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Saturday, October 6, 2018

Wartime Farm '43

https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=37m12s
1943 - lowest level of food imports
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=1m16s

Straw house (billeting 90K Land Girls) & rodent problem
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=3m57s
Rodent damage had doubled - £60 million/year = 2 million tons of food = 100s of ships => bait boxes
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=12m29s
Nettle thatch
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=8m21s
Stamina sagging
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=6m37s
Scraps of grass for hay - cows, milk - 1.3 billion gallons in '43
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=10m53s
Allen scythe - new '43 model could be leased from Ministry of Agriculture
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=15m28s
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=23m21s
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=44m56s
Baling machine - could be leased from Ministry of Agriculture
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=45m14s
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=51m51s
Extra 20K workers needed in '43 - children's harvest camps = almost 70K children (most over 14)
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=19m11s
Collecting herbs - 90% of medicines were plant based - meadowsweet (ASA), white willow bark (ASA), cleavers (infection) - 4K tons/year
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=21m4s
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=24m36s
Drying herbs (35C, well-ventilated, dark) - 80% of weight lost - sage 5d/lb, foxglove (digitalis) seeds 7s 6d/lb & leaves 1s 3d/lb, Atropa belladonna (atropine)
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=31m18s
Honey, beekeeping - straw & bramble for skeps - £3 for colony of honeybees => 2s 6d/lb
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=29m11s
Queen exclusion mesh, straw & nettle shelter for skep
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=33m46s
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=41m5s
Feeding harvest camp children (fresh fish scarce b/ fishermen called up and many areas out-of-bounds to fishermen
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=24m40s
May '43 - Dambusters - Wings for Victory fundraising scheme
Flour sack cloth, ersatz cosmetics
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=37m45s
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=43m7s
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=48m24s

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Wartime Farm '42

Wartime Farm '41

1941
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=1m19s

Fuel shortage - foraging for wood
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=2m10s
WAEC - War Ags - 2,700 lost farms, 10,000 lost bits of farm
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=3m40s
https://www.kuleuven.be/icag/files/Brian_Short.pdf
bird scarer
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=37m54s
Lister engine and Alfa-Laval milking machine
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=20m50s
Flax
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=6m10s
1K => 60K acres
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=47m7s
British Percherons - by '45 O.5 million working horses, 1 million tractors
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=51m56s
Silage
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=12m37s
Raising rabbits - officially encouraged
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=30m17s
3-4 months to butcher
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=36m18s
rabbits nesting - War Ag inspector
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=55m3s
Government Films - Spring Offensive MoI '40 - War Ag shoot out
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=17m1s
Soap shortage & soapwort
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=26m16s
Washing machine
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=33m11s
Calving, milking machine, vet, cottage-cheese from off-milk - Barbarossa & diverted shipping
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=41m43s
cottage cheese
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=49m19s

Tractors
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=8m38s
"In 1938 the 12/20 model was redesigned and the model coding was changed so that the new model became the Marshall Model "M" tractor. During the war tractor production was reduced greatly due to Marshall's factory capacity being engaged on war work. However, after the war, in 1945, Marshall's of Gainsborough introduced the improved tractor they had developed as the "Field-Marshall"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_Marshall

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Wartime Farm '40

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Wartime Farm '39

Colehill - site of Auxiliary training | Banjay > .
https://youtu.be/CUsU5s0ofYo?t=40m13s
https://plus.google.com/collection/YLINaB
Special Duties Section - 3.5K - women
https://youtu.be/CUsU5s0ofYo?t=43m12s
Auxiliers
https://youtu.be/CUsU5s0ofYo?t=47m27s

http://www.coleshillhouse.com/specialdutiesbranch/special-duties-branch-overview.php
http://www.coleshillhouse.com/specialdutiesbranch/index.php
Known under the names Special Duties Branch (On most official war records), Special Duties Organisation (On some WW2 documents) and Special Duties Section or SDS (a post war phrase).

Bananas & Bacon
https://youtu.be/CUsU5s0ofYo?t=52m27s

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