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A young boy and a woman from a poor farm family live in poverty and dilapidated shacks, United States.
Destitute children from poor migrant farm families play near dilapidated houses and tent communities and shacks during the Great Depression in America. A poverty stricken woman stitches and sews in a tent. A sick young boy moves his hands in his sleep as he thinks he's picking peas, while his mother watches over him at his bedside in a tent or shack.
African American and foreign migrant workers climb into trailers to pick cotton; a farmer operates an automated cotton picker
Wide views of cotton fields with hills in the background, in the United States. Tents in the field for migrant farm labor workers during the Great Depression. Automobiles and carts nearby. A truck with trailers attached halts on a road. African American and foreign migrants, (Mexican and/or Latin American, primarily) climb into the trailers. Men, women and children cotton pickers picking cotton by hand. A farmer operates an automated cotton picker in a cotton field, showing how automation is displacing hand labor for cotton picking. The picked cotton held in the machine.
Trees are felled to clear land during massive expansion of farming and a carrot harvester at work in the United States.
A man drives a bulldozer to fell trees during the Great Depression in America. A woman with children watches the logging operation. The bulldozer clears trees and rocks from the land. Trees are felled and uprooted to create more farm land (ultimately leading to overproduction of crops, drops in prices, and depression conditions for farmers). Boxes full of carrot in a truck. A carrot harvester picks carrots in a field. Men tie up the carrots together. Men and women workers stand and watch the machine at work. Workers seated on and around boxes of carrots. An African American worker lights a cigarette. An elderly migrant from the Cumberland Mountains. Expansive views of the Cumberland Mountains and a farm house on a mountain side. A house, horses, hens, ducks and a cow with her calf on the farm. A stern wheel paddle steamer steam ship or river boat moves up a river. Two workers operate machines at a grinding mill or grist mill with water wheel running. A man operates a horse wheel. Elevated views of a river flowing in a valley between mountains and nearby farmland. Tall grass in a field.
Farmers sort wheat yield transported in cargo ships. and work to stock pile corn in a ever-normal granary in the United States.
Factories on river banks during late 1930s in the Great Depression. Wheat yield from 15000 acres of field in a single cargo ship underway. Men operate machines to sort and separate wheat. Wheat harvesters at work. Smoke from stacks. Close up views of faces of young girl and boy children from poverty stricken farming families. Farmers work at a ever-normal granary where they stock pile corn to store their crop and to stabilize farm crop prices as part of a buffer stock scheme. Vast reserves in the ever-normal granary stored by farmers to preserve a market for their crop in the face of overproduction and glut in the market for wheat driving down prices. A farmer inspects and tastes corn that is being loaded by machine belt into top of a storage granary silo.
A shepherd and cowboys watch over their herds in the mountains of United States.
An elderly farmer shepherd sits on a wagon with his Border Collie sheep dog nearby. A large flock of sheep graze on a hill. Tree covered mountains. Cowboys on horseback watch over their herd of cows in terrain that appears to be western United States, during Great Depression era. A sheep dog near a cowboy. Cows graze on hills.
Farmers work in patterned fields and terrace farms in the United States during Great Depression.
Cargo ships with wheat yield underway off shore. Smoke from the ship stacks. Industrial areas and wheat fields. Farm land and terrace farms. Farmers with horses work on farms and in fields. Cattle graze in fields. Patterned fields to hold the soil. Patterned land enriched with phosphate. Farmers talk about their land and farming problems, and share experience on farming methods to retain soil, learned from hard experiences during the Dust Bowl. Farming and farmland in the Carolinas, Oregon, New Mexico, Indiana, Texas Plains and parts of the Northwest United States. Houses in Pennsylvania. A farmer with his wife and child look over their farm. Wide views of tilled farm land. People in a farm community stand outside a food distribution area and wait for government supplied food aid (bread line) during Great Depression. Machines at work in fields and on farms.