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...: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1953 ), 227 -330 46 P. J. Cain and A. J. Hopkins, British Imperialism: Innovation and Expansion, 1688– 1914 (London: Longman Group, 1993 ), 3 -52. Fescue to the Rescue: Chewings Fescue, Paspalum, and the Application of Non-British Experience to Pastoral Practice...

...Hanes Walton, Jr. 2008 Book Reviews But the book does more than present the variety of practice. Its theo retical framework shows how schools reflect and create different sorts of Old Order communities. The nature of schooling in ultra-conservative and so-called Swartzentruber Amish settlements...

.../ . Yeotopia Found But? The Yeoman Ideal that Underpinned New Zealand Agricultural Practice into the Early Twenty-First Century, with American and Australian Comparisons TOM BROOKING This is a big-picture article based on a lifetime s cumulative research. It builds on versions of the paper delivered...

... the peasants themselves. The article further argues that Gómez Morín’s ideas changed rather dramatically when put into practice. Administrators were concerned with the pragmatic issues of making sure ejidatarios amortized their debts appropriately and applied their loans to the crops the federal government...

...Julie Courtwright America's Fires: A Historical Context for Policy and Practice . By Stephen J. Pyne . Durham, NC : Forest History Society , 2010 . 94 pp., $9.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-89030-073-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 Agricultural History Winter...

...Takashi Iida Abstract In early modern Brandenburg-Prussia, feudal lords ( Gutsherren ) were primarily the owners of both large estates that required peasant labor and large forests from which they were obligated to supply their peasants with life's necessities. This paper examines the practice...

... to practice hybrid breeding of boars, while the breed associations remained concerned with pure breeding or crossbreeding. The history of pig breeding in the Netherlands, the author states succinctly, illustrates “the inadequacy of the ‘art-to-science’ scenario as an explanation of how breeding became...

... of theory and as a form of practice, may be grounded in something less savory than epistemological superiority or the ability to improve farming practice. This article explores how the meaning of farm management changed substantially over the course of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, from...

...Suman Seth Technology’s Dilemma: Agricultural Colleges between Science and Practice in Germany, 1860-1934 . Jonathan Harwood . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 Book Reviews ture,one that scholars would be well advised to read in tandem with Trevor Burnard's...

...Brian Donahue Farming for Us All: Practical Agriculture & the Cultivation of Sustainability . Michael Mayerfeld Bell . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 BookReviews state humanities and arts councils. Times are now harder for regional mu seums as well as family...

.... The ProliferationofAgriculturalSchools: A Practical Education inGreece (1922-1932) GEORGE KRITIKOS This studyanalyzes theproliferation of agricultural schools inGreece from 1922 to1932 from a social, economic, and culturalperspective. It examines the role of theGreek vernacular language-demotic-and vernacular edu cation as tools...

... was not answered by every grower. agricultural practices in the Maryborough district in 1875, strongly condemned this practice claiming excess water would pool and stagnate in the holes, thereby damaging the root system of the plants. Moreover, canegrowers using this technique often planted as much cane...

... and why the differing systems emanating from them affected animal industries over the twentieth and into the twenty-first century. Looking at methodology through the lens of its theoretical roots provides an enriched appreciation of the interrelationship between science and practice, and also shows...

...Douglas W. Allen Legalising Land Rights: Local Practices, State Responses, and Tenure Security in Africa, Asia and Latin America . Edited by Janine M. Ubrink, André J. Hoekema, and Willem J. Assies . Leiden : Leiden University Press , 2010 , 618 pp., $69.50 , paperback, ISBN 978-90...

... of their skills in examining other practical problems facing rural people. © the Agricultural History Society, 2014 2014 NOTES 1. My thanks to Jessica Oswalt for her help with the early research on this project and Carlton Basmajian who read and commented upon much of this in the form of our USDAAFRI...

...Christopher Bosso Cities of Farmers: Urban Agricultural Practices and Processes . Edited by Julie C. Dawson and Alfonso Morales . Iowa City : University of Iowa Press , 2016 . 326 pp., $55.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-60938-437-1 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 576...

...Allison Margaret Bigelow The Science of Useful Nature in Central America: Landscapes, Networks, and Practical Enlightenment, 1784–1838 . By Sophie Brockmann . Cambridge : University of Cambridge Press , 2020 . 283 pp., $99.99 hardback , ISBN 9781108421232. © 2021 Agricultural...

...,carefultillage,productiveuse of waterthroughirrigationor drainage,the widespreaduse of conservationpractices,andthe balancedfeedingof livestock. Pacific Northwest Wheat / 435 summer fallowing is the usual practice, whereas higher rainfall areas prac? tice annual cropping. The plateau slopes upward from its...

... with the society's assessment. The school's curriculum, like those of many other scientific schools in the country, emphasized theory over practice. The classrooms and laboratories were in downtown Medellin, and the experi? ment fields were outside the city. Students seldom visited the fields, most of which were...