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 ABC-produced 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 (0:30–0:53). Pan across rural road / landscape (0:54–1:02). Cow and calf in field. Rows of low crops (1:06). Feeding a cow from a bucket (1:10). Five cows grazing (1:27–1:37). Farming family at the breakfast table (1:38). Mother serves fried eggs to tomboy. Family introductions: father, two sons, two daughters, youngest boy (1:58–2:29). 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