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Tag Archives: milk-yield
21.7.39.
Fine part of the day, but overcast & damp in the morning, & a thunderstorm in the afternoon. Wheat yellowing. Planted out leeks (38 make a row.) Weeds very bad everywhere. This morning a female flower of a marrow opened; … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged goat, gooseberries, leeks, marrow, milk-yield, thunderstorm, weather, weeds, wheat
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11.7.[1]39.
Warm but not very sunny. Pricked out 90 wallflowers (flame). T. [2] thinks the lame pullet may have “the disease” (presumably coccidiosis) in which case it would be better to kill her. The infallible symptom is yellow dung, but apparently … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged chickens, goats, Kate, lame pullet, milk-yield, stawberries, wallflowers, weather
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1.7.39.
Fine most of morning, very heavy showers in afternoon. Garden mostly in good condition. Some strawberries ripe, a few broad beans fit to pick, onions improving, runner beans just starting to climb strings. Hay is cut & stacked in small … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged ducklings, hay, marigolds, milk-yield, Muriel, runner beans, scabious, strawberries, weather
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19.6.39.
Fine most of the morning, raining most of the afternoon. Not cold. Ground now too wet to do much in garden. Put out runner beans to fill up gaps in row, sowed sweet williams & wallflowers, mended frame, substituting windolite … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged carrots, Kate, milk-yield, runner beans, sweet williams, wallflowers, weather, windolite
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18.6.39.
Fine in the morning, raining fairly heavily most of the afternoon. The first ripe strawberry today. In spite of the net the birds are already getting at the partially ripe ones. K’s milk still down, only about 1 quart today. … Continue reading
17.6.39.
Fine, fairly warm. Sowed carnations (mixed perennial). Put roofing felt on henhouse. Paid for felt 9d a yard. Both goats’ milk badly down, no doubt owing to being unable to graze yesterday. Being indoors also seems to affect their appetite … Continue reading
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Tagged carnations, egg total, henhouse, how to make concrete fence posts, milk-yield, newspaper cutting
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15.6.39.
Windy, coldish & occasional drizzle. Put up stakes & wires upon which to stretch strings for runner beans. Fixed door of henhouse & supported it off the ground. K.’s milk yield increasing slightly. 15 eggs. (NB began new bottle of … Continue reading
14.6.39.
Bought 8 new R.I.R.[1] pullets, 3 to 3 1/2 months old, well forward 4/6 each. Finished putting up new house, which however is not creosoted or roof-felted yet, also the door needs adjustments. The old hen guarding the first lot … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged beans, broody hens, Eileen, goat, Kate, milk-yield, peas, pullets, Rhode island reds
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31.5.39.
Fine & warm, but strikes very chilly as soon as the sun begins to go in. Tomatoes (protected from the sun with sacking) are O.K. A few French & runner beans showing. M’s mate no good. When bringing her back … Continue reading
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Tagged french beans, goat, milk-yield, Muriel, runner beans, tomatoes, udders, weather, white owl
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