Iowa Farm in Your Pocket: A Beginner's Guide (Bur Oak Guide) [1 ed.] 1587298767, 9781587298769

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in your pocket A Beginner’s Guide K i r K M u r ray

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PHOTOS ON REVERSE SIDE: 1–2 dairy cows; 3 billy goat; 4 sheep; 5 pig; 6 goose; 7 chickens; 8 rooster; 9 horse; 10 piglets; 11 dairy calves and chickens; 12 octagonal barn with silo in back; 13 grain bins with dryer at left, fan at right; 14 interior of corncrib; 15 granary with sprouting corn in field; 16 silo with silage for cattle feed, livestock shed at right; 17 dairy operation; 18 grain trailer ready to load; 19 windmill; 20 wind turbine; 21 draft horses; 22 older granary, built 1920 to 1940, in front of newer grain bin; 23 hay bales in barnyard; 24 mature oats in foreground; 25 cornfield after harvest; 26 buggy and grain shocks; 27 round fodder bales; 28 granary behind barn

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PHOTOS ON THIS SIDE: 29 tractor pulling springtooth harrow and rotary hoe in springtime; 30 sprouting corn in no-till field; 31 soybeans; 32 planting and fertilizing corn with steel-wheeled tractor; 33 goat kids; 34 flats of seedlings ready to plant; 35 spraying; 36 fertilizing; 37 cabbage and broccoli ready to harvest; 38 young soybeans; 39 spraying; 40–41 raking hay into windrows; 42 beef cattle in front of round bales; 43 hayloft; 44 small square baler with twine bin at right; 45 large round baler; 46 grain shocks; 47 corn auger; 48 guinea fowl; 49 mature corn; 50 ear of corn; 51 ventilator on top of barn; 52–53 auguring corn from combine into grain cart; 54 close-up of corn running into grain cart; 55 window into grain hopper showing level of corn; 56 corn in grain hopper; 57 loading corn into grain bin at night; 58 gravity-flow grain feeder for hogs; 59 disking field in fall; 60 bird’seye view of grain bins with augers; 61 traditional corncrib; 62 silos with harvest moon; 63 beef cattle; 64 reel section on grain head

iowa Farm in Your Pocket Family farms—more than 77,000 of them at last count—are still a vital part of Iowa’s identity. But what are the names of all the animals and crops and buildings and machines that dominate the Iowa countryside? As an introduction to the practical magic of Iowa farmscapes, Iowa Farm in Your Pocket won’t tell you everything you should know to be a true Iowan, but it will tell you enough that you can survive a day at the fair without embarrassing yourself. Photojournalist Kirk Murray’s endearing photographs make this guide the perfect companion for drives in the country in all seasons. They celebrate the rich activities and varied beauties of each season on the farm, from the starkness of winter white to the rich green of spring and summer to the rust-red and gold of fall. Murray’s photos of tilling, planting, and harvesting are bright and energizing; his scenes of barnyards and fields and farmsteads are colorful and luminous; and his photos of farm animals are just plain fun. With its full-color photographs of the most common animals, activities, crops, and buildings that you can expect to see whenever you pass a family farmstead, Iowa Farm in Your Pocket will be a treat for all newcomers to a state where corn and beans and hogs rule, for both urban and rural children and their parents, and for all those who want to revisit memories of growing up on a farm. $9.95

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