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In 1900, a farmer depended on draft horses, mules or oxen to plow his fields and tend his crops. Today, tractors do the work animals once did.
Then and Now compares life on a rural North Carolina farm a century ago to how things are today. Learn what tools people used on the farm — inside the farmhouse and outside — and how those items have evolved.
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