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Farmer's Elevator
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A farmer's elevator in Cooksville, Illinois, has siding on all sides. A fence leads to the elevator, which has a shingled roof.
Cattle Crossing Broken Fence
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This drawing shows how cattle and other livestock would wander beyond farms if proper fencing was not installed.
Ethanol advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This advertisement promoting ethanol sits on the fence outside Leo Miller's farm in McLean County.
Karr Homestead, Bloomington, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Karr homestead near Bloomington, photographed about 1885, shows an example of what pioneer field and fences were like.
Grain elevator
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A farmer's elevator in Cooksville, Illinois has wooden siding on all sides. A fence leads to this elevator, which has a shingled roof.
Traditional Cornfield Planting
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This is an example of traditional cornfield planting, with multiple plants per hill and space between hills of corn.
Mature corn near Shirley
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This mature cornfield is on the Funk Trust Farm near Shirley, Illinois, in September 1995.
Karr Homestead, Bloomington, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Karr homestead near Bloomington, photographed about 1885, shows an example of what pioneer field and fences were like.
Dennis Kenyon Farmstead in 1874
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This sketch of the Dennis Kenyon farm appeared in the 1874 Atlas of McLean County.
Concrete Fence Post
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This wooden fence was constructed using longer-lasting concrete fence posts.

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Farmer's Elevator

Cattle Crossing Broken Fence

Ethanol advertisement

Karr Homestead, Bloomington, Illinois

Grain elevator

Traditional Cornfield Planting

Mature corn near Shirley

Karr Homestead, Bloomington, Illinois

Dennis Kenyon Farmstead in 1874

Concrete Fence Post

Farmer's Elevator

Cattle Crossing Broken Fence

Ethanol advertisement

Karr Homestead, Bloomington, Illinois

Grain elevator

Traditional Cornfield Planting

Mature corn near Shirley

Karr Homestead, Bloomington, Illinois

Dennis Kenyon Farmstead in 1874

Concrete Fence Post