November Activity of the Month: Tending Livestock

From left to right, top to bottom:

• A Land Girl feeding livestock taken by Robert Hunt. Source: AllPosterImages
• Edna Milton, from the Silsoe WLA hostel, Bedfordshire, with Dora the cow, April 1949. Source: Stuart Antrobus
• Another Bedfordshire land girl. Source: Stuart Antrobus

Farming activities included:

• Tup sales
• Male calves castrated before the onset of frost
• House cows
• Ploughing
• Late drilling of wheat
• Liquid fertiliser applied to sugar beet fields
• Continue to sell corn and arrange collection ex farm storage

Source: Farm Direct.co.uk