Author: Stephen Caunce
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326768077
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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This book is a unique and detailed account of a rural way of life formed from extensive academic research and oral testimony recorded in the 1970's. It tells of the farm servant system in East Yorkshire which was central to the rural economy in that area for men born before 1900. Boys as young as 13 would be looking after and working with as many as 4 heavy horses in a team. Their lives would be spent living in the farmhouse and would continue that way until they married. Rural history forms an essential part of national history, with different parts of the UK having very varied employment systems. This book describes how, although having roots deep in history, the East Riding farming system was thoroughly modern and profitable, paying good wages to its workers. Telling the stories of their lives in their own words, this book brings to life the intimate details of a distant way of living and working.
Author: Stephen Caunce
Publisher: Sutton Publishing
ISBN: 9780862998752
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 243
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Author: Jerry Apps
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 0870205366
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 215
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Before tractors or steam engines arrived on the farm, horses did all the heavy work. From spring plowing to the fall harvest, the mighty draft horse powered farms across the Midwest. Relied upon to complete a multitude of tasks, including towing threshing machines and plows, hauling milk to the local cheese factory, and pulling the family buggy to church each Sunday, these animals were at the center of farm life, cementing the bond between human and horse. Horse-Drawn Days: A Century of Farming with Horses captures stories of rural life at a time when a team of horses was a vital part of the farm family. Author Jerry Apps pairs lively historic narrative with reminiscences about his boyhood on the family farm in Wisconsin to paint a vivid picture of a bygone time. Featuring fascinating historic photos, ads, and posters, plus contemporary color photos of working horses today, Horse-Drawn Days evokes the majesty of these animals and illuminates the horse’s role in our country’s early history and our rural heritage.
Author: Royal Agricultural Society of England
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 658
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Vols. for 1933- include the societys Farmers' guide to agricultural research.
Author: C. Bryner Jones
Publisher:
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Category : Domestic animals
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Author: Robert Oliphant Pringle
Publisher:
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Category : Domestic animals
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Author: Jane Flynn
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000030385
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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The soldier-horse relationship was nurtured by The British Army because it made the soldier and his horse into an effective fighting unit. Soldiers and their Horses explores a complex relationship forged between horses and humans in extreme conditions. As both a social history of Britain in the early twentieth century and a history of the British Army, Soldiers and their Horses reconciles the hard pragmatism of war with the imaginative and emotional. By carefully overlapping the civilian and the military, by juxtaposing "sense" and "sentimentality," and by considering institutional policy alongside individual experience, the soldier and his horse are re-instated as co-participators in The Great War. Soldiers and their Horses provides a valuable contribution to current thinking about the role of horses in history.
Author: Robert Scott Burn
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1318
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Author: Henry J. Webb
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 688
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Languages : en
Pages : 730
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