History of American Farm --The Pageant of the Farm
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- čas přidán 28. 04. 2015
- In the 1950s Portland Cement company produced this film to show how its cement products were making modern farm life cleaner and more efficient.
At the same time they created a wonderful capsule history of farm life in America from the Ox driven plows to modern tractors.
Beautiful barns, cotton fields, plows, antebellum plantations, covered wagons, the great plains, stagecoaches, riverboats, barns off all kinds, oxen, carriages, harvest wheat with thresher, pitch forks, hoes, blacksmith, Civil War cannon, more horsepower for wagons and threshers, cows, milking, steam powered tractors, a Mercer Raceabout, gasoline powered tractors, big agriculture and shipping of produce in modern 50s America. Hogs, cows, dairy barns and large facilities were popping up and the face of agriculture changed as the family farm started to vanish. Simple log cabins were long gone.
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Can you imagine how hard this way of life would be. In high school we had 4 guys on our football team. They were dariy farmers. They worked every day of their lives. Didn't work didn't eat. All were strong as a bull. We need more of this in our country. Can you imagine yelling at your mom or dad, I CAN'T WORK CAUSE I GOT A NEW VIDEO GAME? LOL. NEAL
Thanks for posting this! Pretty fascinating.
This certainly shows how values change from generation to generation. In the 1950s people were more aware of natural diseases than we are, but less aware of the effects of chemicals. Also, anything new, progressive, and efficient was good. Today people distrust anything modern (and especially anything "big!"), and expect all the modernity and bigness to destroy the world. But remember this: no generation is in the position to judge all others; none of us stands outside the historical process enough to be truly objective.
Betuful vedio, Betuful Agriculture farms
Real Interesting to see how machines replaced hand labor and milking machines with cooling systems and sanitary measures produced much safer and higher quality milk. The evolution of farm and agriculture practices is complex and has evolved over many years to produce more and better quality products to feed the over 300 million people we have in America today. Our farmers export their products world wide to help feed a hungry world.
I like farms
like it reason great improvement,
there plenty of farms in the south, plantations were big but far from the only thing around
Most farmers didn't own slaves.
No argument here about the merits of concrete, a bit pricey these days is all. However the claim that the demise of horse powered farming "freed up acres" to feed people instead of the horses, is typical of the misunderstanding the majority of people have of how soil works. They do at least admit that the chemicals and fertiliser they began dumping on the soil was necessary to force the soil to produce more. The quantity of manure produced by the horses, and the healthy sods required both for pasture and hay production to feed those horses, combined with the almost complete lack of soil compaction compared to wheeled tractors, were actually a net benefit to every farm. The giddiness and optimism with which farmers, egged on by big business, sent their horses off to slaughter and went into debt to buy tractors and the equipment for them, is based on a superficial and compartmentalised view of both man's relationship to the earth, the soil, and the whole natural world, and also his relationship to other people and future generations. Regenerative holistic agriculture and logging requires a mature, somewhat skeptical, regard for the mid-century giddiness and optimism where chemicals, big pharma, and big government, were seen as the saviours of the world's hungry masses. I think we will come back to a more sustainable way of life, but it will take a catastrophe to wake people up.
eventfull and exciting is not how i would describe the vold war
Just what I want to eat: junkie beef.
Subliminal Concrete
I love it when people say they eat nothing but antibiotics free meat. There are non. The saying goes in the farming community is antibiotic free livestock are dead livestock.
i like how they skipped the slavery part
You're a moron.
Right. And when the first settlers arrived "the land was free." Sure, if you don't factor in those native Americans who were already here.
@@kesmarn And those Native Americans were already fighting each other for land. It was a free for all.
Reply to Brad not Landa
The continent was virtually vacated from infectious diseases. That was totally unavoidable. The colonists had about 54 antibody families and natives have only had 26. Whenever they met, the natives would have died. There was greater population density in pre Columbian America than in Europe.
Earliest accounts discuss how EVERY valley in all New England was fully inhabited. When Ponce DeLeon went up Appalachia from Florida and then down the Ohio/Mississippi river, everyplace was inhabited. They never went more than 3 miles down the rivers without seeing a village.
Just sayin'
@@kesmarn
You mean the Indians who sold their land (which was never permanently settled anyway) for shiny beads and whiskey?
And now we need to move away from industrial farms. The worm always turns.
No mention of slavery. At least they mentioned the land was FREE to the first people, or that the land did belong to Native Americans.
No mention of how there were in 1900 20 million, and why today there’s only 2 million.
They should mention that there were 50 million immigrants (?) between 1850 and 1950.
And they came to houseless USA , and where they lived , and how many were homeless still today because they never have built enough “housing units”!
antibiotics, and what else? Confined animals that never see the sun...how glorious!! Do you think??
This is doc is over 40 yrs old..things have changed sum since then believe it or not
Looks like we have a liberal snowflake here!
@@BlanketyBlank9050 if compassion for an animal's suffering (being confined and abused) makes me a snowflake... Then what the hell does that make you. A godless, heartless sack of skin?
Move over old timers. It's a new day.