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Technology and modernisation may have changed many aspects of farming, as with everything else, yet the seasons come and go as they have always done. With the changing seasons the tasks that need to be carried out also continue much as they have done for centuries even if computerised tractors have replaced horse and cart.

The farmer and author A G Street, in his delightful little book Round the Year on the Farm, written over eighty years ago, captures these moments – this is part of his contribution for the month of October.