Sunday May 27th. 1923
Fine
At home
from Agricultural Review of the Year 1922
So far as Livestock are concerned in 1922, horses were reduced in numbers but cattle have increased. Pigs have not maintained the progress made in 1921 while sheep are fewer than a year ago, again quoting the official returns, the number of horses on agricultural holdings has been reduced by 44,300 to 1,340,300. A further decline in breeding is to be noted, the number of foals being only 83,800 or 8,500 less than last year and 18,300 less than in 1914.
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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