- 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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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.
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.
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!
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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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!
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