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Reaping wheat and shrives of wheat are stacked across a field, circa 1905

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Title: Reaping wheat and shrives of wheat are stacked across a field, circa 1905
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1905
Publication Information: California State University, Stanislaus. University Library. Special Collections
Contributing Institution: California State University, Stanislaus. Library
Collection: Stanislaus Region History and Culture Image Collection
Rights Information: Public domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: An unidentified man is reaping (cutting) wheat with a machine designed to be operated by just one or two men and a team of horses. Sheaves are visible in the foreground of the photograph. In this method of harvest the wheat stalks with the heads of wheat (seeds) still attached would be gathered and bound into a sheaf (bundle) and then set upright in the field. These would be left for a few days to allow remaining moisture to evaporate before the wheat was separated from the chaff. Some wheat continued to be grown near Turlock and other areas after the availability of irrigation water that enabled broad diversification of the agriculture in Stanislaus County.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print; 9 x 17 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt9h4nd4qw
cturs_046
Language: English
Subject: Agriculture--California--Central Valley (Valley)--History
Harvesting--California--Turlock
Place: Turlock (Calif.)
Stanislaus County (Calif.)

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