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County Agent Demonstrating Methods of Judging Swine

Date: 1928
Description: Sitting on pig pen fence, a county agent is demonstrating methods of judging swine to a local Boys & Girls club youth.
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Farmall F-20 Tractor and Combine on Rural Highway

Date: 07 03 1934
Description: Farmer driving a McCormick-Deering Farmall F-20 tractor and combine (harvester-thresher) on a rural highway. The tractor and combine were equipped with Fir...
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Farmall F-20 Tractor and Combine in Wheat Field

Date: 07 1934
Description: Farmers combining wheat on Purdue University's Edgewood Farm using an air-tired McCormick-Deering combine (harvester-thresher) and Farmall F-20 tractor.
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Bull Along Roadside

Date: 08 1929
Description: Bull standing along a rural road with farm buildings in the background. Original caption reads: "Better tether him out than for him not to get pasture."
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Delivery of 4-H Accounting Award

Date: 05 20 1936
Description: 4-H County Agent Ray Aune delivers a McCormick-Deering cream separator to Miss Luella Pagel. Ms. Pagel was the winner of the state 4-H Accounting Award. Pi...
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Hot Formaldehyde Treatment

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Description: Agricultural extension demonstration on the William Wegert farm near Friendship. A group of farmers are watching a hot formaldehyde treatment on potatoes f...
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Treated Oats Sign

Date: 1915
Description: Sign near a field of oats, declaring that it was treated for smut. The sign reads: "The oats on this farm were treated for smut. The loss is 0.00 per cent....
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Non-Treated Oats Sign

Date: 1915
Description: A sign on a fence declaring that the farm's oats were left untreated for smut. The sign reads: "The oats on this farm were not treated for smut. The loss e...
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Diversification Meeting

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Description: Automobiles parked for a "diversification meeting" at an IH "experiment farm."
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"Tractorette" Group on Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: Mrs. John T. Shea, Mary Elma Riddell, and Mrs. John R. Riddell, participants in "Tractorette" class, are posing around a Farmall H tractor with J.S. Inman,...
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"Tractorette" Student

Date: 1942
Description: Slightly elevated view of a participant in International Harvester's "Tractorette" class sitting on a Farmall H tractor. The class consisted of 15 women an...
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"Tractorettes" with Instructor

Date: 1942
Description: "Tractorettes" pose with their instructor, McCormick-Deering salesmen Robert L. McCaffrey, on a Farmall H tractor.
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College of Agriculture on Campus

Date: 1899
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agriculture, looking southeast. Fences and fields are in the foreground. There are two windmills near buildings ...
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Chicken Coop Interior

Date: 1919
Description: Interior view of a chicken coop used to represent poor roost structure and uncleanliness.
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Farm Buildings

Date: 1915
Description: View of a barn, shed, and fence, used to illustrate places where mites and lice might breed.
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Woman with Poultry Housing Display

Date: 1915
Description: A woman holding a chicken is standing beside a display illustrating quality poultry housing (chicken coops).
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Farm Equipment in Snow

Date: 1915
Description: A cultivator sitting in the snow near a fence, illustrating the hazards of improper equipment housing. A herd of cows is in the background near a barn and ...
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Mower in Snow

Date: 1915
Description: A sickle bar mower is sitting in snow beside a wire fence, illustrating the hazards of improper equipment housing. A barn and other farm buildings are in t...
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Farm Equipment in Snow

Date: 1915
Description: A walking plow resting on its side is on snow-covered ground beside a wire fence. The photograph was probably taken to illustrate the hazards of improper e...
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Culling Demonstration

Date: 1919
Description: A group of men and women gather around Professor Garrick in the yard and on the porch of a farmhouse to watch a poultry culling demonstration. Additional f...

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