Walking trained geese through a field   Save
Joe Munroe Archive
Description: Farmer walks through his cotton field with trained geese, which are used as natural pest and weed control on some farms. This is a low tech way of keep the field clean, but it works well. Photographed by Joe Munroe in Bakersfield, California, 1965. Munroe's career began in 1939 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He served in the Air Force during World War II and then joined Cincinnati-based Farm Quarterly magazine. Though raised in Detroit, agriculture became an important subject of Joe's photographs. He moved to California in 1955 and free-lanced, taking magazine assignments and selling his own work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P400_B09_F07_002
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Geese; Livestock; Farming; Farm life
Places: Bakersfield (California)