AUGUSTA GALLERY
of WEST FOLKLIFE
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| TRADITIONAL FARMING |
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Johnny Arvin Dahmer works at a shaving horse, a useful device found on many traditional farms. |
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Highly valued bottom land in much of West Virginia is often the only arable acerage on mountain farms. (FL198M) |
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Some rural farmers still stack their hay in West Virginia. They make the livestock go to it to feed, rather than the reverse, which takes heavy expensive machinery to bale and transport the hay. (FL390S)
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Horse drawn machinery is still in operation at a few rural farms. Sometimes for nostalgic reasons and sometimes for practical reasons, farmers still like to maintain some draft animals to do chores on their farms. (FL889P) |
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This subsistence farm in Calhoun County produced small cash crops and sorghum molasses for a small local market. ( FL889T) |
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Numerous mountain farms, except for a kitchen garden, are used solely for grazing and hay meadows. (PC1199C) |