Louise McClary (http://louisemcclary.com) is an artist who lives and works near Manaccan. Louise attended our oral history training last week and is now armed with a recorder to go and interview a local farming family she knows.
Here is a slideshow of photographs Louise has sent over with descriptions-
Weighing the cows before the butcher comes…
Special contraption with a weight under hoof to weigh them… they intend to get the butcher in soon to see if he thinks they are “finished.” What does that mean I asked? Well… ready for the abattoir….
Doing it that way they can be taken to the local abattoir at Penryn which will save the cows a lot less stress than going to Truro market and possibly coming back again “unsold.”
Madame feels slightly better about the whole thing… except one realizes there is not much room for sentimentality… just good husbandry…
Andrew Hosking in stripy top …Raymond (Andrew’s dad) only slightly visible.
View from ‘flat field’…
Probably THE most beautiful farm setting in the world…
Mollassas feed…
This is raised to stop badgers licking it.
BRUCE the bull at 8 months old…
The most important thing for a bull is its feet, so I have learnt this morning, as it will spend most of its working life on its back legs …hum, bit graphic ,but there you are and this is Bruce!!
Photographs & text by Louise McClary. Thanks for sending these over!
