Down on the Farm is a 1938 American comedy film directed by Malcolm St. Clair and starring Jed Prouty, Spring Byington and Louise Fazenda. It was part of Twentieth Century Fox's Jones Family series.[1] The family go to stay at their aunt's farm.
The film's sets were designed by the art directors Bernard Herzbrun and Boris Leven.
The Jones Family visit John Jones’ aunt who lives on a country farm. Various romances ensue, and John wins a cornhusking contest. John is kidnapped by con men and is rescued by son Roger. State politics are satirized “as are the ineptitudes of city people" who are ignorant of country ways.[2]