Units included with this Open Author resource:

Farms shocks of oats- oats fed horses-straw used for bedding animals

Keywords:

Iowa History, Primary Sources, Farm Families, Images, Farm Work

Petersmeyer family broke sod in 1876 and started farm school in home

Keywords:

Iowa History

6-8 ft Big Bluegrass was nearly-some say all eradicated by farming

Keywords:

Iowa History

Farmer feeding pigs

Keywords:

Iowa History

Farms  plowed field of black soil

Farms farmer driving to teams of draft horses pulling grain wagon

Farms farmer during depression 1936

Farms farmer in winter

Farms farmer with 5 riding horses instead of the usual 2 draft horses

Farms farmer with draft horses in front of barn

Farms immigrant family

Farms farmer with riding horse

Farms farmer- team of draft horses Prince-Joe 1946 replaced by tractors

Farms typical 1940s when tractors replaced horses-decreased  labor needs

Farms with buildings labeled to typical 1940' self sufficient farm

Farms women chores

Farms-  Chautauqua building  8th grade graduations and agricultural fairs

Farms- prairie grass fires stopped by backfires and plowing prairie

Farms- threshing machine which was used by a group of farmers

Farm children grandfather teaching grandson to drive team of horses

Farm children doing chore of feeding orphan animals

Farms  farmstead 1870s  of Sebastian Bueller