... and culinary preparations, others for drying, and many "winter keepers" for long-term storage. These trees were supplied by distinctive, horticulturally trained farmers who produced grafted trees as part of their mixed crop output. Demand for this first catalog of American apple trees exploded in the Ohio...

... opinion that farming is boring being often repeated. For more on Ford family history and their farms, see Ford R. Bryan , The Fords of Dearborn , 2nd ed. ( Ford Books , 2004 ). 15. For an introduction to the work of Conny Graft, see Stacy Klinger and Conny Graft , “In Lieu of Mind...

... as the different solutions proposed to stop or delay the destruction insecticides, submersions, sand, and grafting. He is exceptionally good at showing the search for suitable rootstock (the vines needed to be resistant to phylloxera, compatible with the European scion, and thrive in local terrain). He offers...

...Peter Edwards Noble Brutes: How Eastern Horses Transformed English Culture . Donna Landry . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 2010 Book Reviews have added a few new methods of planting and grafting" and observes "a strong tendency to improve strains and develop new varieties...

... or agribusiness sex grafted into the biopower of the domination of nature? (74). The book is structured as a string of journal entries: rich ethnographic description in one section, ruminations on highbrow theory in others. Taussig calls it a political meditation more a cry of rage, really (245). He embraces...

... of canals in the 1820s and 1830s, apples came to be seen as a commodity. Meanwhile, the growing temperance movement discouraged the consumption of hard cider. The seedling trees planted by Chapman were supplanted with grafted trees scientifically bred for specific traits. As the nation became more...

... Book Reviews have added a few new methods of planting and grafting" and observes "a strong tendency to improve strains and develop new varieties through experi mentation" (173). The final three chapters examine the economics of agricul ture.Chapter 6 focuses on the development and use of irrigation...

... trees, Ford s team searched for disease-resistant plants in the far reaches of Amazonia and had some success in developing bud-grafting of high-yielding clones, playing a significant role in the development of tropical agronomy. But their efforts were far from adequate. Despite massive government...

... for an explanation to the dying vines, as well as the different solutions proposed to stop or delay the destruction insecticides, submersions, sand, and grafting. He is exceptionally good at showing the search for suitable rootstock (the vines needed to be resistant to phylloxera, compatible with the European scion...

... and efficiency were grafted onto the social values of New China. Railroad transportation also expanded for national defense and domestic political integration. In recent years, the high-speed train network has grown rapidly, central bureaucratic structure experienced substantial reorganization, and railroad...

... discouraged the consumption of hard cider. The seedling trees planted by Chapman were supplanted with grafted trees scientifically bred for specific traits. As the nation became more industrialized, so too did apple production. 448 ...

..., using Wes Jackson s Land Institute as the most recent example in a long history of human genetic manipulation of wheat. Amber Waves grafts a lot of interesting and dynamic science onto a fairly dated historical narrative. The resulting hybrid reinvigorates familiar stories and places, but doesn t...

.... Dolan begins in the 1850s with Melville and Thoreau. Each, she argues, was an astute critic of imperialism who realized that the United States had grafted an emphasis on controlling food systems to its imperial project. Thus what Dolan calls agri-expansion the harnessing of agriculture to Manifest...

...; it also directs changes in production tomeet changing consumer tastes. Advances in viti culturemake itpossible to change a vineyard fromone variety to another in just a few years by grafting the new onto the old stock, and new techniques in enology allow vintners to nuance wines during production. All...

... genetic manipulation of wheat. Amber Waves grafts a lot of interesting and dynamic science onto a fairly dated historical narrative. The resulting hybrid reinvigorates familiar stories and places, but doesn t represent a full biography of wheat and human society in South or East Asia. At its best, Amber...

... the brutality of his henchman, Harry Bennett, in Detroit. When epidemic disease, the inevitable foe of tropical monocrops, ravaged the industrial lines of rubber trees, Ford s team searched for disease-resistant plants in the far reaches of Amazonia and had some success in developing bud-grafting of high...

... of butter of a producer ethos, but the prices they fetched and profits they represented. Such calculations were also applied to mere promises of profit, as with machinery patents and licenses, fruit tree grafts, and mulberry cuttings. Quantification, monetization, abstraction: these were the hallmarks...

... interpretation drew from a Latin American fountain of cultural imaginaries, particularly the notions of Spanish mestizaje and Luso-Tropicalism s racial democracy. But they also applied a stream of agricultural metaphors from shared experiences in the field. The Spanish, they argued, grafted their culture...

... Apple Narrative scape, and they are carefully managed for their arboriculture structure as it ensures production. Apple trees require high maintenance, such as grafting, pruning, spraying, irrigating, and picking at the optimal time. This constant rhythm of management connects growers with the land...

.... Watson described his bondsman as a valuable NEGRO FELLOW, complete gardener and understanding perfectly the management of raising, grafting, budding, and pruning of trees wellknown in this city. 34 Enslaved gardeners did indeed practice a skilled craft as they had to know the soils, temperatures...