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Helper on wagonload of wheat to be threshed on Beerman's ranch at Emblem, Wyoming. He has about 150 acres in all (quarter section), about forty-three in wheat; the rest in oats, beans, and alfalfa. This year they are getting between fifty-five and sixty bushels wheat per acre, whereas ordinarily he gets about forty bushels per acre. He has lived on the place forty years, owned it for the past twenty years.

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Helper on wagonload of wheat to be threshed on Beerman's ranch at Emblem, Wyoming. He has about 150 acres in all (quarter section), about forty-three in wheat; the rest in oats, beans, and alfalfa. This year they are getting between fifty-five and sixty bushels wheat per acre, whereas ordinarily he gets about forty bushels per acre. He has lived on the place forty years, owned it for the past twenty years.

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Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer worker, 20th-century dust bowl, great depression era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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Date

01/01/1941
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Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer
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Location

big horn county
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

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