This team were perhaps the handsomest ones at the fair, although competition was keen. No prizes were awarded, except for skill in pulling a large log, and we left before that contest occurred. Here an old-style (but new) piece of ground-preparation equipment is being hitched up.
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Not my image. Photographer unknown. Shared from the Special Collections, Library, North Carolina State University, Raleigh. A simple horse-drawn harvester cutting wheat. Shocks seen standing in the field. (WORD ORIGIN Middle English--perhaps from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German schok, of unknown origin.)
Possibly shot about 1940.
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. . . .at Warren Wilson College's annual Plow Day, a marvelous opportunity to see these beautiful animals and draft horses show what they can do under the direction of capable hands. I LOVE mules!
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Standing for display and also waiting for traffic to clear ahead where several other carts and wagons were moving along the narrow track.
See adjacent frame, "Handsome".
At the Warren Wilson College Plow Day, 2011.
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Warren Wilson College annual Plow Day, September 2011.
(made sepia)
*Know the word? I saw them advertised in the Small Farmer's Journal and read further.
"Hames=a pair of curved metal (or sometimes wooden) pieces lying on the horse collar of a horse harness, taking the pull from the traces."
The visible part here are the metal knobs atop the collars.
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