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Spread and eradication of the melon fly in Japan. “Melon Fly Eradication Pr...
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Figure 1. Spread and eradication of the melon fly in Japan. “Melon Fly Eradication Project in Okinawa, Japan,” pamphlet published by Okinawa Prefectural Plant Protection Center, Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Okinawa Prefectural Government, May 2015, P5.
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Trout Culture: How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (2): 276–277.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Thomas G. Andrews Trout Culture: How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West . By Jen Corinne Brown . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2015 . 248 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-295-99457-4. © 2016 the Agricultural History Society 2016 Agricultural...
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Aviation's Heartland: The Flying Farmers and Postwar Flight
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (2): 225–246.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Peter Simons Abstract In 1944 the National Flying Farmers organized at Stillwater, Oklahoma. The organization took advantage of aviation's wartime growth to promote flight as an integral part of agricultural life that would modernize production, break down social barriers, and give farmers greater...
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Okinawa Agriculture and the Sterile Insect Technique
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 541–571.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Figure 1. Spread and eradication of the melon fly in Japan. “Melon Fly Eradication Project in Okinawa, Japan,” pamphlet published by Okinawa Prefectural Plant Protection Center, Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Okinawa Prefectural Government, May 2015, P5. ...
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In The Blood: Understanding America's Farm Families
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (2): 275–276.
Published: 01 April 2016
... of american agriculture. r. douglas Hurt Purdue University Trout Culture: How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West. By Jen Corinne Brown. seattle: university of Washington Press, 2015. 248 pp., $35.00, hardback, isBn 978-0-295-99457-4. residents of the rocky Mountain West and visitors alike...
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Radiating South: Atomic Agriculture, US-Mexico Relations, and the Screwworm
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 607–641.
Published: 01 November 2024
.... The facility, a cluster of blank warehouses squatting on the banks of the Grijalba River, looked unremarkable from the outside. Inside whirred the world's largest fly factory. 1 Jointly run by the US and Mexican ministries of agriculture, and modeled on a plant in Mission, Texas, its function was to use...
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Echoing off the Heart of the Heartland: The Mid-States Companies, Echocardiography, and Rural Medicine
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (2): 127–146.
Published: 01 April 2005
... been that of the general practitioner who made house calls and needed nothing more than a stethoscope and kindly de- meanor to treat most patients. In reality, medicine in rural North America has been as dynamic and varied as rural society itself. Examples include "flying doctors" visiting Native...
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Pre-modern Beekeeping in China: A Short History
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (4): 235–255.
Published: 01 October 2012
... by exposing swarms to a large number of other bees flying across the path of the test swarm's route to their intended nest sites. While all four control swarms not subject to distraction found their nest box, only one of the six test swarms found the nest site. One wonders if the throwing of dirt was meant...
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Vaquero: Genesis of the Texas Cowboy
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (1): 117–118.
Published: 01 January 2006
..., Mexican cowboys. "I never saw an airplane fly over," Wittliff says in an afterword. "Not once. This added to the illusion that I was walking through the long ago" (171). The atmosphere informing that statement is eloquently conveyed in the collection of nearly one hundred brown tone photographs...
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Downstreamers: Public Health and Relationships on the Missouri River
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 393–404.
Published: 01 April 2002
... that Paquin was a very different kind of sanitarian than R. E. McDonnell or those who participated in the Missouri River Sani? tary Conference. Illustrative of Paquin's brand of public health was the 1915 "Fly Swatting" campaign. Fly swatting was upheld as an effective health measure and the public...
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Faith in Nature: Environmentalism as Religious Quest
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (1): 115–117.
Published: 01 January 2006
... years (until it was broken up and sold), Wittliff often visited the ranch, creating a photographic record depict- ing the life of those from whom all other cowpokes descend: the vaqueros, Mexican cowboys. "I never saw an airplane fly over," Wittliff says in an afterword. "Not once. This added...
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Agricultural Improvement and Technological Innovation in a Slave Society: The Case of Early National Northern Virginia
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (2): 135–167.
Published: 01 April 2001
... regularly consulted and described the findings of Europe's gen- tlemen farmers and agricultural improvers. From Italy came a report that grains of wheat fermented before sowing "produced above 15 Ears" each. In the 1790s, after Virginia's wheat crop became infested with the Hessian fly, farmers searched...
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Hybrid Teaching: A Classroom Case Study on the History of Mendelian Genetics
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (4): 622–627.
Published: 01 November 2023
... some of “the baffling clutter” surrounding heredity. 16 1. Harwood, “Did Mendelism Transform Plant Breeding?” 2. Deutch, “Mendel or Molecules First.” 3. Bierema and Schwartz, “Learning from the Fruit Fly” ; Mesmer, “Making Mendel's Model Manageable.” 4. Müller...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 513–517.
Published: 01 November 2024
... of durum wheat in Italy and the eradication of screwworm in Mexico and melon fly in the Okinawa prefecture—these contributions deconstruct the technocratic narratives often repeated in public debates, while providing a more complex and multilayered evaluation of the relationship between scientific...
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Purebred and Homegrown: America’s County Fairs
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (2): 272–273.
Published: 01 April 2010
.... "Flashingl,oud,familiarbutexotic,deep-friedm, anure-scentebdo, thtrashy andclean-cutinturnd, usty(unlessitrains),fly-infest(eadlwaysflies),sometimespastoraland grotesqueat the same time,spinningc,owboy-booted, hard-sells,oft-servpe,urebredand homegrown("7). Ifthisdescriptiondoes...
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Creating Abundance: Biological Innovation and American Agricultural Development
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (2): 271–272.
Published: 01 April 2010
.... "Flashingl,oud,familiarbutexotic,deep-friedm, anure-scentebdo, thtrashy andclean-cutinturnd, usty(unlessitrains),fly-infest(eadlwaysflies),sometimespastoraland grotesqueat the same time,spinningc,owboy-booted, hard-sells,oft-servpe,urebredand homegrown("7). Ifthisdescriptiondoes...
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“We were all Trespassers”: George Edward Lemmon, Anglo-American Cattle Ranching, and The Great Sioux Reservation
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 50–71.
Published: 01 January 2011
... transactions would be handled by an outside party. Some cattle remained in Nebraska and were identified with the Sheidley Company s traditional OSO brand, while most were sent north to graze the Dakota range under a new brand, the Flying V. Clark hired Lemmon as his assistant foreman and made preparations...
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Sweet Stuff: An American History of Sweeteners from Sugar to Sucralose
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (2): 265–266.
Published: 01 April 2013
... man s fly (the bee) in the settlement of America, and Donald Rumsfeld, as CEO of Searle & Company, exercising political influence in 1981 to ensure FDA approval of aspartame (169). The lack of discussion or analysis leaves it to the reader to speculate on what is the engine of causation: our...
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Magic Bean: The Rise of Soy in America
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (3): 564–565.
Published: 01 July 2019
... jargon is translated, other terms fly under the radar. For example, Roth defines phytochemicals but not nutraceuticals (240). Similarly, the story of the Depression Era chemurgist movement was interesting and educational, but the explanation of hedges and futures presented in the same chapter...
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Aiming for Pensacola: Fugitive Slaves on the Atlantic and Southern Frontiers
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (2): 277–278.
Published: 01 April 2016
... species; shifting struggles between government conservation authorities, local people, and elite fly fishermen; and a gradual, uneven, and still uncertain turn toward a more ecologically enlightened paradigm for managing the world-famous trout streams of the rocky Mountain West (3). That Brown manages...
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