Black and white 4" x 5.5" photograph of harvest wagon drawn by two horses on the Umland farm, amid stalks of corn. Photograph dated 1933. Typed caption signed "ru" by Rudolph Umland describes the harvest and the economic difficulties of early 1930s on the farm: "Ever since I was fifteen and old enough to hurl corn-ears into a wagon I had heard of farmers husking over a hundred bushels of corn a day. That immediately became one of the ambitions in my life. It wasn't until 1932 that I saw my brother Herbert husk that many corn-ears. The next year I succeeded in doing it too. But one of our neighbors, Sherman Henriksen, who lived across the line in Lancaster County, did better than that. He won the state cornhusking contest that year (1933) by husking 28.36 bushels in 80 minutes. Later, on November 9th, in a field near West Point, Nebraska, he won the national championship by husking 27.62 bushels in the same length of time. My brothers Herbert and Henry, Harry Rochenbach and I drove to West Point to see him do that. He became a hero to all of us living around Eagle. Herbert and I raised over 4200 bushels of corn on our father's farm in 1933, some of our fields producing 80 bushels an acre. The price of corn fell so low that we decided to keep most of it and feed it to hogs the following year. We raised 300 hogs in 1934 but had drought and the market became glutted with hogs. Young pigs sold at livestock auctions for as little as forty cents a dozen. The hogs we raised ate up the previous year's corn and brought us no profit."
