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576 "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; 1948Image
577 "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; 1948Image
578 "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; 1948Image
579 "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; 1948Image
580 "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; 1948Image
581 "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; 1948Image
582 "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; 1948Image
583 "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; 1948Image
584 "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; 1948Image
585 "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; 1948Image
586 "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; 1948Image
587 "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; 1948Image
588 "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; 1948Image
589 "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; 1948Image
590 "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; 1948Image
591 "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; 1948Image
592 "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; 1948Image
593 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Processing and production) Chapter 8 Illustration, before page 57: The beets are washed in warm water.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Image
594 "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; 1948Image
595 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Processing and production) Chapter 8 Illustration, before page 58: The shredded beets are soaked in great tanks.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Image
596 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Processing and production) Chapter 8 Illustration, before page 59: The workman opened a valve, and juice ran out into a pail.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Image
597 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Processing and production) Chapter 8 Illustration, before page 60: The juice was run into evaporators, where much of the liquid was evaporated out, leaving a thick, gummy syrup.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Image
598 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Processing and production) Chapter 8 Illustration, before page 63: In a big, clean, barn-like room sacks of sugar were stacked to the ceiling1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Image
599 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Processing and production) Chapter 8 Illustration, before page 63: Trucks carried the sacked sugar to grocery stores and markets.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Image
600 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Processing and production) Chapter 8 Illustration, page 67: In the factory yard were mountains of beets. Railroad cars filled with beets stood waiting to be unloaded.1945; 1946; 1947; 1948Image
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