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Grain and Chaff from an English Manor

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Homesteading

Grain and Chaff from an English Manor

Arthur Herbert Savory

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The bailiff, the hop drier, the head carter, the carpenter: an English manor ran on skilled hands. Arthur Savory gathers grain and chaff from Aldington, recalling the farm, the manor house, and the people who worked it. A vivid, affectionate memoir of estate farming. Live a year on an old English manor through the eyes of the man who managed it.

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58 chapters

  1. 1OXFORD
  2. 2PREFACE
  3. 3CONTENTS
  4. 4CHAPTER PAGE
  5. 5GRAIN AND CHAFF FROM AN ENGLISH MANOR CHAPTER I.
  6. 6ALDINGTON VILLAGE—THE MANOR HOUSE—THE FARM.
  7. 7CHAPTER II.
  8. 8THE FARM BAILIFF.
  9. 9CHAPTER III.
  10. 10THE HOP FOREMAN AND THE HOP DRIER.
  11. 11CHAPTER IV.
  12. 12THE HEAD CARTER—THE CARPENTER.
  13. 13CHAPTER V.
  14. 14AN OLD FASHIONED SHEPHERD—OLD TRICKER—A GARDENER—MY SECOND HEAD CARTER—A LABOURER.
  15. 15CHAPTER VI.
  16. 16CHARACTERISTICS OF AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS AND VILLAGERS.
  17. 17CHAPTER VII.
  18. 18MACHINERY—VILLAGE POLITICS—ASPARAGUS.

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