Wheat farm and field in Ohio United States. Men work in wheat farm. A woman and children view vegetable produce for sale by two boy farm workers at a road-side stand. Heaps of harvested crops in field. A man and children look at carved pumpkin jack o'lanterns and people shop at a farmer's market area. Dairy farm and cattle grazing in the field. Men bring prize horses from stable. Men with horses walk in field. Men working in pottery manufacturing unit. Potter's wheel and clay pot is seen and porcelain tableware manufacturing in East Liverpool, Zanesville, and Cambridge. Woman checks the pile of plates while man paints plates by hand. Two boys stand on stairs outside the Ohio Company Land Office, a wooden building which the narrator says was erected in 1788 and is the oldest building in Marietta, Ohio. Busy streets of Toledo, Ohio, with shops and office buildings along main streets and car traffic on streets. Men work in glass factory. Man blows glass and molds the glass in different shapes by blowing glass. View of Akron. A man and women working in rubber factory in Akron, Ohio. Huge rubber tires and tubes are seen.
A documentary film from the Rural Electrification Administration: "Power and the Land" about the lack of electric power in rural areas such as St. Clairsville, Ohio. Men with lamp walk on a pathway at dawn. A man feeds the cattle while another one is seen milking a cow in the light of a lamp. A woman pumps water, starts her work and children do their work in the dim light of la amp. Scenes of horses grazing in the field.
From a documentary film about the lack of electricity in rural areas of the United States. Man milking a cow. Herding cattle. Views of rolling hill pasture land. Boy exiting outhouse. Barrels of milk being loaded on truck for sale, but due to lack of refrigeration, farmers face rejections of some milk in St. Clairsville, Ohio. Man collects milk in bucket, fills the calibrated barrels and tries to keep them cool. Men load barrels on to a truck. At a dairy, men off load milk barrels and separate the rejected milk barrels. A paper with number of rejected barrels shown to the man. Pigs drink rejected milk.
Lack of electricity creates difficulties for farmers in St. Clairsville, Ohio. Man cuts log into pieces by hand and splits wood. Two men bring out a horse driven wagon into a field.
Due to lack of electricity in a rural setting, people work by hand in St. Clairsville, Ohio. Woman heats water over fire in a huge container. A girl adds wood to fire. Woman washes clothes by hands while the girl cleans and fills kerosene in the lamp. (World War II period).
Farmers face difficulties in farming on sunny days in St. Clairsville, Ohio. Man on a horse driven wagon works with hay. Man drinks water to quench his thirst. Man walks around the farm in search of a shade. A boy comes running towards the man in field. Man waves his hat in order to get some air. Boy passes by the field.
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