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Delicious country style meals are served.
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The corner shelves divide the living room and family room.
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Bruce and Melvin Holland are standing in one of the corn fields where the current crop is Silver King corn.
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Melvin Holland samples the Silver King corn.
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Diane Holland cleans the Silver King corn. She is planning a cream style corn recipe.
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The back of the courhouse shows the brick detailing inlaid medallions.
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The back of the courhouse shows the brick detailing inlaid medallions.
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The design of the major rooms is forthright and functional. The living room is directly connected to the dining room.
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The south side of the Empire Building faces Plaza Ferdinand.
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The entrance to the building on Palafox Place is typical of the Chicago School Design with its creative ornamentation above the door on the spandrels (horizontal divisions between windows) and on the cornice.
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The home is located on the corner of Romana and Florida Blanca Street in the Seville Historic District. The architectural style is described as coastal cottage.
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The grocery store dates from the early 20th century. It is now used as an office building.
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Corn is one of the crops grown in the Menonite community of Walnut Hill. There are several hundred acres of field corn planted for summer harvest on this farm.
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The farm is located on Highway 97.
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The house harmonizes with its surroundings because of low broad proportions and lack of ornamentation.
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The facade of the home faces west. There is an overstory of large water oaks. An adjoining garage apartment can be seen at the end of the driveway with the barn immediately to the rear.
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The style of architecture is often referred to as Craftsman. These dwellings display a fine degree of craftsmanship and are constructed of materials left as close as possible to their natural state.
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The walls are laid in quarried stone.
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The conical building is used for drying corn.
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The lean-to on the side of the barn is used as a chicken coop.
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The elevator is approximately 100 feet tall. There are six silos or individual storage bins attached to the main building.
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The opening under the main structure is the main access for loading and unloading truck loads of farm products.
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Trucks enter and stop at the office for a weigh-in to establish the amount of product before unloading.
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The soybeans are unloaded into "the pit", a 30' underground storage space. Commodities are purchased from the farmers, stored and sold to consumers in amounts up to 5 tons.
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The same area serves as a loading bay. A flow of corn is released from the storage silo. Customers range from hunters and farmers to sales of corn by the truckload, shipped overseas from the port in nearby Mobile.
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This small elevator services the main silo.
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The pipes feed into 18 different bins, storing individual items, such as, wheat oats, milo, soybeans and corn. Corn is the main item in storage at the elevator.
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The conveyor belt moves corn up to the top floor of the grain elevator. The belt must be cleaned by hand.
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The conveyor belt runs the length of the bins.
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An auger turns the dispensing chute.
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The bins are numbered and the feeding tube is positioned over the correct storage area.
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White corn dust covers surfaces in the elevator.
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A spectacular view of Walnut Hill can be seen from the top of the silos. Hundreds of acres of farmland stretch to the northern horizon.
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Fertilizer is stored, mixed and sold in a seperate building. The bags shown above are loaded by hand after customing the mixture of the elements, such as, amonium nitrate, potash, etc.
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The bobcat is used to load scoops of ingredients in the fertilizer mix.
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Clay Stuckey demonstrates one of the tasks in the fertilizer house. The fertilizer is dumped into this grate. A scale weighs the material and it is mixed in a hopper. The finished product is distributed by truckload or by 50 pound bag.
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Pre-packaged materials in 50 pound bags are stored in the building adjacent to the front office. The bags contain fertilizer and seed, as well as feed for any livestock.
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After unloading, the truck is weighed empty to establish the amount of the load. The amount of the sale depends on current market price. A ticket is added to the farmer's account.
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The rear door to the office is located to the right in the photograph.
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The scales are connected to an electronic weighing system in the office.
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Five employees run the elevator operations. Merle and Clay are in charge of outside tasks. There are two secretaries, Sue and Evon, as well as a general manager, Ed Nowlin. The elevator provides a central meeting place for some members of the farm community.
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Round hay bales dot the fields near Walnut Hill.
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The corn crop will be used for silage to feed dairy cattle.
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The Van Pelt Dairy Farm is located on Highway 97 in the Walnut Hill community.
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Hundreds of acres of feed corn are grown along Highway 97.
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In between corn fields there are pastures were the dairy cows graze.
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Corn fields front Highway 97 for several miles.
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The south end of the Van Pelt Dairy Farm is bordered by Gobbler Road. There are approximately three miles of corn fields along Gobbler Road which end to the east on Sandy Hollow Road.
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The farm is located on Highway 97 in the Walnut Hill community.
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The farm buildings are surrounded by extensive fields in spring cultivation.
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The small farmhouse exhibits traditional Craftsman architectural style.
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The house is framed with an overstory of pecan trees.
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The fields can be seen from the side porch.
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A small barn is located to the east of the main house.
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The east side of the barn faces Highway 97.