Farming Methods Collection (page 3)

Tractors with pneumatic tires are replacing mules on the Delta plantations, Arkansas, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tractors with pneumatic tires are replacing mules on the Delta plantations. Arkansas

Dust storm near Mills, New Mexico, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Dust storm near Mills, New Mexico

A corral practically buried by drifted dust, Mills, New Mexico. 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
A corral practically buried by drifted dust. Mills, New Mexico. Therefore, the fertile top soil of a grazing area cannot be utilized

An example of how listing soil into furrows helps impede erosion, Mills, New Mexico, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
An example of how listing soil into furrows helps impede erosion. Mills, New Mexico

Dust storm, New Mexico, Spring 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Dust storm. It was conditions of this sort which forced many farmers to abandon the area. Spring 1935. New Mexico

Fence corner and outbuilding being buried by dust, Mills, New Mexico, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Fence corner and outbuilding being buried by dust. Misuse of lands is the chief cause of results such as this. Mills, New Mexico

Discouraged farmers have been leaving this area over a period of years... Mills, New Mexico, 1935
Discouraged farmers have been leaving this area over a period of years, leaving their heavy equipment in the fields. Mills, New Mexico

Soil erosion in California hills, small dairy ranch near Gibson, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Soil erosion in California hills. Small dairy ranch near Gibson, California

Purchasing farm under Bankhead-Jones Act, near Stockton, California, November 17, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Stockton, California. November 17, 1938. One of six successful applicants out of seventy-five. Purchasing farm under Bankhead Jones Act

Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. Productive dairy farm replaces unsuccessful fruit orchard. Family had been on relief

Ex-tenants, now day laborers, Ellis County, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Ex-tenants, now day laborers. Ellis County, Texas

This man was a tenant on the same farm for eighteen years... Ellis County, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
This man was a tenant on the same farm for eighteen years. He has six children. This year he was forced into status of day laborer on the same farm

Industrialized agriculture, from Texas farmer to migratory worker in California, Kern County, 1938
Industrialized agriculture. From Texas farmer to migratory worker in California. Kern County

All-crop harvesting, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Twenty-four clients of Farm Security Administration (FSA) under the Rural Rehabilitation program, have cooperatively bought and cooperatively operated an all-crop harvester

All-crop harvesting, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Twenty-four clients of Farm Security Administration (FSA) under the Rural Rehabilitation program, have cooperatively bought and cooperatively operated an all-crop harvester

All-crop harvesting, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Twenty-four clients of Farm Security Administration (FSA) under the Rural Rehabilitation program, have cooperatively bought and cooperatively operated an all-crop harvester

Along the main travel artery through San Joaquin Valley, California, U.S. 99, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Along the main travel artery through San Joaquin Valley, California, U.S. 99. [Pacific Tractor & Equipment Corporation - equipment for sale or for rent - used tractor parts]

Sugar beet field freshly plowed by tractor with plowshare...Mexican operator, CA, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Sugar beet field freshly plowed by tractor with plowshare attached and showing Mexican operator. California

Sharecropper cultivating cotton with team, Near Shreveport, Louisiana, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Sharecropper cultivating cotton with team. This is a step above the primitive method. Near Shreveport, Louisiana

Land cut over by lumber company and not replanted, Greene County, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Land cut over by lumber company and not replanted. Greene County, Georgia

Cut-over long leaf yellow pine forest, Near Kiln, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cut-over long leaf yellow pine forest. The tract extends for thirty-seven miles. A lumber industry owner did no replanting and cut out on 1931 after eighteen years of operations

The cotton sharecropper's unit, Greene County, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The cotton sharecropper's unit is one mule and the land he can cultivate with a one-horse plow. Greene County, Georgia

Erosion, Greene County, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Erosion. Greene County, Georgia

Tractor in cotton, near Corsicana, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tractor in cotton. Near Corsicana, Texas

The tractor pulls a riding plow, near Centrae, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mechanization proceeds by stages. Here the tractor pulls a riding plow. Next stages are two four-row cultivators cultivating more rows and eliminating the man on the cultivator, near Centrae, Texas

