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21. Harvesting oats
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"Harvesting a good crop of oats on the Arthur Horn ranch in 1916. Along with the assurance of an ample supply of irrigation water out of Rock Creek, this soil is very productive. In the background is Table Rock, a lava formation separating Rock and Egeria Creeks. The top of the rock is mostly sagebrush with some cedars and pinyons scattered through it. Until 1950 there was clear evidence of an Indian arrowhead makers' camp including a round area about...
22. Potato sorter
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A potato sorter (pulled by horse) shakes potatoes of similar sizes into sacks during the potato harvest on the Sherman Brothers Ranch.
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"Ray" [processing date Aug 65]
Ray Miller working a baler in the hayfield.
"New Holland brand baler, with power provided by mounted engine. Towed by International Farmall tractor, either H or probably M. Baler is newer than the tractor." -- Stu Dykstra, Feb. 2015
24. The Sorter Gang
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Joe Edwards at far left. The men are sorting potatoes by size into sacks, the sorting equipment being pulled by a horse.
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Workers digging and sacking potatoes in the field. Two horses with potato boxes are at the right with field workers sacking from the boxes. A horse team is at the left, possibly digging potatoes.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
26. Haas Barn
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Putting hay into Haas barn at Sandstone Creek Ranch. From left: Jim Fanning, Frank Haas, Cliff Ingram, -----; Chuck Becker is on top of the hay wagon.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Three children and a ladder next to a very large haystack on the Sherman Ranch, July 1914.
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1930-1940: Using a Mormon Derrick to lift hay onto a rick. Horse team in midground; farmer standing on hayrick.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
29. Picking lettuce
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Looking across a lettuce field at wokers filling lettuce crates. Hillside in background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
30. Alfalfa cutting
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Fall cutting of alfalfa on the Pearch place using a two-horse team. There is a couple standing to the left of the horses, the woman holding a child on her hip. [Thomas Pearch was born in 1917 so it could be he.] A boy is seated on the seat of the cutter with a woman standing next to him.
Vern (Elmo Levern) Pearch was born in 1878 and came to Leadville in 1881. Several years later, he located a homestead on Squaw creek. "He was always interested...
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1900-1910: Team of three horses pulling a cutter harvesting oats on the Sherman Ranch near Eagle, Colorado. Driver's head and whip visible.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Threshing crew on the Borah Ranch, Eagle, 1914. Man on top feeding the thresher; chaff blown out; men bagging at right.
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An overshot hay stacker on the Nogal property in Eagle, Colorado. It is also called a Mormon stacker/derrick.
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Frank Schoonover sitting on potato digger with Joe Dice (7 or 8 years old) standing, facing the camera. The digger is pulled by a 4-head team during potato harvest on the Shryack Place, lower Brush Creek. Farm buildings in right background.
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Disk harvester pulled by a team of horses is harvesting potatoes on the Sherman Brothers Ranch.
36. Lettuce harvest
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A truck load of lettuce bound for the Allenton lettuce sheds, near Edwards, Colorado, in 1932. The Penney family is on the truck.
37. Rundell ranch
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"Sheephorn ranch."
Photo postcard showing a hay stacker in a field with teams of horses and the stacker rakes.
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"Stacking alfalfa hay with a Mormon stacker on the Conger Mesa Schrupp ranch in 1912. In those days, after hay was cut and raked it was first put in shocks and when ready to be stacked it was loaded on slips or wagons with a fork after hay slings had been placed on the bed of the slip or wagon. Arriving at the stack yard, the stacker, operated by the same horses that brought in the load, picks up the sling load of hay, raises and swings it around...
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Stacking hay using a horse team and a Mormon derrick on the J over J Ranch (now the 4 Eagle Ranch) north of Wolcott, Colorado. The Ranch was originally homesteaded by John Welsh and later run by his son-in-law, Charles Hartman. Tractors were never used on the ranch before it left the family in 1930.
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Hay field with cut hay on the Bar-Gay Ranch, Edwards, Colorado. Horse team at midfield.