Describes how America changed its agricultural practices as a result of the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution.
The Agricultural Transition in New York State focuses on the transformation of the U.S. agricultural economy in the middle of the nineteenth century and its impact on farm families. The...
Land, livelihood, and lives are lost in an effort to keep up and break even. There is more to this story that affects both the food we eat and our provisions for the future.
Compiled for the 1987 centennial of the State Agricultural Experiment Stations, this volume critically examines past performance, current issues, and future directions for public agricultural research in the United States.
The U.S. sheep industry is complex, multifaceted, and rooted in history and tradition.
In this book Deborah Fitzgerald argues that farms became modernized in the 1920s because they adopted not only new machinery but also the financial, cultural, and ideological apparatus of industrialism.
Now you can tap the source of many of agriculture¿s most popular progressive farming tools. Ideas now commonplace in the industry, such as ¿crop and soil weatherproofing,¿ the ¿row support...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Maintaining the post-harvest quality of fruits and vegetables. In Fruit and vegetable processing (pp. 119–149). ... In M. W. Siddiqui (Ed.), Preharvest modulation of postharvest fruit and vegetable quality (pp. 1–40).
Broad in chronological and geographical scope and explicitly comparative, the book introduces readers to a wealth of information drawn from thoughout Mediterranean, east-central, and western Europe, as well as to the classic interpretations ...
Other leading industrial counties in this period were Vigo (Terre haute), St. Joseph (South Bend), Allen (Fort Wayne), and Madison (Anderson). The concentration of industry in certain regions was well shown in the 1920 census, ...