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SEGMENT: FARMING & ENVIRONMENT
: Audio duration 08:50
Horse Drawn Plows, Plow-Pan, & The Marvel of Tractors
: duration 01:27
Our Forty Acre Farm "was pretty near heaven to us boys."
: duration 00:48
Drainage, Digging Ditches, & Improving Productivity
: duration 01:25
SEGMENT: FARMING METHODS, PESTS, & LIVESTOCK FEED
: Audio duration 12:35
Wheat Pests & Beginning of Experiment Station
: duration 00:57
Hogs & the Grasshopper's Shadow
: duration 01:12
Hills Around Corn: Harrowing & Cultivating
: duration 01:45
Shucking Green Corn & Corn Cribs
: duration 01:28
SEGMENT: FARMING METHODS & FARM EQUIPMENT
: Audio duration 10:35
"I hated fodder!"
: duration 01:14
Before Hay-Balers: Stacking the Hay for Livestock
: duration 00:40
Dragging the Hay to the Horse-Powered Hay Baler
: duration 01:45
SEGMENT: LIVESTOCK, FOOD & MEALS, & WOMEN'S WORK
: Audio duration 11:28
Necessary Livestock For Food & Farming
: duration 01:03
Women's Work: Raising Chickens, Trading Produce at Grocer, & Making Feather Beds
: duration 00:50
SEGMENT: ENVIRONMENT, FARMING METHODS, & GARDEN
: Audio duration 12:58
Hedge Fences
: duration 01:04
We Burned Stalks & Stubble in Fields
: duration 00:23
Burning, Cultivating, & Disking
: duration 00:54
Fertilizing with Horse Manure: Shovels vs. Spreaders
: duration 01:02
Borrowing Farm Equipment
: duration 00:38
The Garden: "...we lived out of it..."
: duration 00:18
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