The Reclamation of Marginal Land in Glamorganshire
TR MAFF PH6/258
Museum of English Rural Life (MERL)
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1940-1949 ca.
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National Agricultural Advisory Service; Advisory Aids Commission
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Film shows how a land reclamation scheme was put into place on a farm in Wales, with the help of a grant. Filmed at the farm of Walter Jones, Hill House Farm, St Mary Hill, Glamorgan, Wales. Farm shown and 60 acres to be reclaimed. District Advisory Officer and farmer inspect land containing bracken and rocks. Work begins in winter, manually clearing stone with picks. Bull dozer flattening land. Preliminary preparations examined by John Davis, County Agricultural Officer and his assistant A Lloyd Lewis. Ploughing land repeatedly. Lime and fertiliser applied, both by hand and machinery. Sowing of crop by machine and seed fiddle. Farm walk to demonstrate crops on land. [Changes to colour] Other crops which have been successfully grown on the land shown. Cows grazing land and threshing of harvest from land. Mr and Mrs Walter Jones and family shown. Other types of marginal land shown: rush, scrub, bracken and heath. National Agricultural Advisory Service and Advisory Aids Commission Welsh Province Photography and editing R G Iles
