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...Robert W. Wilcox Industrial Forests and Mechanical Marvels: Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Brazil . By Teresa Cribelli . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2016 . 254 pp., $99.99 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-1071-0056-5 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 444...

...E. Stanly Godbold, Jr. The Second Great Emancipation: The Mechanical Cotton Picker, Black Migration, and How They Shaped the Modern South . Donald Holley . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 530 / Agricultural History Simon Marthaler relied heavily on alfalfa hay...

...Thomas Burnell Colbert Iowa Farmers 1900-1952 and Mechanical Corn Pickers, THOMAS BURNELL COLBERT Large cropping equipment can be seen everywhere in Iowa today?from seven-ton tractors to twelve-ton self-propelled combines. All of these implements are a far cry from the machinery used from...

... their value to Chinese agriculture. Although proposals for rural mechanization were never widely implemented in this era, they are significant insofar as they demonstrate the ways these crises engendered new considerations of how to exploit the country’s land and water resources. This finding suggests...

...Claudio Robles-Ortiz Abstract This is the first study of the introduction of the tractor in a Latin American country before 1930. Challenging conventional views on agricultural mechanization in Chile, the article shows that a progressive sector of upper-class landowners and state experts introduced...

...Debra A. Reid Abstract Agricultural historians conveyed their knowledge to the public in various ways over the first one hundred years of the Agricultural History Society (1919-2019). Some invested their expertise in developing archival and museum collections. That work emphasized mechanical more...

... the importance of chattel credit in the agricultural mechanization that occurred during these years. This type of credit involved smaller principal sums than land credit but was a significant element in the business and commercial processes of the town and although more costly than land credit the difference...

... factor was a lack of scientific knowledge about farming under Australian conditions. By 1891 cane-growing techniques were reported to be "on the upgrade," with improved cane and sugar yields. Such a transformation had commenced due to the introduction of some mechanization and the dissemination...

...Nicola Gabellieri Abstract After World War II, the Italian government launched an agrarian reform scheme to develop rural areas (1950–1965). The plan aimed to create small, highly mechanized farms for social, political, and economic purposes. Using the textual, statistical, and cartographical...

... of early chemical insecticides as they came to define commercial agriculture between the emergence of Paris green in the 1870s and the popularity of DDT in the 1940s and beyond. Less understood, however, are the underlying mechanics of this transition. This article thus takes up the basic question of how...

...KENNETH SYLVESTER; GEOFF CUNFER Abstract The Green Revolution of the 1960s brought about a dramatic rise in global crop yields. But, as most observers acknowledge, this has come at a considerable cost to biodiversity. Plant breeding, synthetic fertilizers, and mechanization steadily narrowed...

... mechanized and production scale increased, access to advanced education and international markets became critical. Women, who had been in the forefront of the development of dairying, ceded their leadership to men as these changes occurred. While some scholars see this shift as a strategic loss for women...

... mechanism to address what many saw as vitamin deficiencies, Canada took a different route. Nature s Bread: The Natural Food Debate in Canada, 1940 1949 BRIAN PAYNE The medical discovery of vitamins in the 1920s ushered in a new era in food consumption patterns. The food industry sought to capture the public...

..., and the authorities were glad to avoid surpluses. On the input side, the area of arable land decreased, and the labor force declined drastically, primarily due to fewer smallholdings and fewer employees on the largest farms. Moreover, the decade saw a huge wave of mechanization, in the form of tractors...

... in the cotton season. Thus, for many years, growers found a ready labor supply in a rural population otherwise at loose ends. As this population relocated to cities, and as cotton farmers mechanized their operations, peach growers turned increasingly to the federal government to help shore up their workforces...

... examines the farm demand for stationary power and compares alternative power sources in 1895. It traces the development of the market for farm gas engines and its interaction with the markets for automobiles and tractors. It then presents evidence from magazines to show how farmers became engine mechanics...

...Daniel Ott Abstract During the 1880s and 1890s the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company created a brand based upon Cyrus H. McCormick's supposed invention of the mechanized reaper in 1831. The company's “prestige of priority” functioned to break the industry price-slashing deadlock of the “reaper...

... these technologies was the Rotolactor, a mechanical milking system that was the Borden Pavilion's centerpiece at the fair. Elsie's considerable popularity demonstrates that Borden's success also depended on the cultivation of nostalgic, pastoral visions of American farming as the nation stood at the threshold...

... of their economic participation. Examination of the bureaus' records and extant testimonies of Pima leaders deepens contemporary understanding of the common aims of government officials and Pima farmers, the sources of tension among these stakeholders, and the mechanisms by which Pima laborers adapted economic...

...Todd Cleveland Abstract This paper examines how a series of agricultural initiatives forestalled mechanization on the mines of the Companhia de Diamantes de Angola (Diamang) by facilitating the expansion of the company’s African labor force. Unlike other regional mining companies, from its...