In the late 1880's and early 1900's, a typical farm would be an average of 100 acres. Farms were very different because back then, farmers used horses for everything; now we use tractors for the farm work.

This picture shows young men using horses to lift hay with a rope and pulley, circa 1890. The people are working to put hay in the barn. The two horses are waiting to get going.

This picture was taken around 1890 and shows a farmer harvesting hay. What the farmers would do with the hay was to bundle it and leave it in the field to dry. Later on, the farmer would hook a team of horses up to the hay wagon and pick up the bundles. The farmer would haul them back to the barn and put them in the loft.

This is a picture of some people threshing grain. There are kids sitting on bags that were most likely filled with grain. This picture was taken about 1910.

This threshing machine was used in Beachpoint on PEI.

The threshing machine was used by attaching two horses to it. The horses would run on the treadmill, and the threshing machine would thresh the grain. It would probably take a long time. Today, we probably wouldn't use two horses to do that. We would use a machine without the horses.