Picking Potatoes Mr. and Mrs. George MacInnis and their son picking potatoes. Photo courtesy of Claire Logan.

Farms grew their own feed for cattle, which at one time consisted of turnips, mangles, and corn, which all had to be weeded by hand. Grain was cut by binders, stooked, and stacked in the fields until the thresher came around. Grain binders, which came about at this time eliminated the harvest reaper and the tedious work of binding by hand sheaves of grain with pieces of straw.

Threshing machine Photo courtesy of Hubert MacIsaac.

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