Wheat country

Duration: 0:19:40

Genre: Educational | Historical

Year Published: 1959

Creator: Encyclopaedia Britannica Educ Corp: Distributor | Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor | National Film Board of Canada: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Shows the life of a farm family on the Canadian prairie, describing the hazards, problems, and rewards of wheat farming; and documenting the changes in farm life and methods during the past three generations. Weather is portrayed as the major risk of the wheat farmer. A farm family is seen rushing to get the wheat in before the hail and rain come. Photographs of the period are used to describe the land rush of the early 1900's, the resultant "wheat boom," and the dust storms of the 1930's.

Complete Record: , Shows the life of a farm family on the Canadian prairie, describing the hazards, problems, and rewards of wheat farming; and documenting the changes in farm life and methods during the past three generations. Weather is portrayed as the major risk of the wheat farmer. A farm family is seen rushing to get the wheat in before the hail and rain come. Photographs of the period are used to describe the land rush of the early 1900's, the resultant "wheat boom," and the dust storms of the 1930's.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.