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![Picture of a house surrounded by fields. Text on back reads, 'So land [sic] as the existing buidings stand much of poorer land will remain in use. Their replacement in the Dekalb stony loam and Dekalm stony silt loam land is ordinarily not an economical investment.' U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Agricultural Economies, Photographic Section number 18433.](/thumb/001611.jpg "West Virginia Farm Land")
- IDNO:
- 001611
- Title:
- West Virginia Farm Land
- Date:
- undated
- Description:
- Picture of a house surrounded by fields. Text on back reads, 'So land [sic] as the existing buidings stand much of poorer land will remain in use. Their replacement in the Dekalb stony loam and Dekalm stony silt loam land is ordinarily not an economical investment.' U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Agricultural Economies, Photographic Section number 18433.
- IDNO:
- 001614
- Title:
- Atkins Silt Loam in the Broad Valley Bottoms has Always been Used for Growing Hay
- Date:
- undated
- Description:
- Valley with haystacks. Text on back reads, 'The atkins silt loam in the broad valley bottoms has always been used for growing hay.' U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Bureau of Agricultural Economies, Photographic Section, number 18419.
- IDNO:
- 048230
- Title:
- Glenden E. Keaton of Summers County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1965
- Description:
- Keaton stands beside the U. S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service automobile.Keaton was born June 13, 1913 and his father was L. B. Keaton, the former sheriff. G. E. Keaton married Elizabeth Kelly in 1935 and fathered two girls, Margaret and Elaine.
- IDNO:
- 053144
- Title:
- Poultry Processing and Packaging
- Date:
- 1932
- IDNO:
- 053189
- Title:
- Tobacco Curing, Cabell County, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1945
- Description:
- Primed leaves hanging in barn for curing. This grower in Cabell County primed 500 sticks from 1.3 acres of crop.
- IDNO:
- 053191
- Title:
- Tobacco Farm in Cabell County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1900-1940
- Description:
- A field of "Kentucky 16" tobacco in Cabell County. This crop was primed and around 500 sticks were taken from crop of 1.3 acres. Average number of leaves on stalk at time of harvest, after priming, was 16 leaves.
- IDNO:
- 053192
- Title:
- Tobacco Curing, Cabell County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1900-1940
- Description:
- Curing barn in Cabell County, W. Va.
- IDNO:
- 053227
- Title:
- Wheat Harvesting, Kanawha County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1913-1915
- IDNO:
- 053255
- Title:
- County Agent with Purebred Beef Bull, Kanawha County, W. Va.
- Date:
- undated
- Description:
- Reverse of photo reads: "The only purebred beef bull in Kanawha County when B. B. Ezell began as county agent."
- IDNO:
- 053324
- Title:
- C and P Coal Company Strip Mine; Taylor County, W. Va.
- Date:
- undated
- Description:
- Agricultural land being stripped by the C and P Coal Company in Taylor County. After mining, this land will be leveled and sloped for drainage, then restored to productive farm cover.
- IDNO:
- 053326
- Title:
- Conservation Contest Winner from Mason County
- Date:
- 1955
- Description:
- Winner of the conservation farming contest loading equipment with fertilizer.
- IDNO:
- 053338
- Title:
- Father And Son With Corn Crop, Ohio County, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1953
- Description:
- William D Wilhem, left, 1953 corn growing champion, and father, J.W. Wilhelm, right.
