Country Living

Farming

Farming in the 17th century was for the poor. They had to farm to grow products or produce to sell. The people needed the money to pay for the land if they didn’t own it and to fix things. Sometimes the stable or the house would break down and let rain in. Sometimes it was the equipment. The poor needed to fix things to live in the country.

Equipment

The equiptment consisted of basicly plows, and harnneses. The average harnness was easy to hook up but not everyone could do it. Lots of animals particulary the oxen were used to plow fields in the 17th and 18th century. They used oxen more because they were easily kept and the expense of the horse was to much for some people. Alough there was'nt much information that I could find on this subject because horses were not used very often.