SPRING --

* Constantly take care of dairy cows (and milk them), horses and any other animals on the farm.

* Cover the strawberries in mid-March.

* Put manure on the garden and in the fields.

* Plow the fields.

* Turn cows out to pasture, early to mid-April.

* Give the barn a good, thorough cleaning out (get all the manure out), now that the cows are out (this will help eliminate the flies and prevent disease for the animals).

* Sow oats and seed hay in April.

* Plow the garden and work it up.

* Build new fences and repair the old ones; put in any gates that are needed.

* Go mushroom hunting in the woods.

* Plant corn during the first half of May.

* Cut hay, late May to late June.

SUMMER --

* Constantly take care of dairy cows (and milk them), horses and any other animals on the farm.

* Cut barley in late June; thrash it later.

* Cultivate corn (and hope it gets "knee-high by the Fourth of July").

* Clip the pastures with sickle-bar mower to keep the weeds from going to seed.

* Cut wheat around the 4th of July.

* Harvest oats in late July.

* Go berry picking along the fence rows, by the side of the roads, and in the woods.

* Take time to enjoy the evening "show," as fireflies rise from the hay and oat fields and from the meadows.

FALL --

* Constantly take care of dairy cows (and milk them), horses and any other animals on the farm.

* Fill the silos in September (cut corn with binder, tie in bundles, load on wagon and take to silo filler).

* Put corn in shocks in October (this corn will be for the corn crib).

* Plow and seed winter wheat in September.

* Bring cows in from the summer pasture and put in the barn.

* Cut, split and bring firewood in from woods (dead wood can be brought in now; fresh-cut needs to season for a year); probably need four to five cord this year.

* Enjoy the fullness of an Indian Summer day.

WINTER --

* Constantly take care of dairy cows (and milk them), horses and any other animals on the farm.

* Grind feed for the animals.

* Take manure out of the barn.

* If the ground is frozen but there's not too much snow, bring in more firewood from the woods.

* Get farm machinery in shape for next planting season; fix any broken parts.

* Attend local weekly auctions or any special auctions, such as the machinery auction.

* Put out bird feeders, keep them full and record the many types of birds seen.

* Rest up a little and get ready for Spring to begin.