Ploughing with horses, 1937
Farmers drive two-horse ploughs across wide stubble fields beside a lone tree and a great sheaf of grain, and a woman pushes a pram past a road barrier.
A farmer in a cap walks behind a pair of dark horses and a plough across a broad, flat field, turns the team at the headland and leans on the lever of the plough; on the horizon another team stands beside a small, wind-bent tree, and a great sheaf of grain frames a third ploughman at the far side of the field. On an unpaved country road closed by a striped barrier marked Gesperrt, a cyclist passes and a woman pushes a pram round the barrier.
Ploughing the stubble followed straight after the harvest. Most German farms still worked with horses in 1937, and the regime's doctrine of Blood and Soil made the peasant behind his plough the image of the nation's roots, while the Four-Year Plan demanded ever more from his fields.
