June 8th.

Friday June 8th. 1923

Fine
At home

E. Mayes finish Ploughing between beet & start Cutting Trifolium
J. Howe side hoeing beet


from Farm Work for the Year
June
Arable: Clovers and sainfoin are mown for hay and for forage, for which also the late vetches are still available. The fly is no doubt appearing among the earliest sown young turnips, which are brairding in the rows. The only preventive is to have the land in a growing state of tilth and fertility.There are also remedies in dusting the young plant with lime dust, or in brushing them over continuously with paraffin-wetted brushes. They are finishing turnip-hoeing in the North already, at the same time as they are only beginning in the South, where too early sowing makes them liable to mildew. Perhaps a little nitrate of soda sown in July and August between the rows whenever there is a chance of rain washing it in might help to maintain growth in spite of mildew.