Sunday June 3rd. 1923
Fine
All at home
Bob & Kitty came over from Hartest
from Farm Work for the Year
June
Arable Farm: Turnip cultivation is the chief work in June in Southern and Midland counties. Other forward green crops will need horse and hand-hoeing, and singling out to fitting distances - mangels about 12 inches apart, carrots and parsnips about 7 or 8, and kohl rabi about 10. Cabbages may be transplanted either into well-prepared land, so as to yield a full crop of drumheads in December and late autumn, or between the rows of the ripening early crop of potatoes, so as to provide a catch crop after they have been removed.
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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