Caption
Whether searching for stray cattle, flying workers to isolated areas on the farm, or going to a community picnic, the farmer's airplane is an invaluable asset. Successful experiments, like seeding from the air, have been done when conventional equipment was bogged down in wet and sloppy soil. The hitherto isolated life on the farm is rapidly disappearing with the increased use of the airplane. Getting young farmers up in the air is proving a successful way of keeping them down on the farm.
Release Date
September 6, 1960
Materials
Typescript with illustrations
Photographers
Lund, ChrisCollection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Caption
Flying farmer Eldon McEachern of Carman, Manitoba, swoops low over his awaiting family as he prepares to land. Over 300 farmers, ranchers and their wives belong to flying farmer clubs. Many find the airplane a necessity on today's large prairie farms. Distances shrink and boggy roads are small obstacles to the airborne fanner. Today, a 300-mile flight to a big city is as easy as a thirty-mile drive over dusty or muddy roads to the nearest town.
Date
June 1, 1960
Accession Number
LAC-NFB93397
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011177325
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
This flying farmer skims over his crop with only a scant half-dozen feet between wheels and wheat. Quick flights like this can be made to spray fields, count and round up_x000B_cattle, check fences and water supplies, drop salt blocks to grazing livestock, and inspect fields for seeding, summer-fallowing or ripeness of the harvest crop.
Date
August 1, 1959
Accession Number
LAC-NFB90680
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011177223
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
Eldon McEachern, with the help of his son, repairs spraying equipment on his Piper Cub. Airplanes are a boon during harvest when spare parts for farm equipment are needed quickly. Without aircraft much time and money would be lost while idle men and equipment await the delivery of a vital replacement by slower means.
Date
June 1, 1960
Accession Number
LAC-NFB93403
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011177327
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
On prairie farms it's often the man in the family who does the shopping. Before Mrs. McEachern takes her groceries into the kitchen, Allan reaches into the bag for a cookie from the weekly shopping that Dad has just flown in from town.
Date
June 1, 1960
Accession Number
LAC-NFB93400
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011177326
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Photostory #267: Canada's Farmers Flying High
Photographers
Maker
National Film Board of Canada
Release Date
September 6, 1960
Collection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Main Text
Whether searching for stray cattle, flying workers to isolated areas on the farm, or going to a community picnic, the farmer's airplane is an invaluable asset. Successful experiments, like seeding from the air, have been done when conventional equipment was bogged down in wet and sloppy soil. The hitherto isolated life on the farm is rapidly disappearing with the increased use of the airplane. Getting young farmers up in the air is proving a successful way of keeping them down on the farm.
