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176 "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.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
177 "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.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
178 "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.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
179 "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)1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
180 "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.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
181 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Farming) Chapter 5 Illustration, before page 30: The wide, ruffled leaves stood up strong and fresh in the sun, and the whole field was a bright green carpet. (Beet field of Frank Parker, Stantan district, Idaho Falls, Idaho)1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
182 "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.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
183 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Farming) Chapter 7 Illustration, before page 45: The high school boys and girls laughed and sang as if they were on a picnic.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
184 "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.)1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
185 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Farming) Chapter 8 Illustration, before page 51: On the Jensen farm, the beets were loaded by hand. (Loading beets on the McCoy beet field are Eulalie and Orvidean Howell and Stanley and Blair Cole)1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
186 "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.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
187 "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.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
188 "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.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
189 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Machinery) Chapter 2 Illustration, before page 12A: Bill drove the tractor down the field, fertilizing six rows at a time.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Imageuum_map
190 "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
191 "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
192 "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
193 "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
194 "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
195 "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
196 "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
197 "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
198 "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
199 "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
200 "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
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