Des Moines Register

A bull belonging to Tipton-area farmer E.C. Mitchell is branded by Dr. P.A. Weires of West Union in 1931 to show that it is infected with bovine tuberculosis. Mitchell is shown in the jacket holding the rope. Register File Photo

Shown in 1937 on the bank of the main irrigation ditch on Fred Shaw's farm near Elliott are Elmer and Carl Carlson, Peter Hansen and C.F. Carlson. For more photos from the Register’s archives, subscribe here: http://bit.ly/2KZwECu Register File Photo

Squire Parker with Case steam tractor near Fertile, Iowa, in 1930. Courtesy Of State Historical Society

Farmers line up during a 1933 protest in downtown Des Moines. No other information was available about this photo. Register File Photo

A straw silo being built in Polk City in 1936. R

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