20 Farm Horses From the Past - Modern Farmer

20 Farm Horses From the Past

Goat Week ended last Friday, and we’re finally ready to celebrate other animals again. All thanks to the Library of Congress, for giving us a bumper crop of vintage farm horses doing their thing. Enjoy! [mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Horse on farm during wheat harvest, central Ohio, ca. 1938.[/mf_h5]   [mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Plowing with ten-horse team. Ryken […]

Goat Week ended last Friday, and we’re finally ready to celebrate other animals again. All thanks to the Library of Congress, for giving us a bumper crop of vintage farm horses doing their thing. Enjoy!

Horses 6[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Horse on farm during wheat harvest, central Ohio, ca. 1938.[/mf_h5]

 

Horses 7[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Plowing with ten-horse team. Ryken farm, Hardin County, Iowa, ca. 1939.[/mf_h5]

 

Horses 8[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Horses raised more for show than work. Seabrook Farm, Bridgeton, New Jersey, ca. 1942.[/mf_h5]

 

Horses 9[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Johnny Gaynor driving a team of horses. Gaynor farm, near Fairfield, Vermont, ca. 1941.[/mf_h5]

 

Horses 10[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Finish line of farm boys’ horse race. This was supposed to be a boys race but the girls wanted to be in it too so they were included. Vale, Oregon, ca. 1941.[/mf_h5]

 

Horses 13[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Farm scene. Buffalo County, Nebraska, ca. 1903.[/mf_h5]

 

Horse 20[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Work Horse Parade: horse and delivery wagon. New York City, ca. 1908.[/mf_h5]

 

Horses 14[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Horse-drawn potato digger on the farm of a FSA (Farm Security Administration) client. Near Caribou, Maine, ca. 1940.[/mf_h5]

 

Horses 15[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Taking the horses into new barn after hauling water on Clinton Gilbert’s farm. Woodstock, Vermont, ca. 1940.[/mf_h5]

 

Horses 16[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Stacking alfalfa on a farm. Buffalo County, Nebraska, ca. 1903.[/mf_h5]

 

Horses 17[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Sheepherder on his horse. Ouray County, Colorado, ca. 1940.[/mf_h5]

 

Horses 19[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]One man/one horse methods are rare in California. Between Laton and Fowler, central San Joaquin Valley, California, ca. 1935.[/mf_h5]

 

Horses 20[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Cowboy on horse. Bean Day Rodeo, Wagon Mound, Mew Mexico, ca. 1939[/mf_h5]

 

Horses1[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Horse farm in Bluegrass country. Fayette County, Kentucky, ca. 1940.[/mf_h5]

 

Horses2-[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Mr. Arthur Wolf’s team of horses on his farm. North Branford, Connecticut, ca. 1940.[/mf_h5]

 

Horses3[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Horses on a breeding farm. Detroit (vicinity), Michigan, ca. 1943.[/mf_h5]

 

Horses4[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Farm boy and horse. East of Lowell, Vermont, ca. 1936.[/mf_h5]

 

Horses5[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Horses on farm during wheat harvest. Central Ohio, ca. 1938.[/mf_h5]

 

Horses22[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Soldiers of a cavalry machine gun platoon going over an obstacle during a field problem. Fort Riley, Kansas, ca. 1942.[/mf_h5]

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