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...Pamela Riney-Kehrberg The Midwest Farmer's Daughter: In Search of an American Icon . By Zachary Michael Jack . West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press , 2012 . 260 pp., $21.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-55753-619-8 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013...

.... In 1996 a generous donation from Rosen's daughter funded the construction of a building located on Maple Street, and the center was renamed the Rosen Alternative Pest Control Center. © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 NOTES 1. Pete Daniel's Toxic Drift examines the USDA's role...

... and the number and yield of cows increased, farm wives, daughters, maidservants, and hired milkmaids continued to perform this work. By the end of World War I, however, so many young women had left the countryside that farmers had difficulty hiring enough milkmaids. When milking machinery became available...

.... This family memoir uses the letters written between Olava Williamson and her children to gain a first-hand account of dairy farming in early twentiethcentury Wisconsin. although not without problems, this is a charming book because the letters, mostly between the daughters and their mother, are detailed...

...-976-2. This family memoir uses the letters written between Olava Williamson and her children to gain a first-hand account of dairy farming in early twentiethcentury Wisconsin. although not without problems, this is a charming book because the letters, mostly between the daughters and their mother...

... that have concentrated on the roles of wives and mothers. There has been a tendency to view these women as worn down by the trials of repeated child-bearing and rearing combined with heavy work in both the home and fields. Hunter's work suggests that many single women, both farmers' daughters and farmers...

... nature of some rural families, highlighted by Deborah Fink in Agrarian Women. Mothers especially urged daughters to take steps that would allow them to broaden their opportunities. Carrie Young's North Dakota farm mother, Carrine Berg, committed herself to securing education for her children that would...

... ( Dec. 1989 ): 365 – 86 . Matilda Fletcher , Farmers' Wives and Daughters ( Lincoln : Journal Company State Printers , 1873 ), 12 ; Colby , “Farmers' Wives,” 247 , 248 . 11. Colby , “Farmers' Wives,” 248 , 249 . 12. Fletcher , Farmers' Wives and Daughters , 4...

... and the cultivation of strong social links could make the difference between prosperity and destitution in farming communities" (xviii). Importantly, when a farmer needed help-be it on the farm or in the house-it was a neighbor's single daughter who supplied it. Chapter three concentrates on the farm household...

... were listened to and that they provided for their children s future. in 1922 The FARMER S WIFE, A magazine targeted at rural Americans, asked readers: do you want your daughter to marry a farmer? This question was posed in such pointedly gendered terms because agribusiness experts and the mass media...

... in Union during the week. Only families that could spare their children s labor and afford to support them in town were able to send them to secondary school. Sons and daughters of ordinary farm and village families went to the local schools and then took whatever jobs they could find. Those whose parents...

... agency for children. Their daughter Diane was born in 1958 and son David in 1959. In 1960 Dorothy was hired to teach a government class at Dakota Wesleyan. The couple moved to Ames in 1962, when Elmer decided to study for his doctorate. By 1966, Dorothy was back in academia, teaching and doing graduate...

... small feet and Chinese mothers pressing needs to find suitable grooms for their daughters. Through the examination of relations between women s work and the demise of footbinding in early twentieth-century China, Laurel Bossen and Hill Gates challenge the mainstream narrative in this richly empirical...

...: ohio university press, 2014. 352 pp., $28.95, paperback, isBn 978-0-8214-4485-6. emma Bell miles (1879 1919) is best known for Spirit of the Mountain (1905), a personal memoir of short stories and cultural analysis. emma Bell, the daughter of teachers, was born in evansville, indiana, and spent her...

... Department at the University of Iowa, and then on to the University of Wisconsin Madison. By then they were the parents of three daughters, Susan, Margaret, and Ellen, born between 1953 and 1959. When the Bogues came to Madison, Margaret was forty, and had been out of the classroom for twelve years. She...

... of hard work.21 The Monteiths had three daughters at the time they purchased the farm. The only possible work available for girls living in the city was domestic work. The more urgent purpose for buying the farm, then, was to shield their daughters from working as domestic servants in white people s homes...

... to establish a daughter colony. In due course, the colony will split and half the people will move to the new place.7 Until the 1970s, this process of division often referred to as hiving took place every fifteen years. Today, because family size has decreased, it is often thirty years or more before a new...

... Diary, Jan. 20, Jan. 25 , 1896 . 61. George Gohn’s son, William, who inherited the farm, continued George’s diary; George Gohn Diary, 1889 – 1921 , Markham Museum, Markham, ON. As Fanny Jones was dying in 1880, her daughter, Lucia, made entries; Frances Jones Diary, 1878–80 , 93.x20 11449...

... Jewish farming communities with Nudelmans work? ing in both. The one at Genoa grew potatoes, wheat, and hay on already culti? vated land; the other at Wellington, which included Joseph's brother Phillip and daughter Sophie (Leavitt) and their families, scrambled to prepare land described as "sandy in one...

... the floodwaters to a relentlessly filial married daughter who paid costly visits to her struggling parents every year. after the breach, wrote Tian, counties along the Huai river in northern anhui all became like the natal family of the yellow river floodwaters. This incomparably filial daughter, regardless...