Telephones are banned from Old-Order Amish homes for many philosophical reasons. However, business demands have dictated a compromise in telephone usage. "Community phones" can be found in a shanty at the end of a farm lane or in the barn, but never in the home.
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Photographs and slides donated by Discover Lancaster/Pennsylvania Dutch Country Visitors Bureau, June 2016.
Framed by the birds in the sky and the rich earth below, Lancaster County's Old-Order Amish farmers use horse and mule-drawn plows to till their fields as they have for many generations before them.
Provenance
Photographs and slides donated by Discover Lancaster/Pennsylvania Dutch Country Visitors Bureau, June 2016.
Despite agricultural mechanization, tobacco remains a highly laobr-intensive crop, ideally suited to the farming methods used by the Amish in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. This Amishman and his son are harvesting the tobacco leaves, which are cut and hung on lathes to dry - one of the first steps toward the eventual manufacture of cigars.
Provenance
Photographs and slides donated by Discover Lancaster/Pennsylvania Dutch Country Visitors Bureau, June 2016.
Silhouetted as he works, an Amish farmer in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania tranfers a tobacco harvest from the field to his shed where it will hang to cure. Over 10,000 acres of cigar tobacco are grown in the county, much of it by the Amish, for whom it is an important crop.
Provenance
Photographs and slides donated by Discover Lancaster/Pennsylvania Dutch Country Visitors Bureau, June 2016.
For Amish farmers in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, late summer signals long days needed to reap a bountiful wheat harvest. Twenty-five percent of the County's agricultural acreage is farmed by Amish, who continue to use mules or horses and manpower rather than the mechanically powered equipment employed by conventional farms.
Provenance
Photographs and slides donated by Discover Lancaster/Pennsylvania Dutch Country Visitors Bureau, June 2016.
Following his father's footsteps, an Amish boy tags along as his father uses a mule-drawn grain drill to make a spirng platning of soubeans, spring oats or afalfa. On farms averaging 55 acres, Amish farmers using similar methods till a quarter of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania's 336,150 acres.
Provenance
Photographs and slides donated by Discover Lancaster/Pennsylvania Dutch Country Visitors Bureau, June 2016.
Lancaster County is well known for its meticulously kept farm homes. Here, Old Order Amish women tend to the flower beds which provide brilliant colors six months of the year.
Provenance
Photographs and slides donated by Discover Lancaster/Pennsylvania Dutch Country Visitors Bureau, June 2016.
