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2/. We have had very little frost this winter and scarcely a flake of snow. Altogether it has been very mild and we are well forward with our work on the land. The autumn sown wheat looks well also the winter beans. We are well forward with our spring ploughing and we having a dry warm spell of weather at the moment. In all probability we shall start sowing Oats tomorrow. We have 24 acres to put in altogether and if the weather hlds they will be in by the end of the week. We shall then have the barley to sow. We should have been ready to put this in before now only the lambs ([feeding?] sheep) are still on the ground clearing up the sugar beet tops. We shall get them off by this time next week and so long