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Title: CROP / POULTRY HUSBANDRY MISCELLANY

Reference number: 10902

Date: 1935 - 1939

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 17.11 mins

Description: Compilation of various agricultural activities including poultry farming, cutting hay and fertilising fields.

Shotlist: Fertilising field. Gvs chicken coops, chickens flocking in field, henhouse. C/u chicken in battery, c/u egg on wire shelf. Hay gathered onto cart. Women plant seedlings; pair of men plant seedlings. Female work party picking pea pods? man bagging in f/ground. Harvester cuts and ties sheaves; labourers construct stacks. C/u sheep. Horse drawn roller and harrowing. Gvs sowing machine, c/u discs & grain being dispensed; man demonstrates engaging and disengaging discs. Cutting a hay? field by scythe, gathering onto cart. Spreading liquid fertiliser? from horse-drawn cart; c/u engine. Fertilising? Harrowing. Man uses long arm attached to drill to space drills out. Women spread dung. Cattle feeding indoors. [Time lapse] chick hatches; c/u chicks. Collecting stones. Mowing. Gathering hay/ building stacks. [colour] Moving stack using tractor. [bw] Moving stack using conveyor. Hand cutting sheaves, making band to tie the sheaf. Mixing water into feed? Moving chicken coop; feeding chickens; c/u water tin and feeder; older coop on wheels. Barrel mounted on cart. Woman feeds eggs into grader? Another woman places eggs in trays, weighs each, recording results in ledger; c/u chicks, heat lamp and switch?