Compiled and written by the Iowa Writers' Program of the Works Projects Administration in the State of Iowa. Jessie M. Parker, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, State-wide Sponser of the Iowa Writers' Program. Sponsored by County...
This photograph illustrates the technique of mane braiding, also called plaiting. Shown is the head and neck of a white Percheron draft horse with ribbon and five alternating dark and light colored flowers braided into the mane along the horse's...
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
Dale Wollsoncroft demonstrating plow adjustment at a training event in State Center, Iowa, in the spring of 1949. A crowd of men is gathered around an instructor who is kneeling on the ground at the front end of a plow that is in turn connected to...
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
A demonstration of plowing with a six-horse and mule hitch, a technique that reduces side draft and increases efficiency. A large gathering of men are on both sides of the furrow as the driver plows ahead toward the end of the field on the image...
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
The operation of a pulverator and drill in an untilled field. The tractor pulling the machinery has unusually light and narrow steel wheels. The photograph is from the rear. A roadway fence line at the edge of the field is in the middle distance.
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
The operation of a rotary hoe, used for early cultivation of corn. The hoe, weighted with four weight boxes, is being pulled by a Farmall rubber tired tractor. The machinery is moving away from the camera across a very large field of very young...
Chemistry; Animal Sciences; Iowa State University;
Technician Jane D. Morley giving an injection of casein into an ear vein of a rabbit in the small animal experimental laboratory in which feeding, injection and metabolism studies on guinea pigs and rabbits were conducted in connection with...
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
A rear view of a steel-wheeled tractor with a spring tooth weeder rear attached for cultivation in a process that kills weeds and levels inter-row soil. The driverless tractor is in the midst of tilling a corn field with corn approximately 20...
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
A driver on a steel-wheeled tractor pulling a plow with an unusual chain gearing system. A tree line in the background is the boundary for the field of corn stubble being plowed.
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
A closeup view of a tractor mounted cultivator with a pair of disk hillers and two pairs of sweeps per row for final corn cultivation. The tractor has steel wheels. The corn being cultivated is approximately three feet high.
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
A rubber tired tractor with an attached field cultivator preparing a seedbed for corn. The tractor is stationary without a driver. It is viewed at middle distance from the rear, in the middle of a large field, untilled except for where this...
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
A tractor-mounted six-row cultivator seen from the rear. One man is driving the tractor.One man is also seated on each of the two rear sections of the cultivator, one on each side of the machine. The machinery and the tractor have steel wheels....
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
A tractor-mounted six-row cultivator seen from the front. One man is driving the tractor.One man is also seated on each of the two rear sections of the cultivator, one on each side of the machine. The machinery and the tractor have steel wheels....
