West Virginia Agriculture Heritage Contest Every family has stories and photos depicting farm life from earlier generations. These stories and photos are sentimental and interesting to our family but they are also historical "treasures"
My granddad, Virgil Dransfield stacking small grain shocks in the field. Photograph was from the mid 1950’s. The smaller bundles were bound by a binder and these small individual packages could easily be handled by one man for further processing.