November 30th.

Friday November 30th. 1923

Frost
At home
E. Mayes & J. Howe & myself topping up Shed in Stackyard in the morning.
Start ploughing pea land in 12 acres in the afternoon

from Farm Work for the Year
November
Stock Farm:
Cattle in the feeding stalls and sheep in the folds are being fed liberally, where beef or mutton is the end in view.The former are receiving cut or pulped swedes along with chaff, and their cake and meal is being gradually increased up to perhaps 6 or 8 lb. a day. Sheep also may be eating 1 lb. of cake or beans along with their chaff, and perhaps 20 lb. of roots in their troughs daily. In the dairy, as the grass fails, cows may receive hay as fodder in the fields, or be tied up in cow-houses, receiving cabbage or roots along with hay and straw chaff. Cheese-making comes to an end, and the milk of any lately-calved cows, or cows purchased for their winter milk, is sold directly to the consumer, the yield being stimulated by good feeding of all kinds, including grains and cake and meal. Store pigs are fed on turnips and bran, and fatting pigs on turnips, potatoes, and bean-meal.
Special Subjects:
Fences are planted, mended, cut, and laid this month; posts and rails should be repaired. Work in the hop grounds include draining, sorting, and repointing poles, and planting. Osiers may be cut this month. The teazel land receives a shallow digging between the rows of young plants. In water meadows, furrows, surface drains, hatches, etc., are all completed and irrigation commenced by those who have water at command.