1933 Print Field Corn Beet Agriculture Farm Field Crops Clover Labor Acreage FZ2 YTMM5 plum blossoms

plum blossoms

25 x 6 inches

Keywords specific to this image: cruising

and the peoples of these countries as they appeared circa the 1890's

Showing Grinding of the Mountain Face (Selkirk Mountains)

1933 Print Field Corn Beet Agriculture Farm Field Crops Clover Labor Acreage FZ2 YTMM5 plum blossomsThis is an original 1933 halftone print of a farmer's field. The caption writes, "Such cloven fields bear witness to the peculiar problems of beet raising. Left: corn, planted because beets can unsex the most teeming earth. So crops must be rotated for curly top blights the leaves and vampirish little nematodes nurse at the sweet roots of beets when they are grown for too long in the same soil" Photography by Arthur Gerlach. Gerlach worked with