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MPX5078208: Agriculture Harvesting: Two days of sun and wind have dried out the corn crop sufficiently for threshing. At the first sign of the sun farmers and their men, many on "extended leave" from the Forces, went into the fields in an effort to save the harvest. A threshing crew working hard to get the grain out before more rain falls. September 1946 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5078232: They Have Chosen Farming As A Career: There are a number of girls taking the 12 months course in farming and horticulture at the Surrey County Council Farm Institute at Merrist Wood, near Guildford. 45 students, men and girls, on the 430 acre farm are learning milk production, cattle management, vet science, botany, zoology, bee keeping. Mary Coleridge of Wimbledon and Judy Hitchcock of Tollworth are very masterful with the calf Tulip II whom they are "drenching" administering a tonic. June 1949 / Bridgeman Images