Dickie Nash, 14, left, from Cromwell, Oklahoma, picking beans on the John Grenz place near Jefferson in Linn county. John Grenz Jr. is with him. Dickie batches an lives in a tent on the place. Picked 204 lbs in one day.
County agent H. G. Avery; D. E. Stephens, superintendent of the Moro Branch Experiment Station, and Jack Gorham, North Powder farmer, exmining mixture in a field of Federation wheat near the North Powder community.
Japanese American workers planting onions in Malheur County. Japanese American work crews were often made up of several related families, including parents and in-laws.
About 450 Japanese Americans from relocation centers were used for farm labor in Malheur County. While most worked mostly for Japanese farmers, these workers are working in the Dale Garrison beet field.
John McKnight Bloss is sitting at the left in the photo. Next to him is Martha Faye Bloss, Will Bloss, Mary Woods Bloss, Nannie Bloss and her son, John. The photo was taken at the Bloss Farm the summer that Will H. and Martha Faye Best were married.