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Farm
labourers: Farm labourers started their working
life as children and were expected to assist wherever possible.
Sowing oats by hand in the Langdale Valley, Cumbria (formerly Westmorland).
When experienced
and working full time the labourer would be able to turn his hand to a
wide range of tasks - seed sowing, hoeing and weeding, mowing, spreading
dung, threshing after the harvest and hedging and ditching during the
winter months. The farm labourer, therefore, had to be very versatile.
He also needed to be fit and strong as the tools he used were generally
heavy and the jobs tiring.
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