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Main Street

Date: 1873
Description: Main Street, with its dirt, ruts, cows (and presumably manure), but wide enough for easy hitching of wagons and teams.
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Dr. Babcock Milking a Cow

Date: 05 1928
Description: Dr. Stephen Moulton Babcock seated on a stool and milking a cow. Another man stands near the head of the cow. They are in a fenced field near a road, most ...
Painting

Milking Time

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Description: A farm family takes part in milking time. The mother carries a milk can and a stripping bucket while the boy pushes milk cans on a cart toward the barn. Th...
Painting

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

Sweet Clover School

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Description: Exterior view of Sweet Clover School near the end of the school year in late April or early May. Cows graze in an adjoining pasture and a farmer is complet...
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Widmer's Cheese Cellars — Holstein Cattle

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Description: Much of the milk purchased by Widmer's is from Holstein Cattle, as seen grazing in this peaceful country scene.
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Opal Gillespie with Calf

Date: 07 1927
Description: Opal Gillespie standing in a field while feeding a Holstein calf from a metal bucket. Several farm buildings and a fence are in the background.
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Man with Jersey Calves on IH Demonstration Farm

Date: 06 1930
Description: A man is feeding a group of Jersey calves from a metal bucket. Another man is using a tool to work in a field in the background.
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Dogs Granary — Alternate View

Date: 2004
Description: Cliff and Renoda pose by this old granary.
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Farmer with Cow and Her Calf in Field

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Description: A farmer bends over a young calf in a field. The calf lays at the farmers feet, partially obscured by the long grass. The calf's mother stands nearby looki...
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Farmer Steadying Newborn Calf in Field

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Description: A farmer holds a newborn calf steady as it stands with its mother in an open field. The mother cow nuzzles the calf.
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Herd of Cows in front of Barn

Date: 1932
Description: View from field of a herd of cows behind a fence grazing in a pasture in front of a barn and silo. The silo has a decorative stone pattern. The original ca...
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Cows in Field with Trees

Date: 07 07 1928
Description: A group of cows sit in the shade of trees in a field.
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Man Operating Horse-Drawn Manure Spreader

Date: 04 18 1927
Description: A man wearing a hat sitting on a two-horse manure spreader with farm buildings, an automobile, and a cow in the background. The original caption reads: "Ke...
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Batzler Farm

Date: 08 1983
Description: "Late in the day, the cows return for milking on the Batzler farm."
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Dairy Farms

Date: 1935
Description: Cumulus clouds are casting their shadows over rolling farmland. Several farmsteads are along a narrow road. There are cows grazing in a pasture. On the rev...
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Cows Corralled Before Milking

Date: 05 31 1935
Description: View over fence towards cows in a corral. Men are standing on and near the fence in the background. Two horses are in the field just beyond the cows among ...
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Holy Hill

Date: 1950
Description: Dramatic view of Holy Hill against a sky full of clouds. In the foreground, cows are grazing in fenced fields.

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