Dave Wilson, shown on his farm

Creator

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Identifier

20028121

Description

This is the story of a farm family that struggled along for years without getting anywhere and then, with the establishment of a workable farm plan and help from the Government, is worth five times what it was years ago. Dave Wilson is a farmer. He farms the old Water Watson place near Walnut Creek on the edge of the black land prairie that rolls eastward from Mansfield. He moved to near Britton and started farming when he was young man, like his father before him. He settled on one farm and stayed there 19 years, rearing his family of three daughters and a son and trying to outguess the droughts, the boll weevils, the market and waging never-ending war on the weeds and the pests and all of the other things that make a farmer's existence precarious. In this picture, Dave is shown on his farm, is standing holding a bucket in his right hand, as his pigs eat in front of him. Published in Fort Worth Star-Telegram, morning edition, September 12, 1943.

Archival Date

1943-09-01

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-282

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White

File Format

JPG

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Subjects

Wilson, Dave; Farms; Farmers; Pails; Bucket; Swine; Pigs; Livestock; War