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Farmer Filling Seed Planting Trough

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Description: A farmer pours seeds from a canvas bag into the trough of a seed planting machine. A farmhouse, white picket fence, and picnic table with chairs are visibl...
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Woman Milking Cow by Hand

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Description: A woman in an apron, and with a handkerchief on her head, sits on a stool while milking a cow by hand in a barn. Other cows are visible in the background.
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Woman Hoeing in Garden

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Description: A woman wearing a checkered dress uses a hoe in a small garden plot. Trees, shrubs, and an open field can be seen in the background.
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Farmer Inspecting a Litter of Piglets

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Description: A farmer inspects a sow and litter of six piglets in a pigpen.
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Sorting Potatoes

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Description: Potatoes going from truck to sorting machine at the Mumbrue farm. Roy Roth and George Mumbrue stand next to the machine in front of a barn.
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Spiegel Family Butchering Chickens

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Description: Six men of the Spiegel family stand outdoors around a long wooden table butchering chickens. The table is covered with large steel pots and pieces of meat....
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Filling Bottles with Maple Syrup

Date: 1971
Description: Milt Mehlberg filling bottles with finished maple syrup from his farm. Mehlberg is pouring syrup from a large sieve into a glass bottle. Several bottles an...
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Tobacco Weeding

Date: 06 1968
Description: Farmer weeding in a tobacco field.
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Louie Suttner

Date: 1955
Description: Louie Suttner inspecting the wheat crop at his farm, the current site of the Fox River Mall.

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