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• MODERN FARMING: AGRICULTURE IN BRITAIN, 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

  Two agricultural workers operate their combine harvester on a sunny wheat field in Hampshire. The self-propelled harvester covers three processes in one: it cuts the corn, separates the wheat and pours it into sacks, and discharges the straw on the...

• MODERN FARMING: AGRICULTURE IN BRITAIN, 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

  A 'pick-up baler' at work in a Hampshire field. The job of this machine is to follow behind the combine harvester and gather up the straw. This straw is then passed up a conveyor to a baling machine, which presses the straw into bales. One...

• MODERN FARMING: AGRICULTURE IN BRITAIN, 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

  A large hay rick stands in the sun on a Hampshire farm. According to the original caption, the bales of this rick were made by the 'pick-up baler', and are of a very good size for easy handling a stacking. The straw will later be used for cattle...

• MODERN FARMING: AGRICULTURE IN BRITAIN, 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

  Edward Raines, poultryman on a Hampshire farm, moves a poultry fold into line with the others in the field. Each of these chicken 'sheds' contains 25 birds. They are moved their length every day, providing fresh ground for the hens to feed on and also...

• MODERN FARMING: AGRICULTURE IN BRITAIN, 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

  Agricultural workers operate a tractor-drawn 'Cutlift' machine in a clover field in Hampshire. This machine can be used to cut any green crop. Once cut, the crop passes up the conveyor and is dropped into the trailer. It can then be taken to a silo...

• Italian Prisoners-of-war Working on the Land

  (art) Made by: Ford, Michael 1942

  image: View across an onion field in autumn with sixteen Italian prisoners-of-war gathering in the crop, supervised by a single British soldier at the near edge of the field. The PoWs are wearing clothing marked with a distinctive red spot on the jackets...

• Land Work in War-time - Portfolio of four lithographs The Land Army Growing Vegetables for the Navy

  (art) Made by: Hartrick, Archibald Standish (OBE) 1940

  image: Land girls harvesting cabbages. A group of women stand in a field close to the coast. In the background there is a ship out at sea, and the Isle of Wight lies in the distance.

• MODERN FARMING: AGRICULTURE IN BRITAIN, 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

  Two agricultural workers sit on a tractor-drawn trailer with the large sacks of grain they have just collected from a sunny field in Hampshire. A third worker drives the tractor which will take the grain to be weighed, dried and then ground into flour.

• MODERN FARMING: AGRICULTURE IN BRITAIN, 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

  Cows are milked by machine on a farm in Hampshire. The cattle herd consists of 40 pedigree Ayrshires and Dairy Shorthorns, tended by the Neill family. The milk is drawn through tubes from the cow using a vacuum pump, and it then passes into a sealed...