Wartime Farm '40

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https://youtu.be/2atkQAiQbFg?t=53m39s

1940
https://youtu.be/2atkQAiQbFg?t=10s

Blitz, blockade, cull, 2M acres
https://youtu.be/2atkQAiQbFg?t=2m19s
Silage; sugar beets & beet topper; 6 beets => 1 kilo of sugar => total 3m tons
https://youtu.be/2atkQAiQbFg?t=6m18s
https://youtu.be/2atkQAiQbFg?t=11m52s
https://youtu.be/2atkQAiQbFg?t=16m
https://youtu.be/2atkQAiQbFg?t=36m55s

Pigs: 7K pig clubs => 140K pigs
https://youtu.be/2atkQAiQbFg?t=10m15s
foot and mouth disease b/o kitchen waste
https://youtu.be/2atkQAiQbFg?t=14m14s
https://youtu.be/2atkQAiQbFg?t=16m59s

Sheep culled
https://youtu.be/2atkQAiQbFg?t=18m41s
Old hens (>3 yrs) culled
https://youtu.be/2atkQAiQbFg?t=24m28s

Ministry of Food (Monday, Jan 15th) - Fatstock slaughter
https://youtu.be/2atkQAiQbFg?t=19m14s
Rationing - January, 1940
https://youtu.be/2atkQAiQbFg?t=20m3s
March '40 - meat rationing
https://youtu.be/2atkQAiQbFg?t=21m20s
Country perks - foraging
https://youtu.be/2atkQAiQbFg?t=23m32s
Dig for Victory
https://youtu.be/2atkQAiQbFg?t=25m37s
Paraffin rationed, hay box
https://youtu.be/2atkQAiQbFg?t=27m9s
https://youtu.be/2atkQAiQbFg?t=36m7s

Silage => 1 million tons
https://youtu.be/2atkQAiQbFg?t=38m12s
Land Girls (WLA) & silo
https://youtu.be/2atkQAiQbFg?t=39m19s
https://youtu.be/2atkQAiQbFg?t=43m6s
https://youtu.be/2atkQAiQbFg?t=49m2s
https://youtu.be/2atkQAiQbFg?t=56m35s
Molasses - sugar-beet byproduct
https://youtu.be/2atkQAiQbFg?t=54m28s
Volunteers - 600K in WLA & WI
https://youtu.be/2atkQAiQbFg?t=41m43s
https://youtu.be/2atkQAiQbFg?t=46m50s
1940 home-canning machines
https://youtu.be/2atkQAiQbFg?t=50m47s
https://youtu.be/2atkQAiQbFg?t=55m21s

Black market - removing red dye from armed forces petrol
https://youtu.be/2atkQAiQbFg?t=28m49s
Butchers' fiddles
https://youtu.be/2atkQAiQbFg?t=32m36s

HMS Jarvis Bay
https://youtu.be/2atkQAiQbFg?t=34m56s

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2atkQAiQbFg
Summer to Xmas 1940
https://youtu.be/bxztuX3fGVM?t=2m20s

Battle of Britain & Bltiz
https://youtu.be/bxztuX3fGVM?t=2m50s
24K civilians killed by December '40
https://youtu.be/bxztuX3fGVM?t=40m18s
Evacuation of 3 million - repairs, furniture, fabric shortage
https://youtu.be/bxztuX3fGVM?t=4m29s
https://youtu.be/bxztuX3fGVM?t=18m39s
quilting - ticking & feathers
https://youtu.be/bxztuX3fGVM?t=10m11s
https://youtu.be/bxztuX3fGVM?t=14m42s
Brick & tile-making
https://youtu.be/bxztuX3fGVM?t=6m59s
kiln firing in brick clamp
https://youtu.be/bxztuX3fGVM?t=11m50s
https://youtu.be/bxztuX3fGVM?t=30m1s
still
https://youtu.be/bxztuX3fGVM?t=21m52s
https://youtu.be/bxztuX3fGVM?t=27m33s
1940s powersaw
https://youtu.be/bxztuX3fGVM?t=13m23s
pig
https://youtu.be/bxztuX3fGVM?t=24m55s
dairy cattle & milk production
https://youtu.be/bxztuX3fGVM?t=28m33s
mucking out cows
https://youtu.be/bxztuX3fGVM?t=47m11s

Operation Starfish
https://youtu.be/bxztuX3fGVM?t=32m34s
https://youtu.be/bxztuX3fGVM?t=36m
https://youtu.be/bxztuX3fGVM?t=39m11s
Observer Corps
https://youtu.be/bxztuX3fGVM?t=34m19s
https://youtu.be/bxztuX3fGVM?t=38m4s

Xmas
https://youtu.be/bxztuX3fGVM?t=40m39s
toys
https://youtu.be/bxztuX3fGVM?t=42m15s
Murkey (4 million tons of shipping sunk by December, '40)
https://youtu.be/bxztuX3fGVM?t=44m58s

Conscientious objectors - 61K
https://youtu.be/bxztuX3fGVM?t=15m24s

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