Farmer and son near Stanton, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farmer and son near Stanton, Texas. Haven't made a crop of cotton since 1932

Seven-horse disc used in cultivating corn, Tulare County, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Seven-horse disc used in cultivating corn. Tulare County, California

Disc drawn by seven horses used in the cornfields of California, Tulare County, California, 1937
Disc drawn by seven horses used in the cornfields of California. Tulare County

Disc drawn by seven horses used in the cornfields of California, Tulare County, California, 1937
Disc used in corn fields in California. It is drawn by seven horses. Tulare County, California

Abandoned farm, Coldwater District, north of Dalhart, Texas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Abandoned farm. Coldwater District, north of Dalhart, Texas

Cotton hoers, Memphis, Tennessee, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
These cotton hoers work only seasonally on the plantations. The rest of the year they live on odd jobs and relief. Memphis, Tennessee

Aftermath of irrigation boom and subsequent collapse of cotton, Nyland, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Aftermath of irrigation boom and subsequent collapse of cotton in California, 1921. Nyland, California

Irrigation pump on edge of field, San Joaquin Valley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Irrigation pump on edge of field. Electric power typical of San Joaquin Valley farming. Tulare County, California

Irrigation pump on edge of field, San Joaquin Valley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Irrigation pump on edge of field. Electric power typical of San Joaquin Valley farming. California

A Spanish-American village in the foothills of the Sangre... Trampas, Taos County, New Mexico
A Spanish-American village in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains dating back to 1700 which was once a sheep raising center, Trampas, Taos County, New Mexico

Planting corn along a river in Tennessee, 1940. Creator: Marion Post Wolcott
Planting corn along a river in Tennessee

Planting corn along a river in northeastern Tennessee, 1940. Creator: Marion Post Wolcott
Planting corn along a river in northeastern Tennessee

Spreading fertilizer from 4-mule team wagon, Georgia, ca. 1940. Creator: Marion Post Wolcott
Spreading fertilizer from 4-mule team wagon, Georgia. [Georgia oat field? Southern U.S.]

Harvesting new corn from the field of Jim Norris, Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940. Creator: Russell Lee
Harvesting new corn from the field of Jim Norris, Pie Town, New Mexico

Bill Stagg turning up pinto beans, Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940. Creator: Russell Lee
Bill Stagg turning up pinto beans, Pie Town, New Mexico

Threshing, midsummer noon. Five miles west of Malin. Klamath County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Threshing, midsummer noon. Five miles west of Malin. Klamath County, Oregon

Tying carrots in Imperial Valley, near Meloland, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tying carrots in Imperial Valley. Near Meloland, California

Large-scale, mechanized farming - potato planter, Kern County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Kern County, California. Large-scale mechanized farming. The potato planter, operated by a crew of three men, makes the rows, fertilizes and plants potatoes in one operation

Possibly: Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, Florida, 1943. Creator: Gordon Parks
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune-Cookman College. Scene on the agricultural school farm]

Shocked corn in field of FSA borrower, Sunset Valley, Malheur County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Shocked corn in field of FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower. Sunset Valley, Malheur County, Oregon. [Corn arranged into shocks or stooks for drying]

Stephen brothers, Nyssa Heights district, Malheur County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Stephen brothers. Joe, Jim, Eugene, Fred. All from Nebraska. All good farmers. Their combine purchased by FSA (Farm Security Administration) cooperators loan

Stephen brothers, Joe, Jim, Eugene, Fred, Nyssa Heights district, Malheur County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Stephen brothers. Joe, Jim, Eugene, Fred. All from Nebraska. All good farmers. Their combine purchased by FSA (Farm Security Administration) cooperators loan

Field of corn in shock on farm of FSA borrower, Sunset Valley, Malheur County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Field of corn in shock on farm of FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower. Sunset Valley, Malheur County, Oregon. [Corn arranged into shocks or stooks for drying]

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