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

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