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Pictured are presumably John Davis and his wife and children as this photo is identified as his home. Notice that their ranch yard is fenced and just behind the large black dog is a white picket entry gate. To have the available labor and money to build this would indicate prosperity. The fence would help protect the trees they had planted and their vegetable garden from any grazing animals. A well is behind the farmhouse below the visible windmill that powered the water pump. On the left can be seen a man with a disk plow and a team of mules. The two mules in front are tandem (one behind the other) hitched, followed by two sets of mules double hitched just in front of the plow where the most traction and power would be needed. John Davis was a dry land farmer who raised barley and wheat on a large acreage in the part of Stanislaus County that is now Denair, California. He laid out the original townsite on his barley fields and named it Elmwood.
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