Thursday, January 3, 2008

January 3rd.

Wednesday January 3rd. 1923

Fine
Go to Bury buy two Calves 32/6 7/6
E. Mayes F. Reynolds Ploughing in Rattlesden meadow

from "Farm Work for the Year" printed in diary:
January:
Arable land: Finishing stubble ploughing. Carting manure from yards and boxes, either on stubble to be ploughed in at once or to the manure heap, for which a bed of earth should have been prepared. Road mending. Grubbing, mending and making fences. Carting lime: digging and spreading marl. Threshing corn of all kinds for market, or as straw is needed for use or sale. Executing works of drainage, road-making, building.

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