Saturday, December 19, 2015

Plant away, Archie


Archie Anderson with his Three Tractor
planting winter wheat 1930
Grand Encampment, Wyoming 
photo Ted Higby

3 comments:

  1. How did they plant without planter boxes? Maybe they are disking, or cultivating...

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  2. Given the uneven and lumpy ground, doesn't it look more as though they were cutting? ...but had yet to swathe it into rows?

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  3. There are some wonderful ol pics and reading if you go to: Grand Encampment - Page 33 - Google Books Result
    https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0738588822

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