A Farmer's Year; Being His Commonplace book for 1898
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One of the features of these mowings is the almost invariable presence of a man with a dog — someone in the village who is fond of a bit of sport. As the mowers approach the end of a stretch a bunny or two will bolt, and be swept up by the dog before it can win the shelter of the hedge. The rabbits thus obtained are, AUGUST 313 I believe, divided among all concerned, upon some fixed system, but what it is I do not know. Here is a story of a gentleman who knows about everything in the world exce...pt the art and practice of agriculture, who accom- panied me to Bedingham yesterday. Scene : a beet field, and by the gate a patch of tiny white turnips recently drilled upon the site of the last year's root-clamp, or 'hale,' where swedes had been stored and earthed over. ' Why are these so much smaller than those ? ' asked my friend, pointing first to the patch of little turnips and next to the tall beet in contact with and surrounding them. ' Because of the hale,' I answered. ' Indeed ! ' he said, ' that is most interesting.
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