1933 Print Field Corn Beet Agriculture Farm Field Crops Clover Labor Acreage FZ2 GR3 (1893-1988) Peter Helck was a

(1893-1988) Peter Helck was a renowned magazine illustrator

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by Cellucotton Products Company

he illustrated a number of books

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1933 Print Field Corn Beet Agriculture Farm Field Crops Clover Labor Acreage FZ2 GR3 (1893-1988) Peter Helck was aThis is an original 1933 halftone print of a farmer's field. The caption writes, "Such cloven fields bear witness to the peculiar problems of beet raising. Left: corn, planted because beets can unsex the most teeming earth. So crops must be rotated for curly top blights the leaves and vampirish little nematodes nurse at the sweet roots of beets when they are grown for too long in the same soil" Photography by Arthur Gerlach. Gerlach worked with