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   Making baled silage
   
   TR MAFF PH6/27
   Museum of English Rural Life (MERL)
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   1955
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   Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
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   Silage making on a large farm with extensive machinery and manpower May have been filmed at the farm of Mr A O Elmhirst, Houndhill, Worsborough Bridge, Barnsley, Yorkshire Scenes of large Tudor farm house and buildings, scenes of fields. Scenes of bales and a part baled field, tractors and vehicles with several people. Scenes of tractor and mowing. Scenes of silage mowing with an audience. Scenes of the internal workings of the baler. The baler working in field, some of the audience walk behind the baler. One man closely inspects the working baler. The whole audience follows the working baler. One man tests the weight of the silage bale. Each bale is loaded by two men, with pitchforks, onto a moving trailer pulled by a tractor. Scene of empty concrete lined silage pit in the farmyard. Scenes of an adjoining silage pit with some bales already stacked. The tractor and trailer loaded with silage bales drives into the farmyard and reverse into the empty silage pit. A diagram of how to arrange bales is shown. Lengthy scenes of the trailer of silage bales being unloaded into the pit by two men. As the stack reaches the top of the pit a woman can be seen sitting in a car behind them reading. Scene of the men and the empty trailer. Scenes of the adjoining full silage pit. Scene of 2 men weighing a silage bale. Scenes of a man demonstrating a finished silage bale. Scene of a man emerging from a farm building pushing an empty trolley through a farmyard and loading bales from the silage pit onto it. Final scene of two men walking back across the farmyard to the farmhouse. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Yorkshire and Lancashire Province
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Languages: English

 

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Geofocus: England
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Country of production: England

 

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Category: Commissioned film

 

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Keyword: Machinery



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