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Feb 20, 2020
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A pioneer farm family poses in 1889 near Black River Falls in Jackson County, Wisconsin. -- From the Charles Van Schaick collection

e:	1889
Creator Name:	Van Schaick, Charles
City:	Black River Falls
County:	Jackson
State:	Wisconsin
Collection Name:	Van Schaick, Charles : Charles Van Schaick photographs and negatives, circa 1880-circa 1940
Genre:	Photograph

Wisconsin Historical Society, Image #25040

A family scythes a field, date unknown, near Black River Falls in Jackson County, Wisconsin. -- From the Charles Van Schaick collection

Wisconsin Historical Society, Image #53649

Men harvest grain with Cyrus McCormick's reaper of 1831. The 1887 illustration appeared in an advertising folder produced by the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Image #39559

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The first pioneer farmers arriving in Wisconsin almost immediately began growing wheat. By the 1850s wheat was already a major crop in Indiana and Illinois.

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Jerry Apps, born and raised on a central-Wisconsin farm, is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of more than 40 books – most on rural history and country life. Visit www.jerryapps.com for more information.