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Silo Filling

Date: 1980
Description: Farmers work cooperatively with their horse teams on silo-filling activities early in autumn. Rows of green forage are created in the fields and carried to...
Painting

A Farm Auction

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Description: An auctioneer, a clerk, and a helper stand on a stage on a farm conducting an auction as potential bidders surround them. Farming equipment and other items...
Painting

Corn Shredding

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Description: Two farm workers in the righthand foreground toss a corn bundle up to the horse-drawn corn shredding machine to be shredded. To the left, a man loads feed ...
Photograph

Man Plowing in Field

Date: 1918
Description: Side view of man using an International Harvester Titan 10-20 tractor and a Janesville three bottom plow to work in a field. Farm buildings are in the far ...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Men Pouring Cement for Silo Foundation

Date: 1920
Description: Two men wearing hats pouring cement from a bucket into a wooden form to build a foundation for a silo. Behind them is a farm building.
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Men Pouring Cement for Silo Construction

Date: 1915
Description: Four men working at a site for the construction of a silo. They are pouring cement for its foundation.
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Men Digging for Future Silo

Date: 1915
Description: Three men breaking ground for a silo.
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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 Spreading Cement on Silo Wall

Date: 1915
Description: Man spreading cement on the wall of a silo.
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Two Men at Silo Construction Site

Date: 1915
Description: One man is using a hand crank to pull a bucket of earth from the bottom of a pit silo. Another man stands behind him.
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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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Group Gathered at Farming Exhibition

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated view of group of people gathered in outdoor pavilion for an exhibition or fair. Truck in the foreground has a sign that reads: "Kansas State Agric...
Photograph

Men Working on Construction of Silo

Date: 1915
Description: Men working on the construction site for a new silo. Three men work in a pit to establish the foundation, and three other men work in the background near a...
Photograph

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 Silage from Trench Silo on Wagon

Date: 1924
Description: View looking down snow-covered slope towards a horse attached to a small sleigh standing in a trench. At the back of the trench a man is pitching silage fr...
Photograph

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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Mixing Superphosphate

Date: 10 1930
Description: A man standing on the back of a McCormick-Deering manure spreader to pour superphosphate over manure at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental far...

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