Wartime Farm '45

1945
https://youtu.be/kwBD9gRZLTE?t=40m1s

Summer harvest
https://youtu.be/kwBD9gRZLTE?t=1m14s

Wheat harvest
https://youtu.be/kwBD9gRZLTE?t=2m17s
Combine harvester - Allis-Chalmers All Crop 60 manufacture through 40s
https://youtu.be/kwBD9gRZLTE?t=3m8s
https://youtu.be/kwBD9gRZLTE?t=34m55s
Need to dry harvested grain
https://youtu.be/kwBD9gRZLTE?t=20m48s
Scrap material from dismantled roadblocks & checkpoints
https://youtu.be/kwBD9gRZLTE?t=24m20s
Wheat yields falling b/ lack of fertilizer => muck spreader
https://youtu.be/kwBD9gRZLTE?t=3m39s
Electric fences first recommended in '39 - cow manure
https://youtu.be/kwBD9gRZLTE?t=10m17s
https://youtu.be/kwBD9gRZLTE?t=14m34s
Blackout ends
https://youtu.be/kwBD9gRZLTE?t=8m47s
Spring '45 - Russians in Berliin - May 7, Germany surrendered - VE Day
https://youtu.be/kwBD9gRZLTE?t=6m30s
Rationing continues
https://youtu.be/kwBD9gRZLTE?t=9m17s
Baked potato pie
https://youtu.be/kwBD9gRZLTE?t=13m26s
https://youtu.be/kwBD9gRZLTE?t=15m
New food crisis = feeding Europe, Germany
https://youtu.be/kwBD9gRZLTE?t=20m6s
General election after almost 6 years of CWAECs (War Ags) - Labour landslide
https://youtu.be/kwBD9gRZLTE?t=26m24s
Holidays at Home
https://youtu.be/kwBD9gRZLTE?t=29m47s
Fireworks
https://youtu.be/kwBD9gRZLTE?t=30m57s
Atom bomb & VJ Day
https://youtu.be/kwBD9gRZLTE?t=33m49s
Having used the Brits to fight the war alone for over 2 years, the USA pulled the plug on financial support
https://youtu.be/kwBD9gRZLTE?t=34m30s


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwBD9gRZLTE&index=44&list=PLtakTnKQQMCx0RPTVRn-XIp6kdtol7shK

Wartime Farm Part 8 of 8

Wartime Farm '44

https://youtu.be/JBR4ejMbnHE?t=29m41s

1944
https://youtu.be/JBR4ejMbnHE?t=1m18s

GIs arrive - 3.5m troops, 7K boats, 54K vehicles; 11m acres (1/5th of Britain) for camps, bases, munitions dumps, and training grounds (including valuable farmland)
https://youtu.be/JBR4ejMbnHE?t=2m13s
Flax
https://youtu.be/JBR4ejMbnHE?t=4m16s
NH4NO3 - chemical fertilizer - hand-operated seed barrow - long, portable, perforated box
https://youtu.be/JBR4ejMbnHE?t=15m23s
https://youtu.be/JBR4ejMbnHE?t=17m59s
Pests -- wood pigeons
https://youtu.be/JBR4ejMbnHE?t=6m19s
Carrier pigeon - 200K pigeons => 16K parachute drops - 98% returned, some injured

22-6-12 Why Pigeons Are the Perfect Spy Operatives - Real Science > .
https://youtu.be/JBR4ejMbnHE?t=6m29s
Pigeon loft & training
https://youtu.be/JBR4ejMbnHE?t=18m44s
https://youtu.be/JBR4ejMbnHE?t=23m10s
https://youtu.be/JBR4ejMbnHE?t=27m35s
Pigeon basket => WI classes => basketmaking became reserved service
https://youtu.be/JBR4ejMbnHE?t=12m50s

Wood pigeon in broth
https://youtu.be/JBR4ejMbnHE?t=22m1s
https://youtu.be/JBR4ejMbnHE?t=26m7s
https://youtu.be/JBR4ejMbnHE?t=28m45s
Waterproofing raincoat - beeswax, linseed oil, paraffin
https://youtu.be/JBR4ejMbnHE?t=10m12s
Ministry of Information artist
https://youtu.be/JBR4ejMbnHE?t=30m10s
https://youtu.be/JBR4ejMbnHE?t=34m50s
https://youtu.be/JBR4ejMbnHE?t=37m57s
POWs replace women on land
https://youtu.be/JBR4ejMbnHE?t=32m
150K Italians, 300K Germans
https://youtu.be/JBR4ejMbnHE?t=42m27s
Gypsy travelers
https://youtu.be/JBR4ejMbnHE?t=45m1s
https://youtu.be/JBR4ejMbnHE?t=46m22s
Flax
https://youtu.be/JBR4ejMbnHE?t=4m16
Flax ruined by rain and heavy clay soils
https://youtu.be/JBR4ejMbnHE?t=41m5s
Processing flax - retting, rippling, breakiing, scutching (tow), heckling, spinning
https://youtu.be/JBR4ejMbnHE?t=49m42s
Silage bread
https://youtu.be/JBR4ejMbnHE?t=32m18s
https://youtu.be/JBR4ejMbnHE?t=36m19s
June '44 - buildup to D-Day landings
https://youtu.be/JBR4ejMbnHE?t=47m10s
https://youtu.be/JBR4ejMbnHE?t=53m1s
HMS Cricket
https://youtu.be/JBR4ejMbnHE?t=47m40s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBR4ejMbnHE&list=PLtakTnKQQMCx0RPTVRn-XIp6kdtol7shK&index=43

