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Man with wheelbarrow and white leghorns, Otto Gearhart Poultry Ranch, Novato, Marin County, March 1924 [photograph]

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Title: Man with wheelbarrow and white leghorns, Otto Gearhart Poultry Ranch, Novato, Marin County, March 1924 [photograph]
Creator: Boissevain, Marett Burridge (M.B.) (photographer)
Date Created and/or Issued: March 1924
Publication Information: Marin County Free Library. Anne T. Kent California Room
Contributing Institution: Marin County Free Library
Collection: M.B. Boissevain, Marin's First Farm Advisor
Rights Information: copyrighted
©JackMasonMuseum
Description: "Most of Marin's commerical poultry was part of the Accredited Hatcheries Project sponsored by the Sonoma County Farm Bureau and the Agricultural Extension Service for improving the quality of chicks." Editor, M.B. Boissevain: Marin's First Farm Advisor; Historical Photographs of Marin's Agrarian Roots: 1920-1950 "James Gage, who conducts the white leghorn breeding farms at Novato in conjunction with the Indian Valley Hatchery at Novato, has a pen of birds in the Sonoma County Farm Bureau International Egg Laying Contest. Gage's pen of ten chickens laid 403 eggs for the two-month period." M. B.Boissevain
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph, b&w
Identifier: csrcl_1375
mb36
http://contentdm.marinlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/MBB/id/11
Language: English
Subject: Agriculture--California--Marin County
Agricultural exhibitions--California
Farming
Poultry
Poultry industry
Boissevain, M.B
Gearhart, Otto
Place: Marin County (Calif.)
Novato (Calif.)
Relation: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt0q2nc5z2
http://www.marinlibrary.org/californiaroom/

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