Photos From Ohio's Amish Country: Spring-34

Here's what's left of the field corn after a long and hard winter in Holmes County.  This is the bottom third of a double corn crib, and I'd guess that this family stored just about the right amount of crop for the livestock to be fed through the winter and spring.  On a modern and mechanized farm in the heartland, this would not represent a significant amount of corn.  But when you consider the labor that was necessary to harvest this corn by hand last autumn, it is a very significant amount indeed.

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