Having lived and worked in and around agriculture in Fife all his life, Andrew Arbuckle has a deep affection for his farming heritage. Keen to record this for both those who remember the old ways of farming as well as future generations, Andrew has gathered information from a variety of sources to present a commentary on Scottish farming life from 1900 to the present day. Andrew's avenues of research included local newspaper archives, press cuttings and minutes from union meetings or local shows. Social history also plays a vital part in the project and interviews with people who have worked in farming in days gone by give the book a vitality and humanity often missing from history books. The book is liberally illustrated with between 50-60 black and white photographs arranged in sections.
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Andrew Arbuckle. Footsteps in the Furrow
Footsteps in the Furrow
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Recording the changes
Early Days
Farms, Fields and Steadings
Fields
Workforce
Cottages
The importance of agricultural employment
Hierarchy
Feeing markets
Perks
Working hours and unions
Fertilisers
Cereals
Threshing
Sowing and growing
Potatoes
Growing and harvesting
Seed production
Marketing
Flax
Pea Growing
Other Vegetable Crops
Soft Fruit
Sugar Beet
Cropping
Forage Crops
Turnips and other root crops
Other forage crops
Horsepower
The decline of the working horse
Machinery
The range of machinery on the farm
Hand tools
Power and communication down on the farm
Beef Cattle
Dairy
Sheep
Poultry
Pigs
Auction Marts
Valuations
Farm sales or roups
War time at the marts
War
Agricultural Executive Committees
Wartime workforce
After the conflict
Transport
Walking and biking
Horse and car traffic
Road conditions
Ferries
Railways
Lorry transport
Trade
Oatmeal millers
Potato trade
Seedsmen
Co-operatives
National Farmers Union involvement in trade
Shows
Other shows and competitions
Pests
Crows and rooks
Pigeons
Rats
Geese
Legislation
Organisations
Education
Young Farmers
The Future
Bureaucracy
Entry into agriculture
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Copyright
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ANDREW ARBUCKLE
AS a boy, my walk to primary school took me along a quiet rural road running parallel with the south side of the river Tay from the small town of Newburgh. Along with half a dozen other youngsters, we would some days dawdle and play along the way. Other days, when the rain beat down upon us, we would scurry home as fast as our short legs would carry us.
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Fields with names such as ‘Stoney Knowes’ would no doubt give the ploughman thought as to exactly where the rocky outcrops might make his life difficult. Some field names gave the game away as to their previous history. ‘Coal’ field at Brigton Farm, St Andrews, was once worked for coal. Most people know of the coal-mining industry in west and central Fife, but right up until the late 1940s there were coal workings in east Fife.
The field on another farm called ‘Clay Pit’ may well have been the source of the pantiles on the roof of old steadings, but equally offered little in arable cropping. A field known as ‘Holly Hedge’ would again be named for obvious reasons and further down in the lower ground were the fields named ‘Burnside’.
