Two vineyard workers spread manure as fertilizer for grape vines.

Item

11.102 spreading manure.jpg
Title
Two vineyard workers spread manure as fertilizer for grape vines.
Description
The use of manure as a fertilizer component was, and still remains a popular solution to feeding of grape vines. Here a vineyard worker on a McCormick-Deering tractor pulls a large trailer filled with manure as workers spread on to the field.
Creator
Ken James photography, Niagara Falls
Date
1940s-1950s
Format
jpb
Rights
George Hostetter
Subject
Vineyards
Farm labour
Fertilizer
Tractors
Wine, Niagara region
Wineries, Niagara region
T.G. Bright & Co. Limited
Brights Wines
Source
George Hostetter fonds, RG 705
Item sets
From farm to table: grape growing and processing from the records of George Hostetter

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