Harmony Community, Putnam County, Binders are not uncommon on large farms, but those who . . .; Scope and content: Full caption reads as follows: Harmony Community, Putnam County, Binders are not uncommon on large farms, but those who can handle all their small grains by hand continue to do so. These [African-American] tenants have made a sort of mechanical cradle out of an old mowing machine with a piece of corrugated iron rigged behind the cutter bar to catch the fallen stalks. One man walks along side with a stick and sweeps the standing grain back over the cutter w
Harmony Community, Putnam County, Binders are not uncommon on large farms, but those who . . .; Scope and content: Full caption reads as follows: Harmony Community, Putnam County, Binders are not uncommon on large farms, but those who can handle all their small grains by hand continue to do so. These [African-American] tenants have made a sort of mechanical cradle out of an old mowing machine with a piece of corrugated iron rigged behind the cutter bar to catch the fallen stalks. One man walks along side with a stick and sweeps the standing grain back over the cutter while two others pick it out of the tin cradle and bind it.
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