amylsacks' photos with the keyword: farm

Progress is all about saturating our future food with chemicals. There's no way that could ever backfire on us, right?

The redhead looks maybe a little too pleased, as she reminds us that our (not "Frost Seald") bacon should be served "crisp" at Tuesday's breakfast. Just in case we weren't aware. (Shown slightly larger than original size.)

Thank you, Magical Blue Honking Bird. It's a wrap!

"...Many of the berries from this plantation are sent to the two nearby Ocean Spray canning plants where they are made into delicious jelly, sauce, cranberry juice cocktails, and a thousand other concoctions that were dreamed up to tickle the palates of those who really appreciate delicious tasting food. Others go directly to market as fresh berries under the Eatmor label... "Until I see you again, 'So long.'"

"...Like other projects that ever amounted to anything, the cranberry industry has provided many headaches to those interested in it. Scientific research, much of which has been conducted right here, has produced amazing advances and far better types of fruit. Say, some of the berries I saw were as big as marbles..."

"...People have come from all over the United States and from several foreign countries just to ride the Edaville [train]. Everyone of them was as pleasantly surprised as I to learn of the many other treats that were in store for them. In the autumn season they get a firsthand look-see at cranberry harvesting which, I understand, is one of the most colorful events in agriculture. Most harvest hands are natives of the Cape Verde Islands... Put thirty or forty of them in them in a bog which at that time of year has turned a pretty red, stack a few boxes of berries near them and you have a carnival of color that's hard to beat." Well, sort of. :/

So... the "waiting room" is a parking lot. Okay. "...The cranberry game does have its exciting moments, though, for it provides an element of suspense seldom found in other agricultural pursuits..." It does look exciting, doesn't it?

"Ever taste a cranberry frappe? What? You haven't? Well, let me tell you, you've really missed something in life. I know because I just smacked my lips over one and can truthfully testify that it's about the tastiest concoction that ever slid over my palate..."

Front of a postcard-sized, 20-page "letter-booklet" promoting a cranberry farm and "Home of the World's Smallest Railroad." Published by Richard Bennett Talcott of Boston, Massachusetts.

I see no wartime propaganda in this very detailed 50-pager, hence my guess at the date. (Though with that always-pleasant cursive it could be as late as the mid-50s.) From American Fruit Growers, Inc., Chicago, Illinois.

Sent from "Box 88, Moscow, USSR" on September 14th.

Microscope Dude sure looks excited to be at work, doesn't he?

Enjoy the pre-Wal-Mart landscape, Nostalgia Hounds!