This black and white film is one of a 1950-1960 television series Industry on Parade, produced by the National Association of Manufacturers; an Arthur Lodge Productions Inc. This episode has six segments. Tennessee. A barge moves up the Tennessee River to Chattanooga to the Central Soya Company mill. Soybeans quickly move through a processing conveyer. The inside equipment is shown, including gravimetric feeders. Many bags of soybeans are shown stacked. A train car is filled with soybeans (:42-3:10). Virginia. Grain arrives by car and train. Bags of grain are poured into a Hammer Mill grinder at Lindsey-Robinson & Company. Multiple rotary mixers are controlled by a single switch panel with many dials. Feed sacks are filled. Spoon bread is mixed in a machine and packaged as Gambills Plantation Spoon Bread. A woman removes the finished bread from aa 1950s oven and serves it to her family (3:11-5:56). Indiana. A worker at Martins Hatchery, Ramsey, IN, opens an incubator drawer full of live baby chicks. The chicks are loaded in boxes and moved to the brooder house full of chicks. When larger, they roam in a field. Full-grown chickens are transported to an underground former limestone mine where they join other egg-laying hens. The cool temperature and light controls create an environment for year-round laying. A wheelbarrow is filled with feed and the hens fed. Eggs are gathered to take to the above-ground incubators (5:57-9:26). Missouri. Apples are hand-picked by a man on a ladder. Apples are taste-tested at the Stark Brothers Orchard Company. Men with pen knives graft dwarf apple trees onto lengths of Virginia crab trees. Scions are harvested from parent trees and grafted onto dwarf trees to make the new variety. Fungicides are sprayed by a man on a tractor not wearing any protection. Trees are hand-stripped of leaves and a mechanical digger uproots them. The trees are placed into a truck to transport to the nursery for packing into large wooden crates and stored. A mother and her little boy wearing a cardigan sweater pick apples from an apple tree in their yard (9:27-14:29). Oregon. English holly is harvested by Brownell Farms workers and loaded into crates on a truck. Cuttings are dipped into alpha naphthalene acetic acid, a hormone solution, to keep them moist during shipment. Boxes of holly boughs are packed. Workers use heavy wire to create English holly wreaths (15:11-17:13). Oregon. Premium Royal Riviera pears are given a final hand-inspection for Harry and David of Bear Creek. The large packaging and shipping center is shown in action. A woman loads a pear into a Royal Riviera bag. The contents of a gift basket are placed into individual crates for packers. A paper-mache shell is placed in the basket center and the fruit and treats expertly packed under and around it. A finished Harry and David gift basket is shown. Women hand-weave the baskets and others hand-tie large ribbon bows (17:14-20:19).
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