...Annie Potts Poultry Science, Chicken Culture: A Partial Alphabet . By Susan Merrill Squier . New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press , 2011 . 296 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8135-4924-8 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 2013 Book Reviews as possible...

...Russell Pryor Commercial Poultry Production on Maryland's Lower Eastern Shore: The Role of African Americans, 1930s to 1990s . By Solomon Iyobosa Omo-Osagie II . Lanham, Md. : University Press of America , 2012 . 206 pp., $60.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-7618-5876-8 . ©...

...,dhesetuphisownfeedcompany (Aragonesade PiensosS, A) to overcomedependencyon international grainsH. e also diversifiepdroductionb,ecominginvolvedin theother risingstarinthelivestocksectort,hepig.15 Porkproductionfollowedthe same pathmarkedout by poultry, althoughwitha timelapse.Therequiredinputsp,articularlgyenetically...

... for more complex forms of farming," Vance could not foresee that soon furnishing merchants would refashion the crop lien to facilitate poultry production. For some time, politicians, Vance, and a host of rural reformers waged an unsuccessful war against the crop lien, and its close relatives sharecropping...

... ( 2000 ): 85 – 103 . 4. Joan Thirsk , Alternative Agriculture: A History from the Black Death to the Present Day ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1997 ), 189 – 95 , 212 ; Brian Short , “The Art and Craft of Chicken Cramming: Poultry in the Weald of Sussex, 1850–1950...

...-twentieth century, her historical framework provides context for some of the current human and environmental costs of poultry farming dependence. In this brief seventy-two-page text, Gisolfi uses the Georgia Upcountry region to illustrate national trends of this complex development in which poultry replaced...

... foundation from which to assess the meanings of the contemporary poultry industry for chickens and humans alike. Potts s Chicken stands out, no small feat in this era when the chicken book seems a genre onto itself, from Stephen Green-Armytage s Extraordinary Chickens to Steve Striffler s excellent...

... in theDelmarva region and in the Upcountry South turned to poultry to bolster plummeting incomes. Southern entrepreneurs such as JohnTyson and Jesse Jewell began trucking 575 AgriculturHalistory Fall the birds to urban markets, first inModel Ts and later in tractor-trailers. Searching for steadier supplies...

... , 125; George H. Shull, “What is ‘Heterosis’?” Genetics 33 (Sept. 1948): 439-46. 32. Don C. Warren, “A Half Century of Advances in the Genetics and Breeding Improvement of Poultry,” Poultry Science 37, no. 1 (1958): 3-5. 33. Geneticist Wilhelm Johanssen recognized the value of pure...

... Agricultural History the agency in this case ultimately lies with the Old Hen the farm wife in adopting poultry science. The competition between men and women over the poultry business reached as high as university agriculture departments, such as at Cornell. Whereas farm families traditionally had...

... and the northern Great Plains. From there, they either chose to cross the Sierra Nevada and head for San Francisco or to go southward, drive through Nevada, and head for Los Angeles. In California, the Red River Valley or the Central Valley wheat farms and fruit growing areas as well as the poultry farms...

... of the barn is at the right. The forebay, or overhang, is visible on the downslope side. The gable end was then extended, the ell added, and the whole re-sided. The pigsty is at the gable end of the ell. The small square windows visible on the right-hand gable were inserted for poultry sometime in the early...

... in the poultry industry puts it: if you choose to work as a broiler farmer you need only see chickens at night on your dinner plate). Squier s eloquent examination of our cultural history with chickens also covers such diverse topics as the representation of chickens in literature, film, and visual culture...

... of the shift to industrial chicken farming that occurred in the American South. While Gisolfi primarily focuses on the mid-twentieth century, her historical framework provides context for some of the current human and environmental costs of poultry farming dependence. In this brief seventy-two-page text...

... the Seed: The Political Economy of Biotechnology, 1492–2000 ( Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2004 ); William Boyd , “Making Meat: Science, Technology, and American Poultry Production,” Technology and Culture 42 ( Oct. 2001 ): 631 – 64 . Stuart B. Levy , The Antibiotic...

... with the Colonies and Other Countries,” 1912, Cd. 6032. See also Wilmot, “From ‘Public Service’ to Artificial Insemination.” Works Cited Alberta Department of Agriculture . Practical Poultry Keeping . Poultry Bulletin 2. Edmonton, 1911 . Alexander Will . “ Eugenics and Animal Science: Two...

... (the preferred term) and writes warmly and engagingly of what she knows. After the introductory "hook" of Petaluma's 1918 de? cision to stick with chickens, the next thirty, short, thematic chapters are largely chronological, covering every conceivable aspect of Petaluma's poultry industry: from precursors...

... because the state embraced right-to-work laws that weakened unions. Simon then pivots to a history of the poultry industry with an emphasis on the forces that made chicken surpass beef in per capita consumption by the early 1990s. Next, Simon surveys the labor market in the area surrounding Hamlet. Citing...

... from 1950 to 2000, which boosted production while the share of the workforce fell to less than 3 percent. Amazingly, this trend occurred to a significant extent against the will of the authorities. For instance, a poultry regulation of 1952 imposed limits on the expansion of poultry production...

... Cranbury particularly appealing as a case study in community preservation. It was former Speaker of the House Thomas P. Tip O Neill who famously said that, all politics is local ; books like Cranbury remind us that the same might be said of history. Mark Edward Lender Kean University Poultry Science...