July Activity of the Month: Harvesting
From left to right, top to bottom:
- Land Girls helping with the harvest at Piccotts End. Source: Dacorum Heritage Trust
- Clare Fletcher and Betty Gray stooking corn at Manor Farm, Cardington. Source: Stuart Antrobus
- Rita Stokes harvesting the corn with a tractor-driven reaper-binder. Source: Stuart Antrobus
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Molly Stevens, from Charlbury, Oxfordshire, working a hay turning machine. Source: John Lawrence, The Telegraph
Other activities included:
- Lambs given worm dose vaccinations and footbaths
- Shearing
- Silaging
- Irrigate potatoes
- Spray potatoes
- Vining peas
- Begin combining cereals
- Baling and carting straw or straw chopped for incorporation into ground by cultivations
Source: Farm Direct.co.uk
