"Peter's Sugar Farm" (Farming) Chapter 5 Illustration, before page 25: Bill [Wilson] dipped the siphon into the ditch, filling it with water. When he laid this over the brink of the ditch, with one end in the furrow and one in the water, it acted as a siphon and kept drawing water from the main ditch.

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Title "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Farming) Chapter 5 Illustration, before page 25: Bill [Wilson] dipped the siphon into the ditch, filling it with water. When he laid this over the brink of the ditch, with one end in the furrow and one in the water, it acted as a siphon and kept drawing water from the main ditch.
Photo Number P0244add1n1_12_0439
Description "Peter's Sugar Farm" first edition, copyright 1954, Chapter 4, page 33 illustration (shows a farm worker siphoning water from an irrigation ditch)
Creator David W. Evans Advertising Agency; Utah-Idaho Sugar Co.
Date 1945; 1946; 1947; 1948
Keywords Food industry; Sugar industry; Farming; Agricultural complexes; Farms; Croplands; Water supply systems; Irrigation systems; Beets; Irrigation ditches; Siphons; Surface irrigation; Flood irrigation; Furrow Irrigation; People in agriculture; Farmers; Men; Headgear; Caps (headgear); Baseball caps
Subject Sugar beet industry--Utah--Photographs; Sugar beet--Photographs
Spatial Coverage Salt Lake County (Utah)
Additional Information The Olive Woolley Burt photograph collection consists of photographs used by Olive Burt as research for her works. Many have been reproduced in various books and articles. Included are over 1,000 photographs of Olive Burt and members of her family.
Collection Number and Name P0244 Olive Woolley Burt Photograph Collection
Collection Name Olive Woolley Burt
Relation is Part of Aileen H. Clyde 20th Century Women's Legacy Archive
Rights
Type Image
Finding Aid http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv41589
Digitization Specifications Digital image produced on Epson Expression 10000 XL scanner, 24-bit color at 400 ppi. Archival files are uncompressed TIF.
ARK ark:/87278/s6qn7vmn
Setname uum_map
ID 997808
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6qn7vmn
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