The start of the 1931 Ford Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour at the Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan, on Sunday July 4th 1931. Opening footage at forefront right shows the Gee Bee model E Sportster flown by Lowell Bayles to a fourth place finish. Forefront center-left is the Great Lakes biplane flown by Joeseph Meehan. A number of various aircraft are parked on the airfield, including an autogyro. Visitors on the airport ramp look at airplanes on display. The museum clock tower and other buildings at Greenfield Village are visible in the background. View looking outward from inside a hanger. A squadron of U.S. Army Air Corps Boeing P-12 pursuit airplanes parked in rows, with propellers all set horizontally. A light high wing monoplane takes off followed, successively, by two Ford trimotor passenger aircraft equipped with wheel pants. View of a biplane landing. A crowd standing in front of a hangar and several officials standing in the grass. People posing on the ramp with airport building in background.
Soybean cultivation in Harbin, Manchuria, China. A farmer walking in a field holding a vessel of soybean seeds and putting the seeds across the field. The spread out field in view. Two farmers in the field. Foot power is often used in place of a roller before seeding. One of the farmers walking on the ridges of the field and the other farmer walking behind him sowing the seeds. View of the seeds spread on the field. A four horse team pulling a plow in the field to cover the seeds. The ridges rolled on the field pulled by a horse after the seeds are sown. A farmer walking beside the horse. Sprouted seedlings across the field. Several farmers on the field during the first cultivation. Horse pulled plows on the field and the farmers during the subsequent cultivations.
Soybean cultivation in Harbin, Manchuria, China. A soybean field in Harbin. Two officials from Chinese Eastern Railway Experiment Station inspecting the soybean field. The officials looking at the soybean plants in the field. An official holding a few figs of a plant. The officials holding the plants with the pods. An official pointing to the roots of a well inoculated plant.
Soybean cultivation in Harbin, Manchuria, China. A farmer in a soybean field holding the figs of the plant with soybean pods. A field in the background. The farmer holding a small shovel-like tool with which soybean is harvested. The farmer sharpens the tool before harvesting. The farmer harvesting the crop with the tool. A few farmers in the field during the harvesting. An automatic self-rake reaper drawn by a horse in the field. A horse cart drawn on the field by a farmer. Harvested soybean collected by another farmer and put in the horse cart to be taken to threshing ground. The soybean field after harvest.
Soybean cultivation in Harbin, Manchuria, China. Stacks of soybeans and other grains on threshing ground. A few farmers nearby. Two farmers drawing out stacks of soybeans using a horse. The farmers spread them on the threshing ground. A farmer using horses in the threshing process. Stacks of soybeans and other grains in the background. The horses drawing ridges on the ground threshing the soybean beds. Two men scoop up the seeds from the threshing ground with shovels and drop them and the wind separates the seeds. Hens eating grains in the background. A few men cleaning the ground.
Soybean cultivation in Harbin, Manchuria, China. A few horse drawn carts moving on a path between fields. Farmers taking soybean sacks to a market on horse carts. Several boats with soybean sacks along a coast in Harbin. Several men on the boats. The men unloading soybean sacks from the boats on the coast. Men carrying the sacks and walking over a plank kept from the shore to a boat. The men laying the soybean sacks in rows. Ricks are prepared for soybean by the men. Several men at work. Buildings in view. A train moving on a rail track Several men on the railway tracks beside a soybean collecting center along the Chinese Eastern Railway. The rail tracks beside the collecting center in view.