Sunday April 22nd. 1923
Fine
All go to Brettenham to tea
from Farm Work for the Year
April
Stock Farm:
Dairy work is in full swing, most of the calves have come, and cheese-making is at its busiest. Fatting beasts are still in stalls or boxes receiving mangels and hay with meal and cake. Sheepfolds are overtaking the turnips, and the plough follows immediately, and the last barley is sown. Young grass is available for ewes and lambs in the water meadows, and mangels may be taken to them in the pastures.
Special Crops:
Teazels in the second year should be dug between the plants. Gorse may be sown this month on any land that is otherwise waste; sow 10lb. of seeds in rows 18 inches apart.
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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