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Fescue to the Rescue: Chewings Fescue, Paspalum, and the Application of Non-British Experience to Pastoral Practice in New Zealand, 1880–1920
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (3): 312–335.
Published: 01 July 2006
... experimented with different grass species to suit newly experienced environmental conditions. Both Chewings fescue (Festuca rubra var. commutata) and paspalum (Paspalum dilatatum) were experimented with and adopted for pasture up to the 1920s. While the discovery of ecological limits partly determined...
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Children of the Western Plains: The Nineteenth-Century Experience
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (1): 127–128.
Published: 01 January 2006
...Lisa Ossian Children of the Western Plains: The Nineteenth-Century Experience . Marilyn Irvin Holt . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 Book Reviews / 127 Mingling, matching, and cross-referencing the contents of these transcribed conversations prove the heroic role...
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The African-American Experience in the Civilian Conservation Corps
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (4): 824–826.
Published: 01 October 2000
... achieved their goal of provid? ing an "understanding of current technology and a glimpse of its future" (p. ix). D. Clayton Brown Texas Christian University The African-American Experience in the Civilian Conservation Corps. By Olen Cole Jr. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1999. 128 pp., $49.95...
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Urban Farming in the West: A New Deal Experiment in Subsistence Homesteads
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (3): 433–434.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Linda L. Ivey Urban Farming in the West: A New Deal Experiment in Subsistence Homesteads . By Robert M. Carriker . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2010 . 238 pp., $50.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8165-2820-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 2011 Book...
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“Quite an Experiment”: A Mining Company’s Attempt to Promote Agriculture on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, 1895–1915
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (1): 64–98.
Published: 01 January 2006
... and 8,1898 Redfern to B. E. Furnow, Mar. 16,1899, Folder 4, Box 63, RG 68-102, CCI-Iron Cliffs Papers J. A.
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, "The Lake States Forest Experi¬ ment Station and the Mining Industry," Proceedings of the Lake Superior Mining Institute23 ( Aug. 1923 ): 161 A. E.
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"So Long as I Can Read": Farm Women’s Reading Experiences in Depression-Era South Dakota
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (4): 503–527.
Published: 01 October 2009
... Read": FarmWomen's Reading Experiences in Depression-Era South Dakota LISA R. LINDELL DuringtheGreatDepressionw, ithconditiongsrime,ntertainmesncatrce, and educationaolpportunitileismitedm, anySouthDakotafarmwomen reliedonreadingtofillemotionaslo, cial,andinformationnaeledsT. oread toanydegreet...
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The Harvest of Knowledge: Scientific Publications of the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1888–1945
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (1): 126–127.
Published: 01 January 2002
... parallels with the situation on the other side of the border. Bill Waiser University of Saskatchewan The Harvest of Knowledge: Scientific Publications ofthe Kansas Agricul? tural Experiment Station, 1888-1945. By Kansas State University. Man? hattan: Kansas State University, 2000, 4-disc CD-ROM set, $36.50...
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Facing Empire: Indigenous Experiences in a Revolutionary Age
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (1): 187–189.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Christopher S. Kindell Facing Empire: Indigenous Experiences in a Revolutionary Age . Edited by Kate Fullagar and Michael A. McDonnell . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2018 . 256 pp., $39.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-4214-2656-0. © 2021 Agricultural History Society...
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Jewish Agricultural Experiment, Wellington, Nevada, 1896–1902: Epilogue to a Communal Failure
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 244–259.
Published: 01 April 2002
... Miller, University of Nevada Oral History Project, 1977, 34. 34 his ninety-first birthday. "Family History," 20 Jewish Nevada, Epilogue Agricultural 1896-1902: to a Communal Experiment, Failure Wellington, JOHN P. MARSCHALL Two major population shifts toward the end of the nineteenth century...
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The Indentured Archipelago: Experiences of Indian Labour in Mauritius and Fiji, 1871–1916
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (2): 347–348.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Richard B. Allen [email protected] The Indentured Archipelago: Experiences of Indian Labour in Mauritius and Fiji, 1871–1916 . By Reshaad Durgahee . New Delhi : Cambridge University Press , 2021 . 275 pp., $99.99 , hardback, ISBN 9781316512265. Copyright © 2023...
