Trench silo for crop storage

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Title	Trench silo for crop storage
Creator(s)	Clement, William L., photographer
Publisher	United States. Soil Conservation Service
Date	1956-02-21
Coverage	1950-1959;
Photographer's notes	Trench silo constructed in the summer of 1955. Dimensions: six feet deep, fourteen feet wide at bottom, sixteen feet wide at top, and seventy-five feet long. Filled with corn and sorghum and covered with sheet of water-proof paper, ground limestone and sawdust.
Farm owner	Bryson, Ike
Contextual note	One in a series of photographs of agricultural activities in Cannon County, TN that were taken by W.L. Clement, District Conservationist for the U.S. Soil Conservation Service, and his assistants between the mid-1940s and mid-1970s.
People in Photograph	[Ike Bryson and son]
Collection Name	Photographs of W.L. Clement, U.S. Soil Conservation Service
ID Number	T-183-1
Subject-LCSH	Silos
Subject-TGM	Photographic prints;
Subject-Keyword	Trench silo;
Geographic Location	Cannon County (Tenn.)
Community Name	Woodbury;
Soil Conservation District or Watershed	TN-SCD-19; Stones River
Type	Image
Format	jpeg
Genre	Photograph
Extent	Approx. 4.5" x 4"
Source file	T1831_142f_trenchsilo
Copyright status	Publication of the United States government. Not copyrighted
Conditions for use	May be freely reproduced. Please credit the original photograph to: United States Soil Conservation Service. Credit the source of the digital item to: Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University.
Digital Publisher	Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
Contributing Institution	Arts Center of Cannon County

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