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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: March 20, 2013
Caption: Early Wheat Field
Additional Description: In the first report of the California Missions, Padre Francisco Palou wrote under date of Dec. 10, 1773, of San Antonio Mission: the mission has succeeded at the new location in securing an abundance of water from the arroyo mentioned, which they have conducted by means of a ditch to irrigate a level piece of land adjoining the mission proper of which a good piece has been cultivated, and they are about to sow on it two fanegas of wheat.
Submitted: April 15, 2013, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p238911
File Size: 3.337 Megabytes

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