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Title: 1953 Iowa Corn Picking Contest Winners
Description: Jack Waterbeck, fourth from the left holding plaque, after winning the 1953 two-row division Iowa corn picking contest. The contest was held in a field north of Blairstown and was sponsored by WMT Radio. Mr. Waterbeck had a new International Harvester corn picker on an International Harvester Super MTA tractor. Mr. Waterbeck, from Hartwick, Iowa, went on to take third place nationally.
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:27221

Title: Better Farm Accounting 1950, 1950 Farm Record
Description: Better Farm Accounting, second edition, a practical guide by Iowa State College Farm Management Specialists, prepared by Herbert B. Howell. Copyright 1946 and 1947 by the Iowa State College Press, Ames, Iowa. This volume, labeled 1950, contains records for the Raymond S. Pilgrim farm which was located in the northeast quarter of Section 27 of Grant Township in Poweshiek County, Iowa. Contains tables for records of livestock production, dairy sales, egg sales, livestock sales of animals raised and bought, purchases of livestock, crop sales, miscellaneous receipts, machinery bought and sold, farm expenses, net income statement, inventories of feed and seed, inventories of livestock, net worth, and crop record and map. Summaries can be used as the basis for filing income tax returns.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:30013

Title: Better Farm Accounting 1951, 1951 Farm Record
Description: Better Farm Accounting, second edition, a practical guide by Iowa State College Farm Management Specialists, prepared by Herbert B. Howell. Copyright 1947 by the Iowa State College Press, Ames, Iowa. This volume, labeled 1951, contains records for the Raymond S. Pilgrim farm which was located in the northeast quarter of Section 27 of Grant Township in Poweshiek County, Iowa. Contains tables for records of livestock production, dairy sales, egg sales, livestock sales of animals raised and bought, purchases of livestock, crop sales, miscellaneous receipts, machinery bought and sold, farm expenses, net income statement, inventories of feed and seed, inventories of livestock, net worth, and crop record and map. Summaries can be used as the basis for filing income tax returns.
Date Created: 1951
PID: grinnell:30014

Title: Better Farm Accounting 1952, 1952 Farm Record
Description: Better Farm Accounting, second edition, a practical guide by Iowa State College Farm Management Specialists, prepared by Herbert B. Howell. Copyright 1947 by the Iowa State College Press, Ames, Iowa. This volume, labeled 1952, contains records for the Raymond S. Pilgrim farm which was located in the northeast quarter of Section 27 of Grant Township in Poweshiek County, Iowa. Contains tables for records of livestock production, dairy sales, egg sales, livestock sales of animals raised and bought, purchases of livestock, crop sales, miscellaneous receipts, machinery bought and sold, farm expenses, net income statement, inventories of feed and seed, inventories of livestock, net worth, and crop record and map. Summaries can be used as the basis for filing income tax returns.
Date Created: 1952
PID: grinnell:30015

Title: Better Farm Accounting 1953, 1953 Farm Record
Description: Better Farm Accounting, second edition, a practical guide by Iowa State College Farm Management Specialists, prepared by Herbert B. Howell. Copyright 1947 by the Iowa State College Press, Ames, Iowa. This volume, labeled 1953, contains records for the Raymond S. Pilgrim farm which was located in the northeast quarter of Section 27 of Grant Township in Poweshiek County, Iowa. Contains tables for records of livestock production, dairy sales, egg sales, livestock sales of animals raised and bought, purchases of livestock, crop sales, miscellaneous receipts, machinery bought and sold, farm expenses, net income statement, inventories of feed and seed, inventories of livestock, net worth, and crop record and map. Summaries can be used as the basis for filing income tax returns.
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:30016

Title: Breniman Horses
Description: Edward Breniman and his son, Wallace, pose with their horses. Photo taken at the Edward Breniman farm in Lincoln Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:27237

Title: Cattle in Winter
Description: Cattle and pigs on the Harry Ryan farm in Sheridan Township in the early 1950s. Snow-covered fields are in the background as is a windmill.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:29803

Title: Freight bill
Description: Freight bill from the Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company to Edward E. Breniman for shipping 4 bags of clover seed and 1 bag of Timothy seed from the Henry Field Seed & Nursery Co., Shenandoah, Iowa, to Brooklyn, Iowa. Dated Feb. 7, 1958.
Date Created: 1958
PID: grinnell:27262

Title: Letter from Frank Thomas to Raymond S. Pilgrim
Description: Letter to Raymond S. Pilgrim of Grinnell, Iowa, from Frank Thomas of the A.W. Thomas Commission Co. at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago, Illinois, concerning the sale of cattle in October 1953. Includes envelope.
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:30058

Title: McCormick Farm Equipment Store
Description: Matchbook cover advertising the McCormick Farm Equipment store in Montezuma, Iowa. The outside of the matchbook has images of International trucks; the inside has the name and address of the local dealer. Matchbook produced by Universal Match Corp.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:12533