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Three men operate a tractor through a cornfield spreading insectisides with two other men walking alongside it. Text above photograph 'Corn Borer damage on sweet corn planted the last week of April and up to the first half of May has been increasing each year. Marketable sweet corn cannot be produced through that period without insecticides and each year it takes greater coverage to do the job. They started with 3 and now are satisfied with 5 applications.' Photograph taken in Hancock County

1. Spreading Insecticides by Tractor in the Cornfield

Man standing next to a tractor with a belt attached to it in Hancock County.

2. Farmer With His Tractor, Hancock County

Candid portrait of C.C. Herron, the conservation farmer of the year 1949, in his Hancock County cornfield.

3. Herron, C. C., Conservation Farmer of the Year Standing in His Cornfield in Hancock County

View of the C.C. Herron Farm in Hancock County.

4. Herron, C. C.'s Farm in Hancock County

Farm pond on the A.H. Hillyard farm with a man casting his fishing line.  Caption reads, 'Farm ponds are still increasing.  This one on the A. H. Hillyard Farm not only provides excellent fishing but water supply for irrigating vegetables as well. (Benton Hazellat, Chairman North Panhandle Soil Conservation District)'

5. Hillyard's Farm Pond in Hancock County