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The longest swath or the longest furrow is always the one round the outside of the field. I seem to walk and work about the farm these days in a reflective daze, half looking back, and half looking forward, with every thing starting to overtake my way...
The main cash crop apart from sugar beet, was wheat this was sown usually after a break crop of grass as in the Norfolk four coarse rotation of Roots Barley Seeds Wheat , Wheat stooked in the field and left for 2 church bells ( ten to fourteen days) before...
We took delivery of a brand new Vicon Acrobat spider wheel hay turner come rowing up tool fifty years ago this month. It was an amazing machine at the time with no driving parts or gears, just turned by dragging the four wheels along the ground at an...
In all my seventy three years, it was only during my first nine years that I had anything to do with our farms three shire horse. The most regular job was to lead them to the blacksmith's shop with my brothers on the way to school. They would stay...
They are a never ending problem, but not as bad as they used to be back sixty or more years ago. They would come down from the fields as the autumn got colder and into the stacks and bays filled with shoffs of wheat and oats, the stacks outside were thatched...
I read the Farmers Weekly, ov read it all me life, Read it in the good times, and read it through the strife, In its words and pictures, brings us all the news, Tells us of our leaders, n' tells us of their views. This farm could double its output...
So all in all you reap what you sow, you cannot keep robbing the producer, in this case the cow. It started when I joined a Milk Marketing Board scheme called ‘Low Cost Production’. November 1962. Much to my disgust I seemed to always be in the lower...
I save it just in case, nothings ever chucked away, Piles of it every where, It might come in one day. I Remember the old cast iron wheels Long old elevator, use to pitch the corn, High in the hay barn, before the combine born, After harvest it was thatched...
It was as if the tractor was on an elastic band springing gently from its precarious position, with me holding its balance, You may or may not know that feeling when you know a trailer that you just spent a lot of time and energy loading by hand tips...
We have only just passed the fortieth day of St Swithin's, it did rain on the 15 th July and true to its legend or saying, it has rained more days than its been fine. The grass has grown continuously right through the summer and given us very little...
This is a Massy Harris Binder like father had from 1938 to1956 originaly he pulled it with three shires then he had a clevis hitch put on the pole to shorten it and pulled it with his Standard Fordson. It's now nearing the time for harvest festivals...