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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 24–60.
Published: 01 January 2020
...Mark Aldrich Abstract Beginning in the 1870s, kerosene stoves became fixtures in many farm kitchens, as households shifted from wood or coal to oil fuel. Surveys during the 1930s reveal that, outside of cities, oil was afar more common cooking fuel than gas. Yet the literature on farm and rural...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (2): 190–209.
Published: 01 April 2018
...R. W. Sandwell Abstract This article provides a brief history of the origins and use of the first modern lighting in rural Canada. Of all the revolutions in lighting, none was taken up more quickly or embraced more widely than the coal-oil (also called kerosene) lamp. This paper argues...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (4): 468–495.
Published: 01 October 2008
... cropswithninetymillionpoundsofarsenicals,sev enty-threme illion pounds of sulfur,tenmillion gallons of kerosene, twenty-onme illion pounds each of naphthalene and pyrethrumB. y 1937,withDDT just around the corner,chemicaluse was standard practiceinAmerican agricultures,omuch so thata prominentStanford scientiswt rote...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (2): 343–344.
Published: 01 May 2023
... individual women's stories. The example of a woman cheating in the honey jarring competition by dyeing kerosene to look like the purest honey represents the type of colorful anecdote that brings this history to life. Nurse's work inspires the reader to look into their own local and familial past...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (3): 471–474.
Published: 01 August 2022
... of women in energy historiography, Karen Sayer discusses in chapter 2 the ways in which English women used and adapted candlepower prior to the introduction of gas and electric lighting. In chapter 3, Sandwell examines Canadian women's concerns about kerosene lamps, gas-powered stoves, and other...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (3): 413–443.
Published: 01 July 2020
... of English manufacture distributed by Gibbs and Company; an improved version of the “Fordson, the universal tractor”; “the Romeo,” an Italian machine of the most “solid construction”; the “Avery,” a kerosene tractor available in seven sizes and featuring “the only carburetor that has produced good results...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 515–529.
Published: 01 April 2000
... occasional advantages over electrical appliances. Mrs. W. D. Eliot, for example, kept her woodstove in case of power outages and used it throughout the winter to heat the home. She also claimed that the only dif? ference between her kerosene Alladin lamp and electric lights was that the electric lamps...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (1): 204–206.
Published: 01 January 2021
.... The chapters each culminate with some discussion of the chemicals used in attempts to manage each disease, such as kerosene in the case of malaria, or a range of fumigants and rat poisons in the case of plague. Part III focuses on the development of chemicals for use in war. The section s first chapter...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (2): 222–227.
Published: 01 April 2004
... of large specialized producers, including large corpo? rations such as Tyson and ConAgra. While the number of farms declined sharply, especially in the latter half of the twentieth century, most of the remaining commercial farmers live much better than the horse-power, kerosene lamp, and outhouse...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 451–464.
Published: 01 April 2000
..." with "an old cook stove," Otto explained. Others cooked on kerosene camp stoves, particularly in the South? west where the heat of a wood stove would have been unbearable for much of the year. Yuma Mesa homesteader Myrtle Paulsen, like many who were accustomed to cooking with electricity, was "scared to death...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (4): 464–470.
Published: 01 October 2007
... or television. This was the early 1950s, and, at the time, I did not realize that save for an occasional trip toNevada City, therewas little to distinguish the ranch from theway itmust have looked when the house and barn were built in the nineteenth century. There was a wooden stove, kerosene lanterns...
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (3): 271–278.
Published: 01 July 2001
... for a time.5 In 1939, exhausted by his struggle against the persistent dust storms, and with his finances, health, and spirit all sapped, Svobida left his farm. He moved to the home of Shirley Friedrich's parents in Hickock, Kansas. There, by the light of a kerosene lamp, Svobida began to write his memoir...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (3): 296–311.
Published: 01 July 2006
... their bodies to the center of the kitchen, and doused them with oil or kerosene to burn the evidence and hopefully the entire house. However, with the windows tightly closed, the fire lost its oxygen supply, burned through the linoleum kitchen floor, and dropped the bodies into the basement. The flames soon...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (3): 287–313.
Published: 01 July 2013
... of the century, fifteen states produced oil. Crude prices, extremely volatile in the first two decades of production, stabilized around a dollar a barrel on average by the 1880s. In the early days of oil, kerosene became common in rural homes as fuel for lamps and was widely available in general stores, grocery...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (1): 3–28.
Published: 01 January 2015
... the four most common poisons that came into use during the late nineteenth century: Paris Green, London Purple, a kerosene emulsion, and a carbolic emulsion. All were in use in Arkansas at this time. Arkansas Industrial University , Some New Insecticides and Their Effect on Cotton Worms , Agricultural...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (2): 147–186.
Published: 01 May 2024
... equipment that would be appealing for farmers to buy, and for dealers to sell, that also used a lot of electricity. 63 The electric range fit the bill perfectly. However, many farm women had grown accustomed to their existing gas, kerosene, or wood-burning stoves and needed considerable convincing...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (3): 281–326.
Published: 01 July 2010
... portrayed them as poor and desperate. Oh you'd pay 'em somuch an hour 'cause most of them people had not much tobacco, theyhad little tinybarns. But ifyou didn't [want to pay cash], you'd pay them incornbread and kerosene because kerosene didn't cost but five cents a gallon, and cornmeal wasn't nothing_And...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 530–544.
Published: 01 April 2000
... day. If a tractor were used instead of horses, two more acres could be completed. However, another man could be hired for hand husking for the cost of kerosene and oil used. Then, too, this farmer feared down time for picker repair. "The av? erage implement dealer," he stated, "doesn't stock repairs...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (1): 78–96.
Published: 01 January 2008
... somebody living on a carpet." She remembered people using mules and horses to run a press making sorghum molasses. For a while they lived without electricity, using kerosene lamps. "The lamp globes, we had towash them out," she said. "It was a difficult life, but we made it."When asked if she would ever go...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (2): 172–189.
Published: 01 April 2018
..., running off distillate of kerosene and propelled by steel wheels, followed the mass production of the automobile. Ford, International Harvester, Allis Chalmers, and John Deere were but the most successful among dozens of companies, mostly rooted in the American Midwest, that propelled the tractor craze.5...
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