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201 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Farming) Chapter 4 Illustration, before page 25: The head stream was lined with cement in order to prevent the wasting of water by seepage through the soil.P0244 Olive Woolley Burt Photograph CollectionP0244add1n1_12_0441
202 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Farming) Chapter 7 Illustration, page 60: Peter found that topping beets by hand required a special knack. (10 year old Eulalie Howell is an expert at topping, just ask her Dad.)P0244 Olive Woolley Burt Photograph CollectionP0244add1n1_12_0442
203 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Farming) Chapter 4 Illustration, before page 23: Mr. Jensen irrigated in the old-fashioned way, by running the water from the head stream down through the furrows of the field.P0244 Olive Woolley Burt Photograph CollectionP0244add1n1_12_0443
204 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Farming) Chapter 5 Illustration, before page 29: When the "true leaves" showed above the ground, it was time to thin the beets.P0244 Olive Woolley Burt Photograph CollectionP0244add1n1_12_0444
205 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Farming) Chapter 5 Illustration, before page 30: When they got tired of stooping over, the workers knelt down to thin the beets.P0244 Olive Woolley Burt Photograph CollectionP0244add1n1_12_0445
206 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Farming) Chapter 4 Illustration, before page 25: Down the rows went Bill [Wilson] and Mr. [Robert] Brown, keeping the water moving along the furrows.P0244 Olive Woolley Burt Photograph CollectionP0244add1n1_12_0446
207 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Farming) Chapter 4 Illustration, before page 25: The water must be kept moving down the furrows, so the plants won't be flooded out.P0244 Olive Woolley Burt Photograph CollectionP0244add1n1_12_0447
208 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Farming) Chapter 5 Illustration, before page 28: The rows of beets were just 26 inches apart. (Sangers Farm, American Fork, Utah)P0244 Olive Woolley Burt Photograph CollectionP0244add1n1_12_0448
209 "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.P0244 Olive Woolley Burt Photograph CollectionP0244add1n1_12_0449
210 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Machinery) Chapter 2 Illustration, before page 11: The winter-bound soil had to be cut and loosened before the seeds could be planted. Peter like to see the dark earth turned up to the sun.P0244 Olive Woolley Burt Photograph CollectionP0244add1n1_12_0450
211 "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.P0244 Olive Woolley Burt Photograph CollectionP0244add1n1_12_0451
212 "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.P0244 Olive Woolley Burt Photograph CollectionP0244add1n1_12_0452
213 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Machinery) Chapter 8 Illustration, before page 51: The mechanical loader saves a lot of time and back-breaking work.P0244 Olive Woolley Burt Photograph CollectionP0244add1n1_12_0453
214 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Machinery) Chapter 2 Illustration, page 15: Bill dumped the commercial fertilizer into the metal containers attached to the tractor.P0244 Olive Woolley Burt Photograph CollectionP0244add1n1_12_0454
215 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Machinery) Chapter 2 Illustration, before page 11: The fall before, the farm owner had plowed into the soil the stubble from the field and manure in order to put plant food back into the soil.P0244 Olive Woolley Burt Photograph CollectionP0244add1n1_12_0455
216 "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.P0244 Olive Woolley Burt Photograph CollectionP0244add1n1_12_0456
217 "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.P0244 Olive Woolley Burt Photograph CollectionP0244add1n1_12_0457
218 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Machinery) Chapter 5 Illustration, before page 30: Sometimes the fertilizer is applied after the beets are growing.P0244 Olive Woolley Burt Photograph CollectionP0244add1n1_12_0458
219 "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.P0244 Olive Woolley Burt Photograph CollectionP0244add1n1_12_0459
220 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Machinery) Chapter 2 Illustration, before page 10: "Green manure"--the plants and weeds and stubble on the field, is often plowed under in order to put plant food back into the soil.P0244 Olive Woolley Burt Photograph CollectionP0244add1n1_12_0460
221 "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.)P0244 Olive Woolley Burt Photograph CollectionP0244add1n1_12_0461
222 "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.P0244 Olive Woolley Burt Photograph CollectionP0244add1n1_12_0462
223 "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.P0244 Olive Woolley Burt Photograph CollectionP0244add1n1_12_0463
224 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Machinery) Chapter 2 Illustration, before page 12A: Bill drove the tractor down the field, fertilizing six rows at a time.P0244 Olive Woolley Burt Photograph CollectionP0244add1n1_12_0464
225 "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.P0244 Olive Woolley Burt Photograph CollectionP0244add1n1_13_0465
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