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    Identifier

    FLSC_TJPC_01272017_0466

    Publication Date

    8-15-1916

    Description

    This black and white photographic postcard features the Robb Farm in Scott County, Kansas. Two horses stand next to a tractor and one man holds the reins. A pile of wheat is to the right and three men use pitchforks to shovel the wheat into the threshing machine. One man stands on top of the thresher. Another pile of wheat to the right of the machine depicts two men with pitchforks standing on top of the stack. A man with a wagon and horses is in the background. There is hand printed text at the bottom of the card. There is printed text on the back of the card.

    Physical Description

    4"x 5" photographic postcard

    Subject

    Scott County (Kan.), Homesteading, Croplands, Farming, Land use, Irrigation, Machinery--1900-1920, Advertisements, Wheat

    Rights

    This item is in the public domain

    Publisher

    Digitized by FHSU Digital Collections

    Comments

    For questions or to request permissions, contact ScholarsRepository@fhsu.edu

    Language

    eng

    Transcription

    Threshing Wheat For L. S. Robb Scott Co. Kansas Yield 33 ½ Per Acre Test 63 lbs. Buy Land in Scott County. Scotty City, Kansas, August 15, 1916. Three bumper crops of wheat and corn in succession. This year’s average yield of wheat twenty bushels or better. Best of level land, ample railroad facilities and market, good towns, abundance of best water, low taxes, best of well located lands at prices ranging from $15.00 to $25.00, on easy terms at six per cent interest. O. D. Andrews, resident agent, Hutchinson. The Scott County Land Company Scott City, Kansas.

    Postcard: Threshing Wheat for L.S. Robb, Scott County, Kansas. Yield 33.5 Per Acre, Test 63 Lbs.

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