06-26-1949 (cutline): Migratory workers on the Eastern Shore sack potatoes after they are turned up by a mechanical differ. Fast workers fill 125 hundred-pound bags in six hours.
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10-07-1954 (cutline): Virginia farm woman.
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05-29-1952: Area farmer uses motorized conveyor to move hay into barn.
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08-24-1953 (cutline): Farmers John Miller and Amos Huffman, joined by Rover, look down on a pleasant scene that family ties have held together as a farm in Page County.
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05-29-1950 (cutline): G.P. Rodgers, in the saddle, and son break out their seeder for a 'dry run.' Wheel-lifting lever, extending over box, is operated by the driver's foot.
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11-25-1949 (cutline): Harvest of Soybeans--J.B. Alvis, Henrico County Farmer, of Route 5, pilots his tractor as we combines a portion of his 70 acres of soybeans. The machine cuts and threshes the soybeans, and, with the help of the boy behind Alvis, bags them. The stalks are thrown back on the ground by a special spreader attachment, and later are plowed under to furnish organic matter for the soil. Alvis keeps enough breans for next year's seed, sets aside a few bags to grind and mix with livestock feed, and sells the rest. Last year Virginia farmers produced 1,749,000 bushels of soybeans, which grossed them $4,110,000.
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07-17-1952 (cutline): Hanover County's Burnette family grows acres of truck crops--Giant fields of tomatoes, cantaloupes and watermelons are being grown virtually at Richmond's back door by the Burnette family, in Hanover County. Horse, Old Doddin pulls sled used for loading tomatoes.
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06-26-1949 (cutline): Migratory workers on the Eastern Shore sack potatoes after they are turned up by a mechanical differ. Fast workers fill 125 hundred-pound bags in six hours.
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