Tommy Flowers shows those attending the Old Time Horse Farmers Gathering on Friday how hay was once worked by a horse-drawn piece of farm equipment to help it dry after cutting.

For the sixth year in a row, Mr. Flowers and his wife, Cindy, pulled their 50-acre farm near Blackville, S.C., back in time for the two-day event, which is aimed at schoolchildren but is open to the public.

Started elsewhere 10 years ago, the Flowers moved the event to their land, which is part of a larger family farm bought around 1940 by Mrs. Flowers' great-grandparents, Lizzie and Bub Still. The Flowers grow an assortment of crops - oats, peas, corn, sugarcane, hay, peanuts - for their own use and to feed their livestock, including the work horses that pull the antique farm machinery.

Each year more than 1,000 elementary pupils take a field trip to the event.