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The main cash crop, (1940's)
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...
Rats
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...
Under achievement of output big style
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...
The June Returns 1961
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 hay elevator
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...
I Remember the Threshing Machine Mishap
Ozzy came with face like thunder, chewing on his pipe, We dropped and run so fast, and hid away from gripe, He found a whippy nut stick, and chased us when we showed, "Within seconds we found ourselves hanging ten foot up in the air not knowing if...
Posted: Jan 01 2009, 09:23 PM by Owd Fred | with 3 comment(s)
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Corn Harvest 1940's ( For those on tuther side of the pond read WHEAT harvest)
When father came to Seighford, he grew a lot of wheat, He built it into corn ricks along the stack yard neat, Started at bottom getting wider up to eves, Then narrow off to great tall point, all built out of sheaves. The main cash crop apart from sugar...