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The Plow That Broke the Plains is a 1936 short documentary film that shows the cultivation of the Great Plains region of the United States and Canada following the Civil War and leading up to the Dust Bowl as a result of farmers' exploitation of the Great Plains' natural resources. [1]
Dave arrives at work early, so Mr. Hawkins tells him to hook up Jenny, the mule, and go plow the fields near the woods. Dave plans to use his time away to practice with the gun. When he gets out to the woods, Dave takes his first shot. The gun's kickback scares off the mule; however, he realizes Jenny has been shot, and the mule soon dies.
A plough or plow (both pronounced / p l aʊ /) is a farm tool for loosening or turning the soil before sowing seed or planting. [1] Ploughs were traditionally drawn by oxen and horses but modern ploughs are drawn by tractors. A plough may have a wooden, iron or steel frame with a blade attached to cut and loosen the soil.
"All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough" (Roud 346) [1] or The Ploughman's Song is an English folk song about the working life of horsemen on an English farm in the days before petrol-driven machinery. Variants have been collected from many traditional singers - Cecil Sharp observed that "almost every singer knows it: the bad singer
"The Term 40 Acres And A Mule Was A Proposal For Reparations To Former Enslaved African-Americans In The Aftermath Of The Civil War," Lee wrote. "The Proposal Was Intended To Provide Land And ...
The mule's name was "Midnight," and together man and mule would plow straight, deep rows for the crops, which was considered as much an indicator of prowess as a farmer as actual crop production. During rest breaks, Old Rivers would sometimes take the boy aside and tell of a place he one day was going to go, by "climb(ing) that mountain."
While plowing a field in western Slovakia, a farmer hit a “rock.” This wasn’t the first time the annoying “rock” had gotten in his way, but he decided it was going to be the last time.
General William T. Sherman, who issued the orders that were the genesis of forty acres and a mule. Forty acres and a mule refers to a key part of Special Field Orders, No. 15 (series 1865), a wartime order proclaimed by Union general William Tecumseh Sherman on January 16, 1865, during the American Civil War, to allot land to some freed families, in plots of land no larger than 40 acres (16 ha ...