Life on a Farm before the advent of tractors relied on horse-drawn equipment and the skills and labor of many people, as the detailed drawings in this fascinating book reveal.
Cousins, Curator of Agriculture at Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village, has written an informative introduction and provided fact-filled captions for this entertaining and educational view of Life in bygone rural America..
Peter H.
Based on scenes re-created on the Firestone Farm at historic Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan, the drawings include authentically detailed views of kitchen chores (churning butter, preparing foods); seasonal occupations (shearing sheep, mowing hay, gathering pumpkins, ``harvesting`` and ``sugaring off`` maple syrup), as well as plowing, planting, caring for livestock, splitting firewood, raising a barn, and many other activities.
Smith, 43 ready-to-color illustrations depict a wide variety of Farm Activities in mid-nineteenth-Century America.
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Accurately rendered by A.
Life on a Farm before the advent of tractors relied on horse-drawn equipment and the skills and labor of many people, as the detailed drawings in this fascinating book reveal
