Sunday April 1st. 1923
Fine
At home
from Farm Work for the Year - April
Arable Farm: All spring-sown grass should be got in this month at latest. Potato-planting, too, should be finished in April. Early potatoes are earthed up by the double-mould board plough as a protection against frost. Kohl rabi may be sown in April either as on seed land, to be transplanted, or as turnips are in rows when the crop is to stand. Beans may be horse-hoed, and wheat, when the land is dry, may be harrowed and rolled and hoed.
A diary kept by Fred Knott in 1923, when he was 46, detailing working life on his Fen Farm at Rattlesden, near Stowmarket. There were 84 acres of land, worked with horses; Fred reared pigs and bullocks, and grew crops which included potatoes, turnips, swede and sugar beet. Four men worked for Fred, including a head horseman. The days were 12 hours long, with only Sundays and Christmas Day off - and, of course, the animals still needed attention on those days too.
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