"C'mon there, we're headed home", an Amish farmer calls encouragingly to his span of seven mules. Such sights are common along Lancaster County, Pennsylvania's country roads as spring filed work progresses.
Provenance
Photographs and slides donated by Discover Lancaster/Pennsylvania Dutch Country Visitors Bureau, June 2016.
An Amish boy gets a free ride home in Lancaster County. Amish farmers still use horses and mules to plow their farm fields and they produce yields that rival modern farming methods.
Provenance
Photographs and slides donated by Discover Lancaster/Pennsylvania Dutch Country Visitors Bureau, June 2016.
An Amish boy gets a free ride home in Lancaster County. Amish farmers still use horses and mules to plow their farm fields and they produce yields that rival modern farming methods.
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 and a bountiful wheat harvest. The traditional farming "tools" of an Old Order Amishman are the help of his sons and his team of horses, rather than the mechanized equipment of his neighbors.
Provenance
Photographs and slides donated by Discover Lancaster/Pennsylvania Dutch Country Visitors Bureau, June 2016.
