Richard Jefferies’ Essays and Letters
9. Drought and Water, Pall Mall Gazette, 28 June 1870 3
10. Farmers at Bay, Pall Mall Gazette, 8 February 1871 5
11. The Old Sporting Man, Pall Mall Gazette, 1 February 1872 9
12. The County Franchise, Pall Mall Gazette, 1 May 1872 13
13. The Rating of Personal Property, Standard, 23 May 1872 16
14. The Poetry of Steam-Ploughs, Graphic, 5 October 1872 17
15. The Wiltshire Labourer, The Times, 14 November 1872 22
16. Wiltshire Farmers and Labourers, The Times, 27 November 1872 30
17. The Future of Farming, The Times, 15 October 1873 37
18. The Farmer from his own Point of View, Pall Mall Gazette, 23 April 1874 40
19. The Power of the Farmers, Fortnightly Review, 1 June 1874 44
20. Patchwork Agriculture, Examiner, July 1875 52
21. The Cost of Agricultural Labour in 1875, Standard, 1 October 1875 55
22. Local Taxation, Standard, 29 December 1875 59
23. The Spirit of Modern Agriculture, New Quarterly Magazine, July 1876 62
24. Joint-stock Agriculture, Pall Mall Gazette, 16 March 1877 85
25. The Landowners’ Diffi culties, Pall Mall Gazette, 29 March 1877 88
26. The Agricultural Labourer’s Vote, Pall Mall Gazette, 24 May 1877 91
27. Unequal Agriculture, Fraser’s Magazine, May 1877 94
28. The Prospects of Farming, Pall Mall Gazette 19, 23 July 1877 102
29. Milk Supply, Pall Mall Gazette, 26 December 1877 108
30. The State of Farming, St. James’s Gazette, August 1881 111
31. Steam on Common Roads, Standard, 13 September 1881 121
32. The Preservation of Game in England, St. James’s Gazette, 25 October 1881 127
33. The Beauty of the Fields, Magazine of Art, December 1881 129
34. The Wiltshire Labourer, Longman’s Magazine, November 1883 133
35. One of the New Voters, Manchester Guardian, 24, 31 January 1885 144
36. Appendices 155