Rural+Lifestyles+in+the+1920's



The rural listyle was different from the urban lifestyle. In the urban lifestyle there was a big change in their style of life. In rural lifestyle everything was the samethey didn't had all this technology that the cities had. There they didn't had any electricity, indoor plumbing, refrigerators, or other modern inventions enjoyed by city dwellers in the 1920s.The gangland crime, flapper fashions, dance marathons, and Jazz Age glamour were far away from the sunrise to sunset labor of York County farmers. But they saw these lifestyles in the movies.

Farming was hard work, with long days and little money. Every member of the family had chores -- milking cows, harnessing horses, gathering eggs, cleaning the outhouse, washing clothes, and more. Children usually walked to school, rain or shine, and spent summers helping in the fields.A lot of their chores were hard because they didn't had simple stuff like electricity and water systems, telephone systems, streetlights, and sewage system.

In rural lifes one way to make money and food was by the crops. This was not an easy task because they had to battle plant diseases, temperature extremes, too much rain, then not enough rain, insects and other pests. One big thing are the pest and at that time they did not have many scientific ways to kill insects, control weeds, and boost crop yields. Insects destroyed a large percentage of their crops each year.

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