Cliff Marcus

SCS (Soil Conservation Service) Collection

September 1958

This photo shows a feed crop, probably oats and peas, being field chopped for silage. The north edge of the standing grain field is apparent in immediate foreground and stretches south to the farmstead in center middle ground. The white house, barn and several outbuildings, including at least three upright silos, are clearly visible. The field is bounded at right by a wire fence on wooden posts paralleling a visible road. An open-bed truck is seen to be proceeding toward the camera in parallel with the fence. Directly adjacent to the truck, at left in the image, is a mobile silage chopper machine being pulled by a tractor proceeding closely apace with the truck. As the grain is cut and chopped it is blown up the visible arched pipe and can be seen being blown into the bed of the truck. The chopped material will be delivered to the silo and dumped into a stationary machine that will blow it up a pipe into the top of the silo. Behind the farmstead and the road at right, dense mixed forest is apparent in middle ground. The top of Bodenburg Butte is visible in near background at left while Pioneer Peak and associated Chugach mountains are obvious in far background. A dusting of snow is visible atop Pioneer Peak.

Near Palmer, Alaska

Black & White Paper Print, 4" x 5"

Farming#17nx-SCS