Search Results for plow

...Jane Mt. Pleasant Abstract Iroquois maize farmers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries produced three to five times more grain per acre than wheat farmers in Europe. The higher productivity of Iroquois agriculture can be attributed to two factors. First, the absence of plows in the western...

...Patricia Stovey When Horses Pulled the Plow: Life of a Wisconsin Farm Boy, 1910–1929 . By Olaf F. Larson . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2011 . 168 pp., $17.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-299-28204-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 2012 Book Reviews...

...Stacey E. Holden By Sword and Plow: France and the Conquest of Algeria . By Jennifer E. Sessions . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2011 . 352 pp., $49.50 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8014-4975-8 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 Book Reviews Africa By Sword...

...Amanda McGee [email protected] Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery . By Bruce A. Ragsdale . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2021 . 388 pp., $29.95 , hardback, ISBN 9780674246386. Copyright © 2023 the Agricultural History Society...

...Ken Sylvester Plowed Under: Agriculture and Environment in the Palouse . Andrew P. Duffin . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 AgriculturHalistory Winter unclearina conclusionthatfeelsmorerushedthanconclusiveN. evertheless, roEvedseeornll'voseoed...

... of the agricultural practices adopted by the country’s first canegrowers, noting a lack of careful cultivation and plowing, fertilizer use, drainage, and paddock design. Various reasons for the use of these "inadequate techniques" are discussed in this essay, with the conclusion being offered that the most important...

... to be convinced that new practices were beneficial. The cooperation of SCS, ASCS, and other agencies facilitated the work of introducing new practices, such as disking, root plowing, seeding of new grasses, and range management practices. Farmers also benefited from new practices. Construction of Falcón Dam...

... tractors, primarily as a solution to poor plowing and low land productivity. The first tractors were tested in 1907, starting a process of technological innovation that resulted in the adoption of tractors after World War I. Introducing the tractor into the large estates of a peripheral rural society...

...JOSEPH J. JONES Abstract In the second half of the nineteenth century, lumbermen logged the virgin pine forests of northern Michigan. The assumption was that the u plow would follow the axe, "and agriculture would dominate the region as it did in the southern half of the state. When farming did...

... the number of crop varieties commercially available to farmers and promoted fencerow-to-fencerow monocultures. Many historians trace the origins of this style of industrialized agriculture to the last great plow-up of the Great Plains in the 1920s. In the literature, farms in the plains are often described...

... of practicing agriculture in a marginal environment and their ability to succeed in the face of periodic, intense, drought. An extension of older weather modification theories—such as rain follows the plow—rainmaking facilitated hope and empowered believers. Doubters, meanwhile, participated under the guise...

... dynamic regions, utilized plows or similar equipment or applied chemical fertilizers. © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 NOTES 1. For studies on coffee districts, see, Stanley J. Stein , Vassouras: A Brazilian Coffee County, 1850–1900: The Roles of Planter and Slave in a Plantation...

... rows. 24 In a newly plowed field the furrows appear as a distinctive dark line pattern. Fields most commonly have a geometric shape where the topography permits; otherwise they may follow contours. Tone can vary, but in general light tones will predominate, with some crops appearing darker...

... in Australia s countryside highlights the popularity of plowing contests among practicing farmers. And the joint survey by Kate Darian-Smith and Sara Wills on Australian agricultural shows contains a brief historical outline of the subject, suggesting that those events were actively engaged in popularizing new...

... in 1836 and settled in Moline. Early on, he made a steel plow. The authors reject the idea that he invented this tool, noting that he often copied other plow makers, and maintain that his "real innovation" lay in his ability to improve the product (91). The result was an implement capable of working...

...), 10.6b. 76. Bai Hewen et al., eds., Zhongguo jindai nongye keji shigao (Beijing: Zhongguo nongye keji chubanshe, 1995), 12. 77. “Farming in China,” North-China Herald and Market Report , Aug. 14, 1868. It was later reported that a John Fowler steam plow was sent to China around this time...

... stressed the gospel of the plow in order to cultivate modern entre preneurs who utilized better farmingmethods. Missionaries felt a thriving peasantry would constitute a more receptive and permanent audience for their evangelical efforts, as "one whose struggle for existence is too severe has little...

... Keeps Balance on Hill," Wash¬ ington Farmer, Aug. 20, 1936, 6 "Palouse Farmers Are Tractor Minded," Pullman Herald, Aug. 21,1936,6 "Diesel Plowing Costs Seven Cents an Acre," Washington Farmer, Sept. 17, 1936, 10 "Our Farm Forces Require Good Equipment Too," Washington Farmer, Feb. 26, 1942, 2-3...

... currency and with a pitiful crop the cotton is not going to be much if it don t rain Robinson described the prospect of government assistance on June 24, 1933: the government is waunting [sic] the farmers to plow up part of their cotton for $10.00 per acre. Six days later, Robinson, Papa, Uncle Joe...