Thursday August 9th. 1923
Fine
at home
E. Mayes, Howe, Reynolds & myself finish carting Peas, & start cutting Bullace field of Wheat
Reynolds & Howe cutting round winter Beans
E. Mayes
long day
from Agricultural Review of the Year 1922
Hops (contd.)
In the western counties yields were not so satisfactory, being half a hundredweight below average in Herefordshire and just average in Worcestershire. Results this year were therefore the reverse of those of last year, when the western counties had good crops and the south-eastern counties lighter crops than usual.
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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