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Alexander Lake's Nursery

Date: 1896
Description: A boy and a man are holding up small white pine trees, while workers are planting them at Alexander Lake's nursery. In the background are horses and wagons...
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Horse-Drawn McCormick-Deering Grain Drill

Date: 06 18 1937
Description: Mr. Shansky using a 20-run four-horse McCormick-Deering grain drill on his 300-acre farm in Transcona, Manitoba, Canada.
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F-12 Tractor and African American Field Workers

Date: 04 10 1935
Description: African American field worker levels the ground with a McCormick-Deering F-12 tractor and a rotary scraper in preparation for planting a new crop of celery...
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McKay Nursery Field

Date: 05 07 1937
Description: McKay Nursery field with men planting, and horse teams pulling cultivators.
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Seed Corn Experiment

Date: 1926
Description: Field of seed corn experiment.
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Comparative Infection of "Yellows" in Alfalfa

Date: 1926
Description: Comparative infection of "yellows" in a field of alfalfa and sweet clover.
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International L-120 Truck, W-4 Tractor and Grain Drill

Date: 1950
Description: Slightly elevated view of two farmers working in a field with a truck, tractor and grain drill. One man is unloading bags of seed from an International L-1...
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Farmall C Tractor and C-220 Checkrow Planter

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Description: Slightly elevated view of a farmer in a field operating a McCormick Farmall C tractor with a mounted C-220 checkrow planter.
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Farmall 140 Tractor with Planter

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Description: View towards a man operating a Farmall 140 tractor with attached planter in a field.
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Belle Case La Follette Working in the Garden

Date: 1907
Description: Belle Case La Follette hoeing the garden at Maple Bluff Farm in early spring. Two of her children are working with her, apparently planting seeds, and one ...
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Farmall Drawn Planters

Date: 07 13 1928
Description: Rear view of a man driving a tractor pulling a planter in a field.
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Butch Quirk uses Cub Cadet as Desk Top

Date: 04 1964
Description: Butch Quirk with a Cub Cadet tractor. Original magazine caption states: "Scientific farmer Quirk uses tractor hood as desk top as he records variety of cor...
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Butch Quirk Fills the Hopper

Date: 04 1964
Description: Thirteen-year-old John "Butch" Quick is photographed filling the hopper of his Cub Cadet tractor with fertilizer.
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Farmall C with Cotton Planter

Date: 1950
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man using a Farmall C tractor with a cotton planter attachment to plant cotton in a field. The original caption reads: "C-277 b...
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Planting Cotton with Farmall H

Date: 1950
Description: View towards a man using a McCormick Farmall H tractor with a forward-mounted cotton planter to work in a field. The original caption reads: "'Flat' planti...
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Farmall M Planting Cotton

Date: 1950
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man using a McCormick Farmall M tractor with a forward-mounted cotton planter to work in a field. The original caption reads: "...
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Farmall M with Cotton Planter

Date: 1950
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man using a McCormick Farmall M tractor with a forward mounted cotton planter to work in a field. The original caption reads: "...
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Purdue University Livestock Farm

Date: 1938
Description: Two men use a McCormick-Deering grain drill with a team of four horses and an International D-2 truck to work in a field on the Purdue University livestock...
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Vilas Park Island Tree Planting

Date: 05 13 1950
Description: More than 150 Madison high school pupils recruited through the Madison Youth Council helped plant trees and shrubs on the Vilas Park island.
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Sloping Farmland

Date: 05 17 1966
Description: View uphill towards a farmer planting crops on a treeless slope which rises just beyond him, with a cloudy sky above. Various grasses are growing in the fo...

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