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Title: GENERAL AGRICULTURE 2

Reference number: 10881

Date: 1937 - 1948

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 17.41 mins

Description: Compilation of footage of agricultural practices, including the harvesting of a variety of crops.

Shotlist: Men using hoes to knock seedlings off the furrow. Tractor-drawn machine, clearing troughs between furrows? Massey Harris combine harvester. Tractor drawn machine rolls discs between furrows of broad leafed crop. Women remove seedlings using hoes [col] Women pick pea pods. [bw] Removing nettles using piece of sacking to protect hand. Spreading lime? Gathering hay with a "Tummlin' Tam" hayrake, building a haystack. Ploughing between furrows. Hoeing field. Collecting small haystack on rake. Building big haystack. Haystacks in snow. Kale and leeks? in snow. Hay gathering, using hay rake and pitch fork. Pulling spring onions. Women load sacks onto cart, men empty sacks of beets? into pile, cover with sacking then soil. Rolling field. Women hoe and weed field. Pipe structure dispensing jets of water? onto field; c/u jet. Selecting seedlings. Women and children potato picking; picking leeks. Row of sugar beet? Women tie up allium seed heads; man removes stalks. women potato picking. Harrowing. Burning gorse. Dunging fields. Women removing seedlings by hand. Potato picking; man sorts potatoes. men hoeing cabbages? Man rolls blades through soil horizontally in line. ploughing between furrow intercut brief shots weeding?