This is an enlargement of middle of the middle section of the map. Says Maurice Cass: Running the 'farm' took a lot of organisation and forward planning usually 6 months forward to get the land ready well in advance of its use. I had an amazing foreman, Charlie Prince, who'd worked on the farm all his life and so told me of what life was like and the work undertaken during his early years. His first job was to steer the plough pulled across the fields by the ploughing engines. In my time I introduced some 'proper' equipment and took the scythes out the hands of the farm hands and replaced them with what was modern farming equipment in those days. A 4 x 4 tractor, 5 furrow ploughs, disc harrows, subsoilers, etc, and finally I turned over the application of the sludges to the soil by using a subsoil injection system instead of flooding the land which was first trialled at Stoke Bardolph, Nottingham. Of all the jobs I ever tackled at Severn Trent this was easily the most interesting and sometimes frustrating.
Running the 'farm' took a lot of organisation and forward planning usually 6 months forward to get the land ready well in advance of its use. I had an amazing foreman, Charlie Prince, who'd worked on the farm all his life and so told me of what life was like and the work undertaken during his early years. His first job was to steer the plough pulled across the fields by the ploughing engines. In my time I introduced some 'proper' equipment and took the scythes out the hands of the farm hands and replaced them with what was modern farming equipment in those days. A 4 x 4 tractor, 5 furrow ploughs, disc harrows, subsoilers, etc, and finally I turned over the application of the sludges to the soil by using a subsoil injection system instead of flooding the land which was first trialled at Stoke Bardolph, Nottingham. Of all the jobs I ever tackled at Severn Trent this was easily the most interesting and sometimes frustrating.