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Loading Cattle at Sublette
Workers load cattle onto an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway car at Sublette, Kansas, for transport. The Dodge City Daily Globe claims that the workers loaded 23 cars of cattle and three cars of sheep from wheat pasture to market. This…
FFA and 4-H Club Members Attend Dairy Judging School at Fort Dodge
From the Dodge City Daily Globe of April 5, 1952: "Ninety members of the Future Farmers of America from 14 schools of Southwest Kansas and 16 Ford County 4-H Club members were attending a dairy judging school Saturday at the dairy farm at Fort Dodge.…
Wheat Trucks Lined Up
A photograph of trucks lined up to deliver wheat to the Dodge City Cooperative Elevator in 1952.
Dodge City Terminal Elevator
This photograph shows a worker in the Dodge City Terminal Elevator in 1949.
Combine in Field
A photograph of combine, operated by Fred Sproat, drives through a field, harvesting wheat.
Two Grand Champions
A photograph of Richard Birzer (left) and his grand champion Steer and Rita Halbleib (right) and her grand champion heifer at the 1949 Ness County Fair 4-H contest.
Ness County Fair - Walter Rothe
A photograph of Walter Rothe and his award-winning pig, which weighed 675 pounds, at the 1949 Ness County Fair. Rothe was the president of the Kansas Spotted Poland-China Association.
Sugar Beet Plant at Garden City
Two photographs of a sugar beet refinery in Garden City. This was the only sugar beet refinery in Southwest Kansas at the time, according to the Dodge City Daily Globe. The photographs show a train unloading the sugar beets at the refinery, and a…
Pratt Mill and Elevator
Horse-drawn carts and train cars line up at the Pratt Mill and Grain Elevator in Pratt, Kansas.
F.D. Coburn, Secretary of Kansas State Board of Agriculture, in a Ford County, Kansas, Wheat Field
A photograph of F.D. Coburn and several others in a wheat field in Ford County, Kansas. There is an inscription under the photograph of a quote from F.D. Coburn that says "I never saw so much wheat in one day in all my life." The back of the…