This pumping plant for irrigation is powered by a natural gas engine which operates on cost of about 1/2 the cost of electricity, Tulare County, California. Butane (natural gas in tanks) as a source of power on small farms is being developed by the Farm Security Administration Rural Rehabilitation Program in Tulare, Kern, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties, California. Photo by Dorothea Lange, November 1938. [0003-0701-0615-1012] by 0003
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Keywords
agriculture, butane, dorothea lange, farm machinery, farm security administration, farming machinery, fsa, irrigation, lange dorothea, natural gas engine, office of war information, owi, pumping plant
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