Welcome to: Transitions in Agriculture Benton SWCD s 55 th Annual Meeting
Postcard of Corvallis from Cemetery Hill, drawn by J.T. Picket. circa 1885 Benton County Historical Museum, 1979-256.0003
The Horning Carding Mill on Oak Creek. after 1869 Benton County Historical Museum, Harriet Moore Collection, 1985-061.0046
Benton County Flouring Mills, Corvallis, erected in 1890; much of the flour produced went to foreign markets. After 1890 Benton County Historical Museum, Harriet Moore Collection, 1994-038
Benton County Historical Museum 1897 The Corvallis Creamery is established. Dairying has become of greater importance regionally.
1900 With the turn of the century the flouring mills domination of Corvallis industrial output gives way to timber industry. Benton County Historical Museum, Corvallis Public Library Collection, 1985-032.0026BM
circa 1900 Threshing crew at harvest time near Philomath. Benton County Historical Museum, Justina Newton Thomas Collection, 1996-064.0055
A panorama of Philomath. circa 1900 Benton County Historical Museum
TOP: harvest crew with steampowered thrashing machine, Bellfountain. 1906 BOTTOM: harvest crew with chuck wagon. Photo Submitted by Alvah Hinton, GT 16
Melon harvest worthy of a postcard. circa 1907 Benton County Historical Museum, Andrew and Wilma Ayers Collection 1980-30.0009
circa 1910 Purebred sheep on Peter Witeaker farm. George M. Weister, photographer Benton County Historical Museum, Corvallis Commercial Club Collection, 1985-032.0025
Peacock s house and farm with two story water tower and windmill, rhubarb field in foreground. circa 1910 Benton County Historical Museum, Harriet Moore Collection, 1994-038.0582
Oregon Apple Company Apple Pickers, all donning hats. circa 1911 Benton County Historical Museum, Frank Groves Collection, 1980-088.0065
Benton County Produce Display at the Oregon State Fair, it was to win first prize this year, too. 1912 Benton County Historical Museum, Frank Groves Collection, 1980-088.0065
1913 Jess A. Hanson begins a poultry breeding business and will become the world's pre-eminent breeder of White Leghorn chickens for egg production. Benton County Historical Museum, 1981-002.00
Agriculture class at Corvallis High School 1915 Benton County Historical Museum, Harriet Moore Collection, 1982-004
Benton County Historical Museum, The Caryl Croisant and Greta Gilmour Collection, 1985-165.0013 Town of Alsea. before1915
The "wheat slump of 1920" closes the Fischer Brothers Milling Company. 1920 Peter Marbach, photographer 1924 Fischer Brothers Milling Company reopens with an emphasis on feed and seed rather than flour.
Sam H. Moore opens the Benton County Hatchery on the corner of Eleventh and Taylor streets, at that time the largest electric hatchery on the west coast. 1922 Benton County Historical Museum, Harriet Moore Collection
Label for Fancy Apricots canned in Corvallis. Benton County Historical Museum, James Baggett Collection, 2006-016.0029 circa 1925 Inside the Western Oregon Packing Corporation s Cannery. (Photograph by Ball Studio) Benton County Historical Museum, Harriet Moore Collection, 1982-004
Agricultural laborers at the Seavy Hop Yard. 1930 Benton County Historical Museum
Stovall family and garden corn crop in King s Valley. circa1930 Photo submitted by George Stovall (right), GT 29.
