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1176 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Machinery) Chapter 2 Illustration, before page 12A: This is the way the drill put the fertilizer under the surface fo the field.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
1177 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Machinery) Chapter 2 Illustration, page 15: Bill dumped the commercial fertilizer into the metal containers attached to the tractor.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
1178 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Machinery) Chapter 5 Illustration, before page 30: Clever iron "fingers" turned slowly, taking out the weeds and the extra beet plants.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
1179 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Machinery) Chapter 5 Illustration, before page 30: Sometimes the fertilizer is applied after the beets are growing.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
1180 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Machinery) Chapter 5 Illustration, page 37: From time to time Bill [Wilson] cultivated the field by driving over it a tractor with attachments to loosen the soil so that air could get down to the roots.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
1181 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Machinery) Chapter 7 Illustration, before page 47: Peter's father drove the tractor down through the field, lifting the beets out of the ground. (Allis-Chalmers Model "B" tractor raising sugar beets. Crop yield in this field ran 21 to 22 ton per acre.)1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
1182 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Machinery) Chapter 7 Illustration, before page 48: A good topper can do the job with one swift stroke of the cruel looking knife.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
1183 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Machinery) Chapter 8 Illustration, before page 48: The mechanical harvester went down the field, lifting the beets. "It can do the work of seven men" the salesman said.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
1184 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Machinery) Chapter 8 Illustration, before page 51: Peter thought the mechanical harvester was a clever machine. It lifted the beets and topped them, throwing the tops out into the ground and the beets backward into a bin.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
1185 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Machinery) Chapter 8 Illustration, before page 51: The mechanical loader saves a lot of time and back-breaking work.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
1186 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Machinery) Chapter 8 Illustration, before page 51: When the bin of the topper was filled with topped beets, a truck was driven up and the beets were loaded into it.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
1187 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Machinery) Chapter 8 Illustration, page 61: On Charlie's farm, when the beets were topped, trucks drove into the field and the workers threw the beets in.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
1188 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Navajo workers) Chapter 6 Illustration, page 52: The Navahos are good workers, and help western farmers during the beet harvest.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
1189 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Navajo workers) Chapter 7 Illustration, before page 43: A long row of army tents made a neat village by the river.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
1190 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Navajo workers) Chapter 7 Illustration, before page 43: The Navaho women wore long, full skirts and tight, velvet blouses. They had a great deal of silver jewelry. The men and boys dressed like any other farm workers.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
1191 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Navajo workers) Chapter 7 Illustration, before page 55: The sugar company had set up army tents for the Navaho workers.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
1192 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Navajo workers) Chapter 7 Illustration, page 54: Whole families of Navahos are brought by truck to work in the beet fields.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
1193 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Processing and production) Chapter 8 Illustration, before page 52: A long line of gondola cars moves sugar beets across Utah from farm to factory.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
1194 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Processing and production) Chapter 8 Illustration, before page 52: Bill [Wilson] drove the truck to the sugar factory.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
1195 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Processing and production) Chapter 8 Illustration, before page 52: Some farmers load their beets into gondola cars to be shipped to the factory.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
1196 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Processing and production) Chapter 8 Illustration, before page 55: The beets were run over a screen, where the loose dirt was shaken off.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
1197 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Processing and production) Chapter 8 Illustration, before page 57: A man in boots used a beet fork to keep the waste moving down the flume.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
1198 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Processing and production) Chapter 8 Illustration, before page 57: The beets are washed in warm water.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
1199 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Processing and production) Chapter 8 Illustration, before page 57: The giant washing machine, where the beets are thoroughly cleaned.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
1200 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Processing and production) Chapter 8 Illustration, before page 58: The shredded beets are soaked in great tanks.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
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