Farmer

82 photos

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Mennonite farmer and wife selling fowl at the farmer's market

Mr. Wardlow, drought area farmer, adjusting to a Western farm. Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon

George Cleaver, new farmer, has five boys. The three older boys, ages twelve, sixteen, and eighteen, are needed at home to develop the farm and do not go to school. Malheur County, Oregon

Oklahoman, worked three years as farm laborer, starts next year on his own place. Quit school after third day. Can neither read nor write. Is "best farm laborer" this farmer ever had. Near Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon

Here are the farmers who have bought machinery cooperatively. Photographed just before they go to dinner on the Miller farm where they are working. West Carlton, Yamhill County, Oregon

Seven of the eight farmers shown with their cooperatively owned ensilage cutter on the Miller farm, where they are working filling the silo. West Carlton, Yamhill County, Oregon. General caption number 58

Drought-stricken farmer and family near Muskogee, Oklahoma. Agricultural day laborer. Muskogee County

Former Nebraska farmer, now a migrant farm worker. Klamath County, Oregon. See general caption number 62-111

Mr. and Mrs. Chris Ament, dry land wheat farmers who survived in the Columbia Basin. Washington, Grant County, three miles south of Quincy. See general caption number 35

Young girl, daughter of small pear farmer tends her calf. She belongs to the 4-H Club, the largest movement among rural youth in America. Oregon. Jackson County, near Medford

Tobacco sharecropper tells about his prospects. Person County, North Carolina

Mr. Taylor, tobacco sharecropper, relaxes when the tobacco has been "put up." Granville County, North Carolina

Wife of tenant farmer, Mrs. Oakley, works stringing tobacco during the harvest season. Granville County, North Carolina

Ten year old son of tobacco sharecropper can do a "hand's work" at tobacco harvest time. Granville County, North Carolina

Topping tobacco. Shoofly, North Carolina

Mr. Whitfield, tobacco sharecropper, with baby on front porch. North Carolina, Person County

Tobacco farmer, owner of 100 acres. Person County, North Carolina

Sharecropper with wife and child in their tobacco field. Note that the tobacco grows up to the front porch. Near Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Tenant farmer and friend. Chatham County, North Carolina

Tobacco sharecropper. Person County, North Carolina

White sharecropper, Mr. Taylor, has just finished priming this field of tobacco. Granville County, North Carolina

Tobacco sharecropper with his oldest daughter. Person County, North Carolina

Tulare County, at Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp at Farmersville, California

Between Tulare and Fresno on U.S. 99. Farmer from Independence, Kansas, on the road at cotton chopping time. He and his family have been in California for six months