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This episode of Discovery '68, an ABC-produced TV show for children, focuses on a family farm in the American midwest. The host is Bill Owen. The show opens in Villa Grove in Central Eastern Illinois. Flatlands. A young boy feeds chickens. Cows outside a white barn. Opening credits (0:30–0:53). Pan across rural road / landscape (0:54–1:02). Cow and calf in field. Rows of low crops (1:06). Feeding a cow from a bucket (1:10). Five cows grazing (1:27–1:37). Farming family at the breakfast table (1:38). Mother serves fried eggs to tomboy. Family introductions: father, two sons, two daughters, youngest boy (1:58–2:29). Sons emerge, with farm dog, for chores. Small boy holds old laying hen with white feet. Boy feed hen by hand from chicken feeder. Demonstration of chicken diet: hoe oats, corn, supplement, rocks, grit, oyster shell. A waterer is shown. Zoom on white chicken feet (4:06). Teenage sons hoe soil in vegetable field (4:19) while father provides a tour: potato patch, cabbage, tomatoes, cucumber, sweet potato, muskmelon (look like cantaloupe). They pick and halve a muskmelon, camera zoom on halves (4:59). A cucumber on the vine (5:02–5:30). Host picks tomato in tomato patch, inspects bright red tomato by hand (zoomed) (5:45). Farmer pinches a cabbage head; farmer picks cabbage with handknife (6:30), shows small cabbage heads. Move to potato field (6:48), zoom on digging up hill of potatoes with pitchfork under dead potato vines. Farmer demonstrates cutting eyes of potato for planting (7:18). Women hang towels on clothesline (7:47). A woman walks on country road by flower garden (7:56), explains “simple” rural Midwest life is like the suburbs—participation in social organizations: St. Anne’s Society, Parent Teacher Association, Future Homemakers of America, Future Farmers of America, 4H (short scenes). Woman reads a booklet outside (8:14). Getting post from roadside mailbox at end of driveway. Mother helps short-haired girls with canning in kitchen (8:31). Young boy sits alone atop metal gate on country road (8:53). Boy approaches cow and calf in field. Boy feeds hogs in a pen. Two men approach a car and drive on gravel road (farmers commute to faraway parcels of farmland) (9:19). 1970s station wagon pulls up to field (10:09). Two men emerge and approach tall corn crop, inspecting corn stalk for well-pollinated ear (cob). Farmer shows tassel (pollen), zoom on husk (11:25). Man shucks corn ear on stalk to compare pollination (11:58). Farmer holds up nice corn ear (12:26), shells corn, plants seed by hand. Young man on John Deere planter plants crop rows (13:06), with farmhouse behind (seeds are from production company, not commercial corn). Farmer shows parts of machine (closeup): shanks, sweeps, cultivator, seed box, corn seeds with chemical coating. Teenager pours industrial seeds from bag into machine (14:06). Discussion: efficiency / return on investment / farmers’ economic stress (pre- farm crisis). Closeups of machine in action (14:20–14:44). Host walks through soybean fields, holds up plant (14:58), opens bean pod with fingers. Uses of soy meal / oil discussed. Farmer on planter in front of barn, discusses change in farm economy since last generation. Father and son feed cows corn (15:45). Farming walking in field (16:03), discusses getting job in town (seasonal work). Teenager (agriculture student, University of Illinois) holds basket of corn, crosses road (16:20) / shucks corn (16:27). “The future of farming is dim;” he is considering “vocational agriculture” or “horticulture” instead. Discussion: farming’s status in American society (fewer farmers than ever before). Farmers’ sons working outdoors. Farmer puts gas in John Deere planter (17:07). “Farm life is pleasant and rewarding, even if it doesn’t earn them a complete living.” Father and young son paint interior garage door white (17:53). Exterior of garage shown; chickens emerge (18:06). Teenage boy pumps water (18:11). Farmer teaches young son how to milk a cow by hand with pail (18:26). Zoom on hands, teats, milk (18:50), then cow’s face. Father and son watch newborn pigs in pens (19:53). Closeup of baby pigs nursing. Family farm buildings (10:14). Family setting table for supper (20:18). Young boy makes sign of the cross at dinner table (20:33). Family praying silently. At 20:56, host makes closing remarks and advertises book covers (close-up shots): “Miracles on Maple Hill” by Virginia Sorensen, “Farm Boy” by Douglas Gorsline, and “Farm Animals” by Dorothy Chiles Hogner (21:07). Closing credits.
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