Wartime Farm Part 7 of 8

Xmas '44
https://youtu.be/LR74VHAFhl8?t=46s

Extra 6.5 million acres between '39 and '44 => extra 700K acres
https://youtu.be/LR74VHAFhl8?t=1m52s
Hedging & ditching
https://youtu.be/LR74VHAFhl8?t=2m37s
MoF => '41 beyond '45 = Rural Pie Scheme => 1 million pies/week by '44
https://youtu.be/LR74VHAFhl8?t=3m40s
WVS - Womens' Volunteer Service '38 - older, middle-class women
https://youtu.be/LR74VHAFhl8?t=4m46s
https://youtu.be/LR74VHAFhl8?t=16m4s
https://youtu.be/LR74VHAFhl8?t=36m25s
https://youtu.be/LR74VHAFhl8?t=52m32s
Stuffed rabbit
https://youtu.be/LR74VHAFhl8?t=46m36s
Candied carrots
https://youtu.be/LR74VHAFhl8?t=50m18s
toys
https://youtu.be/LR74VHAFhl8?t=22m49s
V-bombs
https://youtu.be/LR74VHAFhl8?t=6m19s
'39 1.5 million Anderson shelters
https://youtu.be/LR74VHAFhl8?t=9m32s
Food & evacuees
https://youtu.be/LR74VHAFhl8?t=12m
Beer & pint pot girls => production rose by 30%
https://youtu.be/LR74VHAFhl8?t=12m20s
Brewing => potatoes underground
https://youtu.be/LR74VHAFhl8?t=13m21s
https://youtu.be/LR74VHAFhl8?t=19m4s
Hops
https://youtu.be/LR74VHAFhl8?t=28m23s
https://youtu.be/LR74VHAFhl8?t=33m5s
Barrel => pottery beer flagons
https://youtu.be/LR74VHAFhl8?t=20m27s
https://youtu.be/LR74VHAFhl8?t=25m25s
Propane-fired kiln - propane discovered in 1910 in USA
https://youtu.be/LR74VHAFhl8?t=26m28s
Extracting pine oil
https://youtu.be/LR74VHAFhl8?t=27m29s
https://youtu.be/LR74VHAFhl8?t=35m29s
Physalis alkekengi - Chinese lantern
https://youtu.be/LR74VHAFhl8?t=16m12s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physalis_alkekengi
Scarcity & chaff
https://youtu.be/LR74VHAFhl8?t=17m39s
Milk for "personal" use
https://youtu.be/LR74VHAFhl8?t=34m32s
Rural volunteers to towns
https://youtu.be/LR74VHAFhl8?t=35m56s
Train - abundant coal: GPO & Airgraph
https://youtu.be/LR74VHAFhl8?t=37m26s
Chislehurst Caves air-raid shelter - 22 miles of tunnels
https://youtu.be/LR74VHAFhl8?t=44m36s
https://youtu.be/LR74VHAFhl8?t=48m43s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chislehurst_Caves

Wartime Farm Christmas Special

Wartime Farm '43

>> Homefront WW2 >>>

https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=37m12s
1943 - lowest level of food imports
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=1m16s

