Our Saturday lad in the 70's, got his HGV & went to work for local feedmill. He took 10 ton of beet pulp to a farm & they had him carry it up a ladder in 50 kg bags & put it on top of a half stack of hay.
No I remember Grandad on his 50 th Wedding aniversery telling me stories about the past, 1979 I think.
We used to get fertiliser with aldrin in at the time, super swede stopped wireworm & most soil pests.
Grandad left school in 1916 & was 12, mostly looking after the animals & grooming horses, polishing the draught horse tack.
In the late 1920's newly married & just took on the tenancy of a 65 acre farm but very short of money. A new road was been built & they wanted Men with a heavy horse & a...
Can you put a calf on her?
We once had a Simmental heifer found it with a flat calf most of the bones crushed, she did the same with the 2nd calf the following year.
We had to re drill the turnips 3 times because of flea beetle.
You young uns would not be able to lift 16 stone sacks & I wonder why we did.
Sheep were really difficult without antibiotics or wormers, we used to fold the suffolk crosses with woodern hurdles.
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