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Agriculture
From the Hillsboro Star-Journal. Caption reads "Plowing under - While Ron is combining, his son, Darrin (front), and brother, Allen (rear) are busy…
Agriculture
From the Goessel Gazette. Caption reads, "To save - or to throw away - that is the question when it comes to the preservation of the once-fine barns…
Agriculture
Pictured is a young John Bergey atop an upside-down wheat truck in a pasture. Handwritten caption: 1947, Summer, Western KS, Cab over Engine Ford,…
Agriculture
Caption handwritten on front; "Harvest Tour with Lyle Yost"
Agriculture
Three men smilingly examine a tractor lying on its side, which appears to have two broken axles. Handwritten on back: "Tractor hit by large truck…
Agriculture
Photo shows three men examining a wheat truck upside-down in a pasture. Handwritten on back: "Wheat truck wreck. Hesston, KS, 1944-1945? Lyle…
Agriculture
Photo of John Deere 5020 tractor.
Agriculture
Farmer plowing and fertilizing a field outside of Hesston.
Agriculture
Photo of John Deere Backhoe Loader ("500 series A" handwritten on back of photo) in front of a field of wheat.
Agriculture
Combine harvester Massey-Ferguson 410 in operation
Agriculture
The D21 was introduced in 1963, and was the largest of the D Series, as well as the first Allis-Chalmers tractor to exceed 100 horsepower and the…
Agriculture
Photo of unknown person sitting in Oliver 1850 Tractor
Agriculture
"Stack Hand" picks up hay, makes stack and moves stack onto the ground.
Agriculture
Stack Handler picks up stack, cuts stack in loose portions, and delivers it to place for feeding. -- typed on back of photo
Agriculture
"When rabbits ate crops, farmers organized a hunt to decrease rabbit populations. W.K Pfautz Produce bought rabbits to ship to New York for food." --…
Agriculture
W.W. Stratton upon the tractor owned by Roy M. Smith and furnished to the city by Smith. It was the only tractor used by the city until approx 1957.…
Agriculture
Photo of wagons bringing grain to the elevator so the grain can be weighed and shipped out.
Agriculture
John Egy Threshing machine -- approx 1913 or 14 and steam engine -- written on back of post card
Agriculture
Steam engine (foreground) as power source to drive a grain threshing machine.