Mountains Archives | Knee High by the First of July

Threshing at the Hunt Farm

A threshing team at the Hunt Farm, 1945. Three men work together to operate a McCormick-Deering machine. Barrels are filled and loaded onto a nearby wooden cart to […]

Corn Harvest Time in Agassiz

Madeline Appel, Aime Sache and Jim Cuthbert standing in an Agassiz corn field around harvest time, circa 1930 to 1940. Aime Sache is holding a young calf’s lead. […]

Team of Horses Ploughing

Draught animals are rarely used to farm today. They have all but been replaced by machinery. Nonetheless, ploughing competitions still occur in certain agricultural circles. Agassiz was home […]

Baling Hay for Cow Feed

Grass, or hay, is one component of cow feed. Hay fields are interspersed with corn fields throughout the District of Kent. A New Holland tractor baling cut hay, […]

Harvesting Corn for Cow Feed

Modern corn harvesting machinery. Corn is being processed as cow feed in the field using a Klaasen harvester, 2000s. Wagons transport the feed back to the farm for […]

Feeding Calves

A woman feeding calves from a bucket under a tree in Agassiz, mid-1900s. Calves are weaned to consume forage to increase cow milk production.

Fraser Valley Milk Producers Association

The Fraser Valley Milk Producers Association parade float, 1916. “The Farmers Unite and form the Fraser Valley Milk Producers Association.” Pictured are: D. McRae, I. Else, J. Morrow, […]

Moving Milk in the Winter

A farmer pulling a milk cannister on a sleigh in winter, early 1900s. Milk cannisters were transported using any means necessary to make sure that they made it […]

Agassiz Hop Field and Pickers

Summer hop pickers with their families in an Agassiz field, 1940s. This image was captured during the Agassiz hop boom prior to the Fraser River flood of 1948.

Loaded Milk Cart at the Agassiz CPR Station

Farmers with loaded milk cart and work horse at the Agassiz CPR Station, 1948. The work horse was used to pull the fully loaded carts to meet the […]

“Nothing can stop the FVMPA shippers”

Many cannisters of milk on a rail cart, seven men, and a sign “Nothing can stop the FVMPA shippers” at the Agassiz CPR Station, 1948. Gordon Morrow Jr. […]

Agassiz Milk Stand

A boy sits with cannisters of milk on an Agassiz farm milk stand, mid-1900s. The milk stands were placed by the road at the end of the driveway […]