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Object ID
2012.047.015
Title
Two men by a silo on the Graham Family farm.
Date
[between 1940 and 1950].
Description
Black and white photograph of two men by a silo on the Graham family farm. There is a large cart filled with what appears to be stalks of crop, so full it is overflowing. The two men are standing behind a tray beside the silo.
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Graham Family
Matthew Sr. and Annie Graham and their children Charles, Annie, Tillie, Margaret, and Matthew Jr.
The Graham farm was located on the Abbotsford/Langley border in Glen Valley. Graham Hill on the Glen Valley escarpment was named after this family. Crops were: dairy, potatoes, oats, hay turnips, and mangolds. Prior to 1940, crop rotation was practiced, with grass being sown under a cover crop of oats. The threshing machine moved around the valley from farm to farm followed by the threshing gang. Milk was sold for $2 per can in Vancouver. The Probert's and Harry Wright brought stock to the Graham farm.
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