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Valley Station, Kentucky. John E. Kalmey, age eighteen, hoeing some of his castor bean plants, which is one of his 4-H projects for the year. Last year he only raised one-quarter of an acre, but this year, two and one-half acres, and he hopes to get from 1500 to 2000 puonds of beans to the acre

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Valley Station, Kentucky. John E. Kalmey, age eighteen, hoeing some of his castor bean plants, which is one of his 4-H projects for the year. Last year he only raised one-quarter of an acre, but this year, two and one-half acres, and he hopes to get from 1500 to 2000 puonds of beans to the acre

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Valley Station, Kentucky. John E. Kalmey, age eighteen, hoeing some of his castor bean plants, which is one of his 4-H projects for the year. Last year he only raised one-quarter of an acre, but this year, two and one-half acres, and he hopes to get from 1500 to 2000 puonds of beans to the acre

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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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01/01/1943

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Hollem, Howard R., photographer

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Valley Station, 38.11118, -85.87024

Google Map of 38.1111811, -85.8702413

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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