TURNIP GROWING IN THE LOTHIANS
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Title: TURNIP GROWING IN THE LOTHIANS
Reference number: 10875
Date: 1935 - 1937
Sound: silent
Original format: 16mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 11.21 mins
Description: Agricultural film demonstrating the different stages of growing turnips.
Credits: p. staff of the Agricultural Department, Edinburgh University
Shotlist: Title. ocs c/u tractor engine, drive shaft and turning blades of unid. machine 4. SOWING OF LIME. 5. SOWING OF BASIC SLAG. 6 SOWING OF ARTIFICIAL MANURE. 7. APPLICATION OF DUNG IN THE DRILL Gvs 4, 5 & 6 using horse drawn hopper. C/u machinery, moving and partly dismantled. 8. DRILL MAKING FOR ROOTS 9. SOWING - A. BY MACHINE WITH ROLLERS, B> BY MACHINE WITH ATTACHMENT FOR SOWING NITROGENEOUS MANURE WITH SEED. 10. ROLLING DRILLS AFTER SOWING gvs same, with close shots rolling. Gvs men remove excess seedlings from furrows. Ws group working on furrows. Brief shot ploughing furrows; men weeding with hoes. Women harvest turnips. Black section. Men knock roots together then remove leaves. Group collect roots into cart. Men organise roots into clamp. C/u roots. Pans along groups of lorries, each being emptied into rail carriages?; c/u channel carrying water away.