How You Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm?*

In researching old tractors for my previous post, I came across some great films showing life on the farm "back in the day" which have many scenes of farm machinery in action.

The first two are silent:

[Farming: "Feeding the World" circa 1918 / Neighborhood Motion Picture Service]

[Farmer Miller Goes Into High Gear, 1920s]

Here's a 1939 ad for Farmall tractors:

[FARMALL M H 1930s Sales video]

A 1942 patriotic black farmer on his 40-acre farm in Georgia:

[Henry Browne, Farmer 1942 USDA Farmers' Contributions to War Effort during World War II]

*This is the title of a popular World War I song:

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