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First Hay
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A woman is driving a horse-drawn hay wagon pulling a hay loader on the William Houser Farm. A child and a man, each with a hay fork, are riding on the load. On the right is the barn, on the left are the bluffs that enclose Sand Lake Coulee.
1952
Larsson, Harry
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Haying
1950
Haying on the farm with dramatic clouds in the background. The John Deere tractor is pulling the chopper as it empties into a wagon.
Contour Farming
1950
Aerial view of a farm and surrounding fields farmed with the contour method. Shocks of grain dot several of the fields.
Threshing on Peter Pflaum Farm
Farm workers spreading hay onto two haystacks on farm on the east side of Highway 51 north of Pflaum Road. Three teams of horses, wearing fly-nets, are providing horse sweep power. Two or three fin...
Hay Loader Filling Wagon
July 7, 1928
View across field towards a man and a boy standing on hay on top of a horse-drawn wagon. On the right is a hay loader filling the wagon. In the background is a large barn and a windmill.
