Sunday July 1st. 1923
Fine
All at home
Fred Sharpe came over
from Farm Work for the Year
July
Arable Farm:
Peas will be ready for harvesting towards the end of the month in Southern counties, also winter beans. Any rye that has not been cut for forage, or for silage, is now ripe, and will be ready for harvest. Turnips must be horse and hand-hoed, probably for the last time.
Any tendency to mildew in the earlier crop may be checked by sowing a cwt. of nitrate of soda per acre by hand between the rows. Carrots and parsnips, too, receive their last hoeing.
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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