American Farmers In The 1920s

Introduction

Family life on a farm in York County was very dissimilar from life in town in the 1920s. On the subcontract, at that place was no electricity or indoor plumbing. Farming was hard work, with long days and little money. Work and play revolved around the seasons. Every member of the family had chores -- milking cows, harnessing horses, gathering eggs, cleaning the outhouse, washing clothes, and more. Children usually walked to school, pelting or smoothen, and spent summers helping in the fields. Subcontract families looked forward to the fun of school programs, trips to boondocks, church gatherings, and other social events. With assistance from neighbors, 1920s subcontract families brought in the harvest, battled fires, coped with accidents and affliction, and weathered natural disasters such as tornadoes and drought. Bound, summertime, fall, and winter brought different chores and social activities for farm families.


	How was life on the farm unlike from life in cities? "The graphic symbol and quality of life changed dramatically in Nebraska during the 1920s….The effects of technological alter were near obvious in the cities. By the 1920s most pocket-size cities had paved streets, municipal electricity and water systems, telephone systems, streetlights, and sewage systems… The homes of almost urban Nebraskans had running water and indoor plumbing…Electricity appeared in homes on a k calibration during the 1920s, at first for illumination but by the stop of the decade for washing or sewing machines, irons, toasters, mixers, and vacuum cleaners…Refrigerators began to supercede iceboxes for brusk-term food preservation, and electric fans began to absurd hot summertime days. "Alter came more slowly for country people, who would wait another decade or two for electrical appliances. Their lives were more profoundly transformed by the gasoline-powered car and truck, where effects were especially astute in sparsely populated agricultural states such every bit Nebraska." From Nebraska: An Illustrated History, past Frederick Luebke, University of Nebraska, 1995, Lincoln, London