Catalogue description Agricultural and horticultural advice and memoirs of "55 years on the land", by Charles Hazell of Littlewick Green, White Waltham, entitled "My Life's Experience On the Land"

pp 1-11 Autobiographical details

p 13 Introduction to farming advice

pp 14-19 Comments on soil quality, with details of author's use of a 10 pole allotment

pp 20-22 Advice on keeping livestock on one acre

pp 22-25 Fruit and flower growing on one acre

pp 26-29 Vegetable farming on one acre

pp 30-35 Flower gardening

p 35 The herb bed

pp 36-40 Advice on exhibition or show plots or allotments, with details of his success in a county competition, 1938

pp 41-53 Dusting crops

pp 54-55 Comments on the development of "experimental stations" for farming and horticulture

pp 56-59 Memoir of agriculture in the 1890s, including details of labourers' wages and expenses

pp 60-69 Haymaking

pp 70-72 Treatment of cattle

pp 73-74 Dealing with diseased poultry

pp 75-77 Greenhouse management

p 78 Smallholdings (5-50 acres)

pp 79-94 Living on a 3 acre plot

pp 95-96 Views on politics and religion

p 97 Views on the Co-op movement ("the working man's friend")

p 98 Rhubarb growing

p 99 How to draw up an animal's pedigree

p 100-110 Views on farming in 1940s and in the past

pp 111-113 Hay and silage making on larger farms

p 114 Bantam keeping

pp 115-126 Cows

pp 127-146 Poultry

pp 147-149 Pigs

p 150 Fertiliser

pp 151-157 Sheep

pp 158-160 Land use on the Downs and comments on the "waste" of leaving land such as common land uncultivated

pp 161-164 The use of horses and tractors on farms

pp 165-168 Ducks, turkeys and geese

pp 169-189 Rabbit keeping and showing, including details of different breeds

pp 190-192 Beekeeping

pp 193-195 Allotment shows

pp 196-197 The uses of education to the farmer

pp 198-199 Horticultural show classes

pp 200-203 "The most up to date method of management of land in the year 1946"

pp 204-205 Cloches

pp 206-209 Fertilisers

p 210 Helping other smallholders

pp 211-212 Evacuees' use of allotments

p 213 "Caution to beginners"

pp 214-215 Comments on social class

pp 216-225 Growing vegetables for shows

p 226 Guinea pigs and fancy mice

p 227 Goat keeping ("the poor man's cow - but give me a cow")

pp 228-229 Author's exhibiting and judging career

p 230 Exhortation to cultivate the land and produce food

pp 231-232 "Master plan for farming, gardening and smallholding"

p 233 "Home comforts"

p 234 Summary of author's "56 years working on the soil. Just one long holiday, with pay"

p 235 Poultry anecdotes

p 236 Verse on farming, with hopes for the year 1947