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A Farmer's Love Letter

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 17:47:56 +0000

A Famer's Love Letter

My darling sweet ________, do you ________ all for me? My heart ________ for you and my love is soft as a ________. I am for you as strong as an ________. You are a ________ with your ________ hair and ________ nose. You are the ________ of my eye, so if we ________ then ________ be married for I know we will make a happy ________.

For a postcard version, see below:

A Farmer's Love Letter

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 17:47:58 +0000

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A Farmer's Love Letter

Do you care at (carrot) all for me, for my heart beats (beets) for you and my love is as soft as a squash but as strong as an onion. For you are a peach with your reddish (radish) hair and turned-up (turnip) nose. You are the apple of my eye, so if we can't elope (cantaloupe) then let us (lettuce) marry anyhow, for I know we could make a happy pair (pear)."

For a fill-in-the-blanks version, see below:

Onion Harvest

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 18:42:28 +0000

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"How we do things at Ephrata, Pa."

Wisconsin photographer Alfred Stanley Johnson, Jr., reused these same onions in another tall-tale postcard that he entitled Onions (below).

Onions

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 18:42:26 +0000

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"How we do things at Jackson, Pa."

These same onions appear in another tall-tale postcard entitled Onion Harvest (below), which was also published by Wisconsin photographer Alfred Stanley Johnson, Jr.

Havesting a Profitable Crop of Onions in Iowa

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 20:10:58 +0000

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A harvest photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park.

Kansas photographer and postcard publisher William H. Martin (1865-1940) used pre-digital photomontage techniques to create amusing real photo postcards like this one that purported to show farmers with giant fruits, vegetable, and grains.

Other Martin postcards with harvest scenes include Bringing in the Sheaves, Harvesting Wheat in Missouri, and Pumpkins Grown in Kansas Soil Are Profitable (see below).

Corn and other crops also appear in other Martin cards, such as The Land of Big Corn, Good Corn Makes Good Hogs, Our County Fair Contest on Nebraska Corn, and Prosperity (see below),