James Duff's Farm

As a person that has grown most of my own food, without chemicals or engine powered equipment, for the last 15 years and lesser so for many more years I can relate to some degree what it may have been like for a farmer in the 1800’s (I even live in a house built in 1850).

I have always lived on a farm for the majority of my life. Nowadays life now on a farm for me is much more different then how life was back then. The kids back then had it tough too they most likely had to work all day on the fields and your future was already determined once you were born. Just because there was no one else to take over the farm once your dad got too old or incapable to work. So with this said you were going to take up on you fathers trade for the family. Now though everyone has options on what they want to become, but the real question is, is that when you lived on a farm back then was your future almost always guaranteed to become a farmer?

Life on the fields meant working sunup to sundown and worked six days a week. Their behavior and movement was restricted. Slaves lived in small shacks with a dirt floor and little or no furniture. Life on large plantations with a cruel overseer was oftentimes the worst. If slaves had complains that they were being unfairly treated, slaveholders would most often be very protective of their "property" and would release the overseer. Adult male slaves were used to tend the fields, pastures, and gardens. Female slaves and young children usually served as domestic slaves, tending to the master's family as cooks, servants, and housemaids. Most slaves

This involved positions such as maids, cooks or nurses for children. The physical requirements of house servants were certainly easier on the slaves than those who had to work the fields but in some ways the work was harder. While field workers basically had time to themselves and their families after the long work day, house servants were always at the beck and call of their masters.

Some may assume that women had it easy in the 1950s and 1960s, that cooking, cleaning, and looking pretty is nothing compared to a man's long stressful day at work. The main goal for young adults after high school was to seek a husband to provide for her and have children with.After marriage, it was uncommon for women to work so being a full time housewife and tending to her home and kids was normal. Husbands would manage legal documents,bank accounts, and mortgages (The 1950s). Roles for the women in the household involved being on her feet most hours of the day. She would wake up before her husband and children so when they awoke their lunches would be packed and ready to go. When the children are off to school and her husband is off to work, the wife then will clean to make sure the

During the 1900’s, factories had the most available work, though there was some agriculture. Working

Women received anywhere from one third to one half the pay that men received. Children received even less. Children started working as young as four years old. They would work on machines in the factories, selling newspapers on street corners, breaking up coal in coal mines, and as chimney sweeps.

Further down in the South a majority of slaves lived and also worked on cotton plantations, which consisted of 50 or fewer slaves, with some of the largest containing hundreds. Cotton at this time was among the leading cash crops, however rice, and corn, and sugarcane, and tobacco also were raised by African American workers on plantations. lots of different types of work also took place on plantations or on farms. slaves were to clear new land, to dig ditches, cut/move wood, livestock, and repair building tools. Black women carried the burden of caring for their families. Some slaves were able to work indoors, carrying out services for the master's and their families. Know as house servants. They were constantly under surveillance of their

Many foods were only accessible during certain times of the year. Without refrigeration and the many technological advances we have today, food preservation was inconvenient. This increased the demand for food preservation during the 1700s. “Most homes needed a cool place to store root vegetables, fruits, pickles, dairy products, and barrels of salted meat, cider, beer, or wine, and, in cold seasons, fresh meat for short periods of time. House cellars or smaller underground spaces served these needs.

If it wasn’t in farms, then it was out in the hot sun of the fields, or even in factories. Kids were meant to work in their family’s farm, but when it was time to send them to work in other farmer’s farm it was to do so. Working in agriculture was difficult with the extreme temperatures. For some children high temperatures was normal because of how they were used to being out working. Others that worked in factories sometimes dealt with carrying heavy equipment and dangerous tools. Many factories had to do with fire and toxins that many worked around of. Being in factories they were useful due to their size, they’d fit anywhere that adults couldn’t reach into. They were easier to control for how young they were and even though they managed to do most of the work, they were paid less than the adults. All minors had long hours to work every day for such little pay. Sometimes hours reached at least ten to fourteen and didn’t give them much break that was supposed

They said their mother had instructed them to sell tomatoes in the market as she also sell 'Githeri' at a small kiosk she owns in the market to make double profits to get the daily bread.

First, the 1700 Ioway Indian Farm and 1900 Horse Farm differed in the types of crops they grew. For instance, Ioway farmers raised corn, beans, and squash. Ears of corn were hung from poles or spread on platforms to dry. Also, they would leave beans to dry on the vine and then shell them. Squash were sliced into thin rings and hung on frames to dry. Thus, these dried foods could help them suffer through the severe winter. However, in the 1900s, farmers planted corn, oats, and hay as the main crops. In addition,

The men and the older boys did most of the farm work. They also did most of the hunting and fishing. The women and older girls made family clothes and prepare the meals.

Major labor-saving technological changes of the 20th century gave rise to the industrial processing of food. In the 1950’s and 60’s we saw a rise of supermarkets and the spread of fast-food eateries. The growth of supermarkets and fast-food eateries gave way to a new method of consumption. No longer was food’s route from the local farm or ranch to the

Farms waste food because of a bad Spring, they couldn't grow properly because it was to cold in the springtime so they threw them all out.