...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...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

..., 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

.... "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...

.... "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...

... 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...

... 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...

... facts requires more than basic working knowledge of agriculture, American history, cell biology, chemistry, and economics, and his explanations for the reader are inconsistent. While some jargon is translated, other terms fly under the radar. For example, Roth defines phytochemicals...

... considers the development of procedures for enhancing safety, maintaining planes, and properly training personnel. Pilots, he argues, had to be experts at more than just flying. Chapter Four examines the marketing of pesticides for aerial spraying. Both DuPont and Dow had to acknowledge the consequences...

... lived in a period when farms were being mechanized, electricity was being brought to rural areas, and new, progressive farm techniques were being incorporated. She gives readers an opportunity to be a fly on the wall as her family and others adapt to these changes. Spikes writes in a style that invites...

... mechanized, electricity was being brought to rural areas, and new, progressive farm techniques were being incorporated. She gives readers an opportunity to be a fly on the wall as her family and others adapt to these changes. Spikes writes in a style that invites readers to sit down, linger over coffee...

... history, illustrated through the appearance of such strange bedfellows as Thomas Jefferson waxing philosophically in 1785 on the importance of the white 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...

... to create new opportunities for those who processed linen, flax, and wool. Her second chapter follows through by focusing on early developments in the textile industry. Most of the Men and Machines featured here will ring a bell Kay and the flying shuttle, Hargreaves and the spinning jenny, Arkwright...