Straw house (billeting 90K Land Girls) & rodent problem
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=3m57s
Rodent damage had doubled - £60 million/year = 2 million tons of food = 100s of ships => bait boxes
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=12m29s
Nettle thatch
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=8m21s
Stamina sagging
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=6m37s
Scraps of grass for hay - cows, milk - 1.3 billion gallons in '43
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=10m53s
Allen scythe - new '43 model could be leased from Ministry of Agriculture
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=15m28s
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=23m21s
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=44m56s
Baling machine - could be leased from Ministry of Agriculture
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=45m14s
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=51m51s
Extra 20K workers needed in '43 - children's harvest camps = almost 70K children (most over 14)
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=19m11s
Collecting herbs - 90% of medicines were plant based - meadowsweet (ASA), white willow bark (ASA), cleavers (infection) - 4K tons/year
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=21m4s
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=24m36s
Drying herbs (35C, well-ventilated, dark) - 80% of weight lost - sage 5d/lb, foxglove (digitalis) seeds 7s 6d/lb & leaves 1s 3d/lb, Atropa belladonna (atropine)
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=31m18s
Honey, beekeeping - straw & bramble for skeps - £3 for colony of honeybees => 2s 6d/lb
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=29m11s
Queen exclusion mesh, straw & nettle shelter for skep
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=33m46s
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=41m5s
Feeding harvest camp children (fresh fish scarce b/ fishermen called up and many areas out-of-bounds to fishermen
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=24m40s
May '43 - Dambusters - Wings for Victory fundraising scheme
Flour sack cloth, ersatz cosmetics
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=37m45s
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=43m7s
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=48m24s

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtakTnKQQMCx0RPTVRn-XIp6kdtol7shK

Wartime Farm Part 6 of 8

Wartime Farm '42

1942
https://youtu.be/j33DJk4-sMw?t=1m11s

Every scrap of land
https://youtu.be/j33DJk4-sMw?t=1m57s
Trusty tractor
https://youtu.be/j33DJk4-sMw?t=3m55s
https://youtu.be/j33DJk4-sMw?t=6m51s
Beans
https://youtu.be/j33DJk4-sMw?t=18m14s
Lumber Jills - in '39 only 4% of timber sourced in Britain => 60% by '45 = 18 million tons
http://www.womenslandarmy.co.uk/world-war-two/the-timber-corps-lumber-jills/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Timber_Corps
https://youtu.be/j33DJk4-sMw?t=4m22s
0.5 billion cu feet wood
https://youtu.be/j33DJk4-sMw?t=9m13s
https://youtu.be/j33DJk4-sMw?t=12m37s
snedding; explosives from bark of elder buckthorn; Hoppice conversion table
https://youtu.be/j33DJk4-sMw?t=11m5s
Milk - calves fed artificial milk
https://youtu.be/j33DJk4-sMw?t=16m18s
Pig clubs
https://youtu.be/j33DJk4-sMw?t=21m3s
https://youtu.be/j33DJk4-sMw?t=43m34s
Swede fodder crop (30% increase in fodder crops) & horse gin machine
https://youtu.be/j33DJk4-sMw?t=46m13s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_mill
https://youtu.be/j33DJk4-sMw?t=52m48s
Petrol/diesel rationing =. coal/wood fueled vehicles
https://youtu.be/j33DJk4-sMw?t=23m28s
https://youtu.be/j33DJk4-sMw?t=37m46s
200 milion tons of coal/yr - Bevin Boys
https://youtu.be/j33DJk4-sMw?t=28m
https://youtu.be/j33DJk4-sMw?t=35m24s
Soton blitz - Emergency feeding centres - British restaurants -- 600K meals/day by '45
https://youtu.be/j33DJk4-sMw?t=44m47s
https://youtu.be/j33DJk4-sMw?t=49m41s
Plum duff with powdered egg from US
https://youtu.be/j33DJk4-sMw?t=51m43s
https://youtu.be/j33DJk4-sMw?t=54m8s

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtakTnKQQMCx0RPTVRn-XIp6kdtol7shK

Wartime Farm Part 5 of 8

Wartime Farm '41

1941
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=1m19s

Fuel shortage - foraging for wood
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=2m10s
WAEC - War Ags - 2,700 lost farms, 10,000 lost bits of farm
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=3m40s
https://www.kuleuven.be/icag/files/Brian_Short.pdf
bird scarer
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=37m54s
Lister engine and Alfa-Laval milking machine
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=20m50s
Flax
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=6m10s
1K => 60K acres
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=47m7s
British Percherons - by '45 O.5 million working horses, 1 million tractors
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=51m56s
Silage
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=12m37s
Raising rabbits - officially encouraged
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=30m17s
3-4 months to butcher
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=36m18s
rabbits nesting - War Ag inspector
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=55m3s
Government Films - Spring Offensive MoI '40 - War Ag shoot out
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=17m1s
Soap shortage & soapwort
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=26m16s
Washing machine
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=33m11s
Calving, milking machine, vet, cottage-cheese from off-milk - Barbarossa & diverted shipping
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=41m43s
cottage cheese
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=49m19s

Tractors
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=8m38s
"In 1938 the 12/20 model was redesigned and the model coding was changed so that the new model became the Marshall Model "M" tractor. During the war tractor production was reduced greatly due to Marshall's factory capacity being engaged on war work. However, after the war, in 1945, Marshall's of Gainsborough introduced the improved tractor they had developed as the "Field-Marshall"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_Marshall

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Wartime Farm Episode 4 of 8