Six Vintage Pictures of Farmers Planting
By Andrew Amelinckx
on April 12, 2015
It's the season for planting in many places so we thought we'd give our readers a taste of how farmers did the job in an earlier, less high-tech time.
Farmers in North Carolina prepare a field in preparation for the 1936 spring planting season.
A tenant farmer and his family outside of Danville, Virginia, prepare to plant tobacco.
In this photograph from 1936, a farmer plants corn in Lancaster County, Nebraska.
A man sows seed by hand at the American Colony in Jerusalem in the early 1900s.
A New Hampshire farmer sorts his beans in preparation for spring planting in 1940.
A farmer in a U.S. federal rural rehabilitation program prepares to plant corn in Jefferson County, Kansas.
Photos courtesy of the Library of Congress
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