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First year farming in my own right 1961 Out to daytime pastures, to distant fields to graze, Back again for milking on long fine summer days, Just dug out an old diary from just fifty years ago, and on looking at the page where I recorded the June Returns...
The grass came out near black and toasted, but smelt sweet with the molasas, the cows liked it, but not much feed value left in it. The first silage that we saw demonstrated was at our local Farming College in the 1950's, they had a concrete tower...
All the young farm college students will laugh me off this page, because there does not seem to be such a thing as a full rotation these days. It seems a rotation for pests and diseases, and that's all. What you young un's must understand that...
Tipped us all out into a huge rhubarb patch, the clumsy driver was the head of department, that cart was decommissioned shortly afterwards as too unstable for the job. This is a story as it happened, of some of the highlights of my year at college This...