DISCOVERY 68 TV SHOW 1960s LIFE ON A FAMILY FARM IN MIDWESTERN ILLINOIS XD30722

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films Visit Visit our website This episode of Discovery 68, an ABCproduced TV show for children, focuses on a family farm in the American midwest. The host is Bill Owen. The show opens in Villa Grove in Central Eastern Illinois. Flatlands. A young boy feeds chickens. Cows outside a white barn. Opening credits (0:300:53). Pan across rural road, landscape (0:541:02). Cow and calf in field. Rows of low crops (1:06). Feeding a cow from a bucket (1:10). Five cows grazing (1:271:37). Farming family at the breakfast table (1:38). Mother serves fried eggs to tomboy. Family introductions: father, two sons, two daughters, youngest boy (1:582:29). Sons emerge, with farm dog, for chores. Small boy holds old laying hen with white feet. Boy feed hen by hand from chicken feeder. Demonstration of chicken diet: hoe oats, corn, supplement, rocks, grit, oyster shell. A waterer is shown. Zoom on white chick