Keywords: Haskell County, Kansas. Virtually every farm in the county is primarily dependent upon wheat, althou . . . - NARA - 522290.tif Scope and content Full caption reads as follows Haskell County Kansas Virtually every farm in the county is primarily dependent upon wheat although a number of farmers plant sorghums and small grains for feed and sale raise feeders or sheep keep large flocks of hens and try in other ways to make part ot their income independent of the wheat crop These pictures were all taken in the early part of April when agricultural activities were at a low ebb There was Spring plowing and cultivating to be done on the land that was not planted to wheat planting of small grains harvesting of sorghums that had been left out over the Winter and the usual amount of wind erosion control work At this particular time the wheat was coming up well and there had been sufficient rain Prospects for making a crop were good but in this country good prospects don't mean much This picture shows one of the two irrigation wells in operation This one can flood thirty or forty acres of land Wells like these are very expensive and while they practically guarantee a crop of sorghums on the land they serve they cannot be used on the wheat land itself No well could possibly irrigate a tenth of the wheat land that a farmer would need to make a living General notes 522290 Local identifier 83-G-44121 Department of Agriculture Bureau of Agricultural Economics Division of Economic Information ca 1922 - ca 1953 NARA-Author Rusinow Irving Photographer 5307166 <br /> Still Picture Records Section Special Media Archives Services Division NWCS-S National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park MD 20740-6001 1941-04 Record group Record Group 83 Records of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics 1876 - 1959 Record group ARC 412 Photographic Prints Documenting Programs and Activities of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics and Predecessor Agencies compiled ca 1922 - ca 1947 documenting the period ca 1911 - ca 1947 Series ARC 521048 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NWDNS-83-G-44121 yes Other versions <gallery> File Haskell_County _Kansas _Virtually_every_farm_in_the_county_is_primarily_dependent_upon_wheat _althou_ _ _ _-_NARA_-_522290 tif tif File Haskell_County _Kansas _Virtually_every_farm_in_the_county_is_primarily_dependent_upon_wheat _althou_ _ _ _-_NARA_-_522290 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Irving Rusinow Haskell County Kansas Agriculture in Kansas Tractors in the United States Farmall tractors Water pumps in the United States NARA TIF images with categorized JPGs |