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Bring Us in Good Ale: England's Century-Long Hop Breeding Experiment
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (1): 121–145.
Published: 01 February 2023
... of the hordes who traveled by train or wagon to the countryside in late summer. But most reports well into the twentieth century contained fond reminiscences of the experience despite the actual monotonous work of hand-picking hop cones in the hot sunny fields. 14 While the harvest atmosphere improved...
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Lives and Letters of an Immigrant Family: The Van Dreveldts’ Experiences along the Missouri, 1844-1866
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (1): 108–109.
Published: 01 January 2000
... the continuing integration of law into southern political and economic history. James L. Hunt Mercer University Lives and Letters ofan Immigrant Family: The Van Dreveldts' Experiences along the Missouri, 1844-1866. By Kenneth Kronenberg. Lincoln: Univer? sity of Nebraska Press, 1998. 224 pp., $45.00, ISBN 0-8032...
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Lancetilla Experiment Station, Tela, Honduras, July 10, 1926. A label on th...
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in Beyond Bananas: The United Fruit Company and Agricultural “Diversification”
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Published: 01 August 2023
figure 2. Lancetilla Experiment Station, Tela, Honduras, July 10, 1926. A label on the reverse side of this panorama photograph described the scene: “General view from top of hill to South of main area. On the left is experimental vegetable garden; areas of tung oil seedlings and rubber
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in Diversifying Description: Sweet Potato Science and International Agricultural Research after the Green Revolution
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Published: 01 August 2023
figure 5. The memory-banking procedures elaborated by Virginia Nazarea used a wide range of methods to capture an equally wide range of knowledge and experience. From Nazarea, Cultural Memory and Biodiversity , 18. Republished by permission of the University of Arizona Press.
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Telling Stories: Keeping Secrets
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (4): 437–445.
Published: 01 October 2009
...JOAN M. JENSEN Abstract This article addresses the reticence of some farm women to share their experiences with historians and how that desire to keep secrets collides with the desire by scholars to tell the stories of these women. It argues that scholars must continue to struggle with the issue...
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The South Carolina Home in Black and White: Race, Gender, and Power in Home Demonstration Work
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (3): 477–501.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Carmen V. Harris Abstract This essay examines the intersectional experience of African American home demonstration agents in South Carolina between 1910 and 1968. It investigates how gender created common experiences and how white supremacy complicated those commonalities. Both black and white...
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Struggle and Survival in Sallisaw: Revisiting John Steinbeck's Oklahoma
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (3): 33–56.
Published: 01 July 2012
...Ryan Hall Abstract In the decades since its 1939 publication, John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath has shaped the ways in which readers have understood the experience of rural Americans during the Great Depression. Steinbeck used frontier mythology to tap into American nostalgia for yeoman...
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The Role of Blacks in Establishing Cattle Ranching in Louisiana in the Eighteenth Century
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (2): 41–67.
Published: 01 April 2012
... ranchers brought relevant experience from the Caribbean or France, that some of the blacks might have brought such experience from Africa, and that people of African, European, native, and mixed origins all contributed knowledge and creativity, as well as labor, in founding a distinctive herding ecology...
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Persistence, Change, and Thinking Big about Small Places: Some Thoughts about the Practical Applications of Rural and Agricultural History
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (1): 3–17.
Published: 01 January 2014
... these communities in the wake of the farm crisis in the early 1990s. For a multitude of reasons, the long-term experiences of the communities often bore very little relation to the predictions made in the 1940s. This article discusses a planned project to re-examine one of these small places, Irwin, Iowa, in order...
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"Knotted Together like Roots in the Darkness": Rural Midwestern Women and Region—A Bibliographic Guide
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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (3): 453–481.
Published: 01 July 2003
... challenges. Like Aldrich, historians contest the region’s stultifying and monolithic image to bring to light the wide variety of meaningful and important gendered and cross-cultural experiences. Although the region is often difficult to interpret in all of its complexity, contradictions, and variations...
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