They make an attractive display, these tools from our past.
Yes, we actually used these things, once upon a time. The tobacco planter on the left had a reservoir of water so you could job it into the ground and release the seedling and a little water at the same time. (I wish I still had the cooked stick that I used planting our first crop.)
The tobacco basket was what we took our tobacco to market on. Hands (bundles) of graded tobacco were arranged in a circular stack on the basket. Horribly labor intensive and in the latter years of our tobacco growing, everyone had switched to baling the cured leaves--easier, but not so elegant.
The little wheel hoe/cultivator never got much use-- our soil was too rocky for it to work well. But I love the way it looks.
Old times they are not forgotten. It was such hard work but we we fortunate to have participated in a dying culture.
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Sweet nostalgia
Ingenious devices which were made originally to provide better ways of doing something. Just like all those metal farm things that are slowly rusting back into the soil, and dare I say a few cars and tractors!
How lovely to have and to display. The patina of age is most attractive.
I have two of those hoe cultivators as garden art. I also have part of another one and the wheel of a fourth one all as garden art.
IOur tobacco barn was taken out by a huge oak tree years ago. I still miss it. Jerome and I had to have a neighbor pledge to help us or we would not have gotten the FHA mortgage. Yes, we handed it for several years. Nothing easy about farming anything!
This is Tamma and Jerome. Not sure why we're anonymous. ❤️
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