Agricultural machinery for spraying & dusting hops, at Horst Hops Yard. 1933 Benton County Historical Museum, Oregon State University Botany Department Collection, 1982-015.0005P
View of turkey farm near Corvallis. 1935 O.S.C. Extension Service, Extension and Experiment Station Communications, P120:1050
Hop harvests in Benton County; Oregon led hop production in the U.S. for decades. circa1935 Benton County Historical Museum, Harland Pratt Collection, 1981-056.001P
Willamette River at Corvallis looking east-southeast. 1939 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
circa 940 Agricultural laborers with modern hop harvesting machinery. Benton County Historical Museum, Benton County Historical Society Collection, 1982-059.0238CS
A crew of neighborhood women are wigwaming fiber flax at the Benton County Flax Growers Cooperative near Monroe. 1944 O.S.C. Extension Service, Extension and Experiment Station Communications, P120:2391
Boy working on the J.W. Miller farm south of Corvallis through OSC under the farm labor livein program. 1944 O.S.C. Extension Service, Harriet s Collection, HC0972
Irrigated clover pasture on farm, owned by Mr. Murphy, south of Corvallis. 1951 R. G. Fowler, Jr., photographer O.S.C. Extension Service, Extension and Experiment Station Communications, P120:3257
Robert W. Every operating sprayer on sheep for ticks on a south Benton County farm; nozzle held close to get skin deep penetration with the DDT solution. 1948 R. G. Fowler, Jr., photographer O.S.C. Extension Service, Extension and Experiment Station Communications, P120:3257
Second cutting of alfalfa; plants on the left without Borax added to the soil, plants on the right show what growth has occurred with borax. circa 1954 O.S.C. Extension Service, Harriet s Collection, HC993
Installation of tile drains on Cheadle farm. 1958 Western Ways Photo
BEFORE: Henry Clay farm in Kings Valley. 1959 AFTER: Same view after shaping, fertilizing and seeding to perennial grasses.
1962 First mention of Christmas trees; H. L. Schudel farm on Beaver Creek.
Children s Farm Home with milking machine in dairy barn. 1964 Benton County Historical Museum, Alice Rampton Collection, 2006-033.0011
Young walnut orchard on Kiger Island, owned by Earl and Roy Hathaway, is double cropped to alfalfa; an early example of agroforestry. 1965
Grass-seed stubble is burned in Willamette Valley. September 1972 Gene Daniels, photographer
Burnt grass-seed stubble in Willamette Valley. September 1972 Gene Daniels, photographer
1974 U-Pick-It strawberry farm. Benton County Historical Museum, Robert Henderson Estate Collection, 2009-086.0181
Alpine Vineyards opens, signaling the beginning 1976 of the wine industry in Benton County.
1985 Farm Bill aims to reduce soil erosion on highly erodible cropland and discourage conversion of wetlands into nonwetland areas.
1998-99 Nose pumps for cattle installed to allow access to water while keeping livestock out of streams.
Owen s Farm under conservation easement by Greenbelt Land Trust. Teresa Matteson, photographer 2004
2011 Trial use of swine for rotational grazing at Fern Road Farm, with Alex Westerberg and Teresa Matteson. Jason Bradford, photographer
September 2010 Spring Hills Organic Sweet Pepper plants. Teresa Matteson, photographer
August 2009 Organic cherry and grape tomatoes at the Corvallis Farmers Market. Teresa Matteson, photographer
Thank you to Caday Farm for the donation of beautiful and delicious squash. Teresa Matteson, photographer October 2011
Sources: Pokarney, Bruce (2002) Oregon Harvest. Woodburn, OR: Beautiful America Publishing Company. Corvallis Gazette-Times & Benton County Historical Society and Museum (2000) A Pictorial History of Benton County. Corvallis, OR: Corvallis Gazette-Times. http://oregondigital.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?cisoroot=/archives&cisoptr=3249&cis OBOX=1&REC=13 http://oregondigital.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?cisoroot=/archives&cisoptr=484&cis OBOX=1&REC=12 http://oregondigital.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?cisoroot=/archives&cisoptr=2148&cis OBOX=1&REC=4 http://oregondigital.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?cisoroot=/archives&cisoptr=50&ciso BOX=1&REC=14 http://oregondigital.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?cisoroot=/archives&cisoptr=2124&cis OBOX=1&REC=1 http://oregondigital.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?cisoroot=/archives&cisoptr=712&ciso BOX=1&REC=10
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