W.T. Ford, driver for Rigsby's Feed & Seed Company ready to distribute four hundred pounds per acre of 6-12-12 fertilizer and thirty pounds fescue per acre. Field will be used for recreation and is a TAP project in cooperation with Lion's Club, County and DeKalb telephone company. Seed and fertilizer donated by Rigsby's Feed & Seed and Farmer's Co-op. Seedbed preparation by county owned equipment.
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
W.T. Ford
Collection Name
Photographs of W.L. Clement, U.S. Soil Conservation Service
ID Number
T-3804-11
Subject-LCSH
Fertilizer equipment;
Subject-TGM
Trucks;
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" x 4.5"
Source file
T380411_426f_manontruck
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
