Members of the Benson Cow Testing Association are shown in 1909 in this photograph. The group is composed of twenty-four men. In the back row, third from the right is R.K. Bliss, who received a B.A. in animal husbandry from Iowa State College…
Handler posing a gray Percheron stallion (most likely Elmer Koons with Jalap, the chief herd sire for Iowa State College [University] in the 1920's) in the front of the Old Cattle Barn.
The Cattle Barn following a fire that destroyed the entire roof of the east wing of the barn in October of 1958. In the photograph several men can be seen working in what is left of the hay loft. Much unburned hay is strewn about the pen next to the…