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Farmer's Birthday

Date: 07 07 1983
Description: John Fitzsimmons and Barton Voegeli take a break from discing the fields to eat the birthday cake that Voegeli's wife made to celebrate the occasion.
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World Food Fair

Date: 09 18 1967
Description: Ferris wheels and agricultural machinery are some of the things that attract fair-goers at the World Food Fair.
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Cleaning Cow Barn

Date: 12 11 1983
Description: Delmer Staus of Waukesha County shoveling contents of one of his cow barns into a manure spreader.
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Cranberry Growers

Date: 10 1984
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.
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Alfred Lunt and Threshers

Date: 1942
Description: Alfred Lunt watching as farm workers pitch grain into a thresher on the Ten Chimneys farm. Two men at the end of a chute collect the separated grain in sac...
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"Of Mice and Men" Publicity Still

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Description: Production still from the film "Of Mice and Men." A man is sitting on a horse while two other men are sitting and standing next to a harvesting machine in ...
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Haying

Date: 1950
Description: Haying on the farm with dramatic clouds in the background. The John Deere tractor is pulling the chopper as it empties into a wagon.
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The Population Explosion

Date: 1959
Description: A bird's nest with eggs, on the wheel of a vintage hay rake.
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Irrigation

Date: 06 1964
Description: Irrigation sprinklers spraying water onto a field near Grand Marsh.
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Harvest

Date: 1952
Description: A man driving a tractor, pulling a chopper filling a forage wagon, over gently rolling hills.

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