Change in the Farm

This 1934 volume collects some of the relics of past generations of farmers, farmyards and traditional agricultural methods.

Thomas Hennell (Author)

9781107651401, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 February 2012

224 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.34 kg

First published in 1934, and reissued in a second edition in 1936, this volume by Thomas Hennell was intended to collect and arrange some of the relics of past generations of farmers, farmyards and traditional agricultural methods. In addition to sixteen detailed and descriptive chapters on the changing nature of the farm, the volume offers an abundance of illustrations and diagrams by the author, depicting a variety of farmyard implements and pastoral scenes from across the British Isles.

Preface
1. The farmhouse
2. Cowman and dairy
3. The carter and the stable
4. Hedges and ditches
5. Signs of the weather
6. Ploughing
7. Sowing
8. Mowing with scythes
9. Harvesting in the old style
10. Stacking and rick-making
11. Making spicks
12. Threshing
13. Cider-making
14. Flax
15. Turf-cutting
16. Mole-catching.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]