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Man Loading Manure in Winter Weather

Date: 11 28 1940
Description: Man using a Farmall A tractor with loader to load manure in 10 degree weather outside a silo and farm building. Two horses are pulling the manure spreader.
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Poor Farm

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Description: Front view of the Poor Farm. Two front porches attach to the houses with decorative columns and lattice work. One of two front doors is open, and a side do...
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Filling Silo

Date: 10 22 1922
Description: Two men are unloading silage from a wagon into a silo filler on the farm of Adolph Eichherst. The silo filler is hooked up to a belt for power. Original ca...
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Men Loading Brick Silo near Brick Barn

Date: 11 12 1924
Description: Brick barn and silo. Two men are using a 15-30 tractor to power a silo filler.
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Man Loading Wagon with Corn Stalks

Date: 10 22 1922
Description: Man in field loading a horse-drawn wagon with silage corn.
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Hosing Down Silage

Date: 1916
Description: View of a man standing on a pile of corn hosing down the silage before loading a silo.
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Pitching and Loading Silage

Date: 1916
Description: View of a man pitching silage into ensilage cutter and blower near a barn and silo. Two other men are working behind the cutter and blower.
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Men Filling Silo

Date: 1916
Description: Two men are loading silage into ensilage cutter and blower to fill a silo.
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Men Filling Silo

Date: 1918
Description: Men are using a silo filler powered off of a belt attached to a tractor.
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Man Loading Silo

Date: 1915
Description: A man is using a silo filler powered by a belt attached to a tractor. Two work horses are tethered on the left, and on the right is a silo and a barn. Ther...
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Mongrel Poultry Flock

Date: 05 1925
Description: A woman using a metal pail to feed a mixed flock of chickens in front of several wooden farm buildings, and what appears to be a garden plot.
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Woman with Poultry Flock

Date: 07 22 1923
Description: Chickens gathering around a woman near a poultry house (or chicken coop) as she is feeding the flock from a metal pail. A man is walking down a path in the...
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Woman and Children with Chicks

Date: 1922
Description: A woman is standing with two children in a poultry yard, feeding chicks and a hen from a coffee can. Several farm buildings are in the background.
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Woman with Egg Basket

Date: 1921
Description: A woman wearing a fringed shawl is standing in the doorway of a barn holding a basket of eggs.
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Man and Young Boys with Scarecrow

Date: 1915
Description: Older man and two young boys standing near a scarecrow made from a sweater, hat, and pumpkin erected near a shock of corn. The man is holding a jug.
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Men with Corn Harvest

Date: 1908
Description: Men with a mule team pulling a wagon beside bins filled with ears of corn. One of the men appears to be holding a goose near the pile of corn.
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Woman Straining Liquid

Date: 1920
Description: A woman standing under a rooftop near a doorway pouring liquid through what appears to be a cheesecloth strainer and into a clay pot.
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Rotten Well Covering

Date: 03 1926
Description: A child sits on a rotten wooden well covering while playing in the mud with a piece of metal and holding a can marked "Salted Pecans." An automobile is in ...
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Refuse Pile

Date: 03 1926
Description: A refuse pile consisting of glass, a broken basket, bottles, cans, and other items behind a farmhouse. A crumbling foundation is in the background.
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Woman Hauling Water

Date: 1920
Description: A woman carrying two metal buckets full of water away from a well pump near the porch of a farm house.

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