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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: 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: 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

Title: Oval and Mildred Black Farm
Description: The Oval and Mildred Black farm southwest of Ewart, Iowa, about 1950. Mildred was the daughter of Berger and Mabel Stemsrud.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:20651

Title: Snow Drift
Description: A snow drift on the Ryan farm in Sheridan Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa, looms over one of the Ryan children standing in front of an outbuilding. A corn crib appears in the background.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:29805

Title: Wallace's Team
Description: Wallace Breniman's horse team, photo taken on the farm near Guernsey, Iowa. By 1950 Breniman used a tractor for most of his farming.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:27254

Title: Winter Snowstorm on the Ryan Farm
Description: Sue and Ruth Ann Ryan negotiate gigantic snowdrifts after a snowstorm on their farm in Sheridan Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa, about 1950. The family took a sled across country to the Sheridan store to buy groceries as all of the roads were blocked. The snow was so deep that one could walk over the fences.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:29804

Title: Winter on the Farm
Description: Winter view of the Harry Ryan farm in Sheridan Township in the early 1950s. The farm was close to Sheridan School #4. Cattle and pigs are visible as well as the house, barn and various outbuildings, a truck, a 1950s automobile and an Allis-Chalmers tractor.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:29802