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I joined the Land Army when I was called up in 1942. I was sent to a village in N Lincolnshire to learn Dairy Farming. Learning to milk shorthorns and to drive a tractor was quite exciting especially when I got stuck in a muddy field. I also learned all about harvesting in the old fashioned way. Sheaves and threshing machines and building stacks. Towards the end of the war I worked for the milk marketing board in Northamptonshire riding round on a little motorbike recording the milk supply and taking butterfat samples from individual cows on various farms.

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