https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/fb1617b8-3a4d-49b3-96ea-956f45af770d Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com " Life On The Modern Farm" is a 1950 film reviewing the latest scientific advancements in agriculture. This "Forum Edition" of the The March of Time newsreel series was made for classroom and theatrical use. 00:00 The film opens with harvesters working the land, wheat and corn being harvesting wheat and corn into trucks. 01:14 An International T-14 tractor pulls a potato harvester which unloads into a Ford 1/2 ton truck. 01:27 Visitors view exhibits at the Fenimore Farm Farmers Museum in Cooperstown, New York including an 1860s Gilpin sulky plow, hand plows, handmade pitch forks, iron shovels, and potato planters. 01:53 Visitors at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Center in Beltsville, Maryland. 02:10 Pig farmers tend stock in chainlink fence pens. Government scientists measure and weigh the sows. 02:27 They examine processed meat for fat quality. They study turkey meat, genetically creating a more marketable product. 02:51 The Farm Club of New York’s annual field day at Henry D. Mercer’s Hominey Hill Farms in Colts Neck, New Jersey. Modern business men learn about the profitability of modern farming applications. They review Jersey cows and bulls, learn the benefits of modern breeding, growth and development of cows. 03:42 On John Walker’s farm in Licking County, Ohio, son Jack Walker drives a Farmall H tractor holding a baby on his lap. He tends to his prize bull, Buckeye Dreamer, who won 5th place at the 1948 Ohio State Fair. A farmer attaches milking machine hoses to cows for milking. 04:50 Walker and a county agricultural agent study the health of field grass. 05:14 At the farm house, Frida Walker cooks in a modern, all-electric kitchen. 05:27 She retrieves foodstuffs from a modern International Harvester freezer, retrieves milk and tends to cooking on the stove. 06:06 John and Frida share a meal with sons Leland and Don. 06:35 Eldest son Jack relaxes at home his wife Betty and son Gary. Betty washes the baby at the bathroom sink. 07:07 Jack and Betty climb into a Buick Roadmaster and drive away. 07:33 A tractor pulls a combine harvester through a field, harvesting wheat. 07:43 Workers transfer oats from the back of a pick up truck to a conveyer belt. 07:55 Workers in a corn field assess the bumper crop. 08:03 A field baler picks up and collects hay. A team of four bind the bales and load them onto a flat cart. 08:28 Farmer John oils his Farmall H tractor. 08:36 The Marietta Concrete Corporation builds a modern silo. 09:05 Kiwanis Club meeting at Newark, Ohio; Farmer John speaks. 09:28 Frida and Betty Walker shop for textiles and household goods. 09:48 Leland and Mona Potter climb into a second hand Plymouth; drink sodas at Buckeye Lake. 10:28 Citizens attend Licking County Fair. 4-H Club members exhibit animals they’ve raised. Girls display clothes they’ve made by hand. 11:12 Don grooms his prize calf with livestock clippers. 11:35 A young child plays with a calf on the farm. 12:01 John reviews accounts with Frida who mends clothes. 12:20 A collection of Farm Journal, American Agriculturalist, and Country Gentleman magazines. 12:24 A farm journalist road trip to collect facts for an article, interviewing farmers in Connecticut, Nebraska, and Louisiana about various problems they face. 13:55 The journalist types his article. 14:02 A bulldozer positions piles of potatoes while workers shovel bushels of surplus wheat into temporary storehouses. 14:46 Fertilizer is sprayed over crops. 15:05 Gasoline is pumped from a truck into a farmer’s storage tank. 15:29 The Walkers climb into the family car and drive from home. 15:37 They worship at church. 15:59 Jack and his son ride along the farm on a Farmall H tractor. 16:09 End. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. 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