HARVESTING SUGAR BEETS IN 1944 Part 3

Description

Tractor drawn lifters pull sugar beets. The beets are piled in windows, topped into piles on cut strips of land, hand and machine loaded into trucks, and piled onto dumps at a railway siding near Ault, Colorado. Sheep graze on beet tops. Men pile up dried beet tops. A John Deere harvester tops, digs, and windrows beets. Shows close-ups of the operation of an International Harvester harvester. Includes scenes of tumbleweeds rolling across open fields (very dry) near Fort Collins, Colorado.

Collection

Records of the Agricultural Research Service

Series

Motion Picture Films