The farms life in spring time
Springtime in the farms
In early spring all trees start to flower, the birds are happily singing, everything seems so nice, and the farmers are all waiting happily for the future harvest of whatever they have been planting during winter.
In spring the fields are very green, we all look for sign for a good harvest.
Welcome to our hub, springtime in the farms
From the farmers’ point of view, one could
say that the farm life is usually the same even in spring time, because first
and foremost you have to look after the farm animal, since the farm animals
could be said that are (or were) the backbone in farming; you see, up to the
time when I was young everything was done by using these animals strength to
plough the fields, to carry heavy weights around, and to pull the cart, because,
when I was young there were not that many tractor around yet, they were coming
out but they were too expensive to buy, so we had still to rely on the farm
animals to do the job, in the small farms of those days. You see since then
several farm machineries have come out and have helped farming a lot in every
way.
Here, we would like to show our readers the
great difference in farming, between those by gone days and these days; and
also the great benefit that we the community receive form this modern way of
wheat farming. Here a link to one of our own hubs where we compare this
difference; Farming today
compared to the old way
Now, since we are talking about the farm
life in spring of those days, I don’t want to winch too much here, because
spring is a much better season than winter, you know that from what I have
already written in our previous hubs. However we still need to explain how we
look after the farm animals in spring, if we want to inform our readers how
life was in the farms then.
So now, let me describe the changes that spring time brings in the
country of the town that I came from, above all let us see what changes it
brings to the farmers and the farms animals, you see in the temperate zone,
there are big changes in temperature, every season brings a new way of life and
spring brings its big changes as well. As we have said, we were hand feeding
all farm animals during the winter, which was a very boring job, now spring is
very welcome. I am saying this because, in springtime the way of looking after
the farm’s animals changes a lot, because in spring time it will reach a stage
when most of the farm’s animals will be feeding on grass, and most of them will
be grazing in the paddock during daytime, at night most of us small farmers
would still bring them inside the farm stables for security reasons, so let us
describe how generally this was done.
For a start, during the winter and perhaps most of the year, the large
farm animals have been hand fed in the stable with straws, oats and hay, but
now gradually they will be let loose to graze in the paddocks. So as soon as
the grass in the paddock grows enough in early spring, the cows are let loose
in the paddock for a few hours each day to begin with, and then as the grass
starts growing faster they will graze in the paddocks all day long. The next on
line to graze in the paddocks are the pregnant mares, followed by the rest of
the animals: So that in mid spring all animals that are grass eater will be
feeding only on grass; that is during the day in the paddocks and at night with
fresh harvested grass, which has been purposely grown and cut from the farmers.
As you can see the farmers are still busy
to look after the farm animals, but now it is not as hard as in winter times
and the weather is usually fine, and every day that go past it becomes warmer,
so a more relaxed way of life can be enjoyed, we have to say more about the
farm animals later on, because now I would like to change on a more happy
subject, for the time being just to try to find some happiness, in the middle
of so much boring life.
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So what relief could spring
bring?
So, let us see what relief or happy things
spring could bring; apart from what we have said in our last hub and how
dreadful life was in the farms in winter times, spring puts an end to those
dreadful times; so, here we are going to talk about springtime in the farms, and
we believe that just thinking about springtime in the farmers’ world, it would brings
a smile to the farmers faces, because this new season brings hope to everyone,
but that is not all, because we are sure that just about everyone of us human
likes springtime, and if you are in the farm this feeling is felt even more, it
is our nature and because the farmers are closer to Mother Nature they can feel
this perhaps more than somebody else.
Here we have to say also that all other
living animals love springtime, because spring seems to bring a new beginning
to everything, it brings new hope and it brings new life and we humans are all
waiting for the good things that will come during the year, you see spring is
completely different from what we have been talking about in one of our last
hubs, where we have been telling you beside other things what we did in the
farm in a winter day and it was very boring, as we had to do all those
repetitive chores day in day out, here is the link if you want to check it out
what we said there, My farm life continues, therefore
now, we have better news to tell you, because we are going to talk about spring
time in the farms.
The very first thing that one notice in spring
is that everything around you is nice and green; wherever you turn you can see
this happening right in front of your eyes, and that is a wonderful thing to
see all these plants and grasses growing.
So, dear readers, we hope that this article
will make you forgive us for telling you all that boring farm stuff in our
previous hubs, as we have been talking to you and telling you what happens in
the farm during the year, we know that farm life is boring but it is a life
that some of us happen to have lived, and if we want to be true to ourselves we
have to tell it just the way that we have lived it. But even in the farm
sometimes life brings good things to say about, so let us hope that you would
enjoy this present article a bit more than the last one.
We can surely say that the only time that
one can say that living in the farm for a short period could be better that
living in town was and is at spring time, because those things that make life
interesting in the farm happen, you see one can observe Mother Nature wonders
as they occur at very close range; and springtime is the time when most of
those wonders occur one after another. Therefore, life in the farm becomes more
interesting and wonderful after a cold winter when finally spring comes, for a
start the warm sun makes just everybody feel happy to be alive, after those
cold winter days that never seemed to end.
