ng lambs, time for, 125.
Weaving, 70, 76, 110, 257.
Webster of Canley, 216.
Weeding hook and tongs, 84, 152.
Weeds, 125, 180, 201.
Week work, 8.
Welsh mountain sheep, 344, 346.
Wensleydale sheep, 343, 345.
Westcar of Creslow, 339.
Westcote, 128.
Westmoreland, 216, 295, 346.
Weston, Sir R., introduces clover, 111, 127, 141.
Weyhill Fair, 172.
Wheat,
acreage tinder, in 1907, 331-2;
consumption of, per head, 279;
cost of growing, 177, 180, 198, 199, 246, 307;
crops, 33, 67, 77, 91, 129, 142, 155, 165, 179, 180, 197-9, 227,
246, 282, 285, 286, 332;
cultivation of, 4, 16, 32, 36, 113, 125, 135, 177-9, 180, 184, 353;
different kinds of, 146, 107;
home supplies of, 277, 279, 313, 330;
price of, _see_ Prices.
White, Gilbert, 223.
Wilton, hops near, 171.
Wiltshire, 143, 174, 253, 268, 283, 286, 309, 312, 313;
sheep, 345.
Winchelsea, Lord, 255, 257, 268.
Winchester, 147, 150.
Wine, 144-5.
Wire binder, 304.
Wirral, 66.
Wisbech, 318.
Woad, 17, 152.
Women, work of, on the farm, 62, 85, 206, 316.
Wood, W. A., 304.
Woods, 2, 16, 59, 74, 78, 115, 125, 136, 155.
Woodstock, 53.
Wool, 37, 38-41, 69, 75, 80, 94, 104, 114, 118, 119, 142, 161,
163, 171-3, 184, 223, 285, 329, 354, 355;
export of, _see_ Exports;
import of, _see_ Imports;
price of, _see_ Prices.
Wool,
custom of picking refuse, 100;
storing, 125.
Worcestershire, 74, 128, 136, 143, 171, 306.
Work, hours of, 87, 147, 291.
Worlidge, John, 127, 131, 132, 142-8, 150-4, 165.
Worsley, Sir R., 145.
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Yeoman, the, 50, 71, 123, 128, 140, 156, 207, 258-61, 310, 320;
house of, 103.
Yeomen purchase lands of gentry, 122.
Yorkshire, 15, 78, 110, 138-9, 167, 168, 207, 225, 253, 283, 295, 306n.,
309, 337, 343, 346.
Young, Arthur, 160, 162, 163, 172, 180, 182, 188, 190-3, 194, 197, 200-6,
210, 211, 222, 224, 230, 232, 236, 240, 253, 255, 257, 260, 284,
285, 288n., 298, 314, 317, 335, 336, 337, 343, 353, 355;
opposed to drilling, 178;
pet aversions of, 191;
statements of, as to growth of clover, 112.
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