• there are 15 men hiding in this field, can you find them? - Dinosaur Dan
  • There is now a Wal-Mart here and a Home Depot and a Best Buy, a Costco, Target and McDonalds. - V✈
  • These are shocks. "Handmade" shocks. Binders drawn by horses, later by tractors, tossed out bundles of grain tied with twine. People - men, often women, often children, followed the binders, gathered up the bundles and built shocks. Maybe six bundles in a circle, on end, with two as caps on top. - crippenraymond
  • These are what are left of the stems of the grain - stubble. After the grain is taken away, this is a stubble field. Torture: walking barefoot in a stubble field. Kids learned not to. - crippenraymond
  • The most common grains in shocks were wheat, oats, barley. Farmers hated working with the barley. The "beards" stuck to sweaty arms, found their way down shirts - and they caused great itching. - crippenraymond
  • Purpose of the bundles on the tops was to protect bundles beneath from wind and rain. - crippenraymond

Typical southeastern Georgia farm with newly harvested field of oats (LOC)

Wolcott, Marion Post,, 1910-1990,, photographer.

Typical southeastern Georgia farm with newly harvested field of oats

1939 May

1 slide : color.

Notes:
 Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
 Oats
United States--Georgia

Format: Slides--Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 11671-9 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34308

Call Number: LC-USF35-119

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    sophia_p, bibliogrrl, hornihelena, screenflat, and 29 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. мʏяιαм70 (52 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Hay Bales Valley, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

    Amazing.

  3. smalltownSK (49 months ago | reply)

    This is only one step of the harvest process. The stooks or shocks still have to be threshed to separate the oats from the chaff.

  4. Simply Frugal (46 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Oats and Oatmeal, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  5. Zsofia Nagy (46 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called HAYSTACKS - 100 members! Celebration!, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

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    Zsofia Nagy: We received your request to have a Library of Congress photo added to your group: HAYSTACKS. Please click on the "Invite this photo to..." link below the comment box and we'll accept it.

  7. Vilseskogen (43 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Economic Botany, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  8. Willi Hossenpheffer (8 months ago | reply)

    I helped harvest wheat, oats and barley but the worst was barley. After the gain was cut and bundled, we stacked in in shocks to dry for a week or more, then loaded it on wagons and hauled it to the Thrashing Machine. It was a dusty, dirty job but we competed for the fastest wagon record! Will -------- born 1925

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