AYRSHIRE EARLY POTATOES
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Title: AYRSHIRE EARLY POTATOES
Reference number: 2744
Date: 1948
Sound: silent
Original format: 16mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Description: The sowing and harvesting of Ayrshire potatoes including shots of "tattie howkers" at work.
Credits: A Firth Film
Shotlist:
REEL 1
Credits (0.05) gvs map of Ayrshire (0.47) Planting begins in February gvs same with horse-drawn plough (1.40) Manures are sown and drills are opened gvs same (2.03) gvs seed potatoes being sown (3.34) gvs hoeing of weeds by horse, hand and tractor (5.26) gvs "tattie howkers" digging up crop (6.50)
REEL 2
gvs mechanical potato diggers (1.18) gvs potatoes being bagged and transported (2.54) gvs seed potatoes selected, and stored under straw and in boxes (7.12) gvs labourers leaving in back of farm lorry (7.37) ecs (7.40)