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1 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Sugar beets) Chapter 8 Illustration, before page 56: From the weighing in room, the beets were carried by conveyor belt to the storage piles.P0244 Olive Woolley Burt Photograph CollectionP0244add1n1_12_0434
2 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Farming) Chapter 2 Illustration, before page 10: Mr. Travis had spread manure over the field, and then plowed that manure into the ground.P0244 Olive Woolley Burt Photograph CollectionP0244add1n1_12_0435
3 "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.P0244 Olive Woolley Burt Photograph CollectionP0244add1n1_12_0437
4 "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)P0244 Olive Woolley Burt Photograph CollectionP0244add1n1_12_0438
5 "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.P0244 Olive Woolley Burt Photograph CollectionP0244add1n1_12_0439
6 "Peter's Sugar Farm" (Farming) Chapter 4 Illustration, before page 25: [Robert Brown,] Peter's father removed the headgate, and the water ran into their ditch.P0244 Olive Woolley Burt Photograph CollectionP0244add1n1_12_0440
7 "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
8 "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
9 "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
10 "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
11 "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
12 "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
13 "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
14 "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
15 "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
16 "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
17 "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
18 "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
19 "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
20 "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
21 "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
22 "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
23 "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
24 "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
25 "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
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