Productive farm tasks: separating grain and hay with a thresher

Men, women and, quite often, children did the threshing in Spain. Mechanisation of agricultural production was gradual, mechanical threshers for separating grain and hay coming first. These involved less effort than threshing by hand, a task which the woman in mourning in the picture was still carrying out at the end of the 20^th century. Photo, Juan Pérez de la Torre