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Pasture Display
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A portable exhibit in a box with a hinged lid has been set up on a stand covered with corrugated paper. A sign inside the box lid describes the benefits of improved pasture over woods pasture. In the box is a model of cows in wooded and open pasture. A small, cut pine tree is propped against the far side of the display.
1940
Wisconsin. Conservation Department
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