For us farmers early in spring when the
weather is fine it is nice and warm to stay outside doing odd jobs, like
preparing the soil in the kitchen garden and planting some seeds that will soon
grow, while we would be doing that we would just imagine how these new plants
will grow and bear fruit in summer; you see in the temperate zone as the days
grow longer and the temperature rises the plants start growing very quickly,
this fact of life even by itself seems to bring some joy after the cold winter
days, not only because we could see the new plants growing quickly, but also
because we would be thinking what the good season would bring to us, when the
time would come to harvest whatever we had planted or we would plant now in
early spring, I know that this seems like dreaming good things, but anyhow let
us see what other good things spring brings with it. .
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spring is very colourful
Some flowers are so pretty and alive
Wonderful spring is here
Wonderful spring is here
During early spring it would be wonderful, if one could be able to forget
all worries in the world, and look at the work of Mother Nature at its best.
You see, today you look at one tree and you wonder whether it is alive or dead,
because its twigs seem really lifeless; but in a few days, when you look at
that same tree again you can see a few flowers and some small leaves on its
twigs, and in a few more days the whole tree will be in flower, and also its
leaves will be growing on its twigs very rapidly, all the trees start flowering
and growing quickly at springtime after winter, also all grass and seedlings
grow faster and everything is greener and full of life, also the birds that
throughout the winter seemed timid and sad, now start to sing and they sound
very happy. In the country there is a change in the air in springtime and
everything and everybody feels happy in spring, there are lots of sunny and
mild days in spring, so the sunshine and the mild days tell you that the
dreadful winter is past, so better times are ahead for the farm people and for
the farm animals as well and this brings a sort of happiness to everybody and
everything.
Of course we in the farm would be still busy to look after the farm
animals, but now it seems not as hard as in winter times and the weather is
usually fine, in spring times every day that go past the weather becomes
warmer, so a more relaxed way of life can be enjoyed and there are also other
happy happenings, you see, spring is the season of hope and in spring we start
to harvest many things, there are plenty of vegetables in spring as everything
grows pretty fast, also in the fields things grow fast, there are plenty of
fresh peas, green beans, broad beans just to name a few, the farmers go around
with great hope in their hearts, they hope to harvest plenty of everything,
when they are ready to be harvested.
But even in this happy season so to speak there could be problems; so,
the farmers while dreaming about the good harvest that he may see coming, at
the same time the farmers always look at the sky, as they fear bad weather that
can ruin their crops. This fact of nature could really be a real problem when
stormy weather approaches, as all the work that the framers have done during
the year can be ruined or destroyed in a few minutes. So hope and heartbreak go
hand in hand in the farms and they are there ever present, so even in this
better season it is not an easy life being a farmer, I can tell you that
because I have been there. Here I have to say that this was one of the reasons
why I left farming and migrated to Australia when I was still young, hoping for
a better and easier life in Australia which I did. But now let us go back to
talk about the farm animals, as they are a very important part of farming all
year around, therefore what happens during spring is interesting to know.
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The farm animals
Let us talk about the farm animals and what happens in spring
Dear readers, this article here is the way of life that we are forced to
live, so I am warning you that a part of this article could sound happy, but
there is another part that would sound dreadful, but let us see. First of all,
if we look at what is happening and we think about it, we have to admit that
the ways that Mother Nature has set up for the reproduction of the species is
incredible, and the way of how most natural things happen in the animals world is
almost faultless, for a start most of the farm animals give birth to their
offspring when there is plenty of food to go around, and when mild and fine
weather is usually expected, it is for this reason that in springtime most of
the animals offspring are born, starting from the cows that usually calf once
every year and they make plenty of milk especially when there is plenty of
green food for them to eat, also other animals have their offspring in spring,
the sheep have their lambs, the mares have their foals, and other animals have
also their young’s whatever it is according to their specie.
By observing what we have just said above, we have reasons to believe
that the farm animals are born usually early in spring so that they can grow
big and strong during the spring and summer, so that when the cold weather
comes back they would be able to cope with it easily, this is really how Mother
Nature wants it to be, you see everything is set in a way that all living
things would get the most benefit that they can get, while they can in the good
season, so that is a very good thing to happen.
Now here comes the sorry part that I have warned you about at the
beginning of this article; this is happening because we are forced by necessity
to do it. So don’t get upset and don’t be angry towards the farmers; because,
we the people sometimes do things that go against Mother Nature, as we want to
control everything around us for our own benefit. Sometimes we do very cruel
things also, and one of those cruel things that come to my mind is that we take
away the veal from mother cow, we sell the veal to the butcher who will kill
the veal and sell the meat to the people to eat it, by doing this not only we
get some money from the butcher, but then we can happily milk the cow, so the
poor cow cops it both ways.
You see we take plenty of milk from the cows after selling their veal,
and what we did with most of the milk that we took from the cows and other farm
animals of the farms? We make cheese of course; one of these reasons for making
cheese was that in those times when I was young there wasn’t a real milk market
that you could sell the milk to, so we had to do something with the milk. You
see farming is mostly based in waste not want not, so nothing should go to
waste, therefore we made our own cheese from the milk. So in my next hub I will
be talking about, how we made cheese the old way when I was young. Of course
there is not much to learn there, because things have changed a lot since then,
but nevertheless it was a way of life that we used to live, so let us tell it
as it was then.
See you soon in our hub, Cheese making
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