Chickens and their eggs helped feed farm families and were marketed for much needed cash income. A thank you to Ruth Cressman of Rosetown, Sask., and her co-operative hens.  |  Betty Ann Deobald photo

Farm women’s labour sustained their families in the 1920s

On prairie farms in the 1920s, crop failures, poor crop prices and farm debt payments resulted in little cash income. To become more self-sufficient, farmers were encouraged to broaden their farm production from one or two grain crops by adding livestock, pigs, chickens and a cow or two. The planting of shelterbelts, fruit bushes, orchards […] Read more