Hi Francis, Some of them became mechanics to fix the new fangled machines! Leigh, Sydney (over the ditch). From: Francis Payne <francisp@xtra.co.nz> Subject: [HAM] Ag Labs & Gardeners The TV show Victorian Farm how, by the 1880s, machinery was drastically reducing the number of ag labs needed per farm. So what did these people who had been, or would have been,?ag labs do ??Seems like they became gardeners instead.