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| Description: | A farmer is planting corn using the planter wire method. |
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| Description: | Horse-drawn wagons, also known as milk buggies, dropping off cans of milk at the country cheese factory during summer. |
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| Description: | A farm boy is riding the "hay-fork horse" as the farmer is loading hay into the barn during haying time in July. |
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| Description: | A farm family takes part in milking time. The mother carries a milk can and a stripping bucket while the boy pushes milk cans on a cart toward the barn. Th... |
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| Description: | A team of three Belgian horses pulling a Deering binder through a field during the oat harvest. A farmer is driving the team, and other workers are in the ... |
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| Description: | A threshing scene during harvest time. In the background, the separater tender stands on the thresher overseeing the whole operation. He has a weighing dev... |
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| Description: | A harvest scene in which an old-fashioned steam-powered tractor is hooked up to a threshing machine. There is a pile of coal next to the tractor and a tank... |
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| Description: | Painting of a county fair, depicting a grandstand, harnass racing, a ferris wheel and merry-go-round typical of the event. The fair gave farmers an opportu... |
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| Description: | A depiction of the Yellowstone Church of rural Lafayette County, just a few miles from the Kammerude farm. The church is built from locally quarried limest... |
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| Description: | A woman waiting by her mailbox receives a Sears Roebuck catalog delivered by her mail carrier who drives a horse-drawn wagon. The farmhouse and barn are vi... |
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| Description: | On the right, the farmer in his sheepskin coat drives a horse-drawn sled loaded with milk cans to the cheese factory. A blanket is covering the cans to pre... |
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| Description: | Two men work at running sap from maple trees. Buckets are hanging beneath the sap spouts or "spiles" inserted into holes drilled in the trees. A team of ho... |
| Date: | 12 11 1983 |
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| Description: | Delmer Staus of Waukesha County shoveling contents of one of his cow barns into a manure spreader. |
| Date: | 10 1984 |
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| Description: | Tim Finch and Kay Finch of the Perry Creek Cranberry Company. In the background men work in the cranberry marsh to harvest the berries. |
| Date: | 09 25 1980 |
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| Description: | Pastoral panoramic painting on the side of a barn. Two people on scaffolding can be seen working on the mural at right. A silo juts above the barn. There i... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Cows grazing in a pasture with trees and a dramatic sky of clouds. |
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