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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (2): 262–263.
Published: 01 April 2006
...Glen Sample Ely Frontier Texas: History of a Borderland to 1880 . Robert F. Pace and Donald S. Frazier . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 262 / Agricultura] History nothing about entertainments in which he and his acquaintances participated together. The editorial...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (4): 622–623.
Published: 01 October 2015
...Glen Sample Ely Fort Worth: Outpost, Cowtown, Boomtown . By Harold Rich . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2014 . 272 pp., $29.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8061-4492-4 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural History Fall operative, and New Deal...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (4): 389–412.
Published: 01 October 2004
...Jeremy Atack Abstract The paper announces the imminent availability of a major extension of the well-known Bateman-Foust sample. This new resource will contain linked agricultural and population census data between 1850 and 1880 for thousands of individuals in an expanded group of townships...
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (2): 147–172.
Published: 01 April 2005
...Douglas McCalla Abstract Based on account books, a frequently overlooked type of source, this is a study of grocery purchases made by sample customers from some country stores in Upper Canada (Ontario), in selected years between 1808 and 1861. Although literary sources suggest otherwise, no one...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (2): 174–200.
Published: 01 April 2009
... not quickly take root, William James Beai and Liberty Hyde Bailey led an expedition of scientists and journalists on a trip across northern Michigan in June 1888 to collect botanical samples, to find a site for a state forest reserve, and to recommend appropriate farming enterprises. This essay contends...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (3): 352–383.
Published: 01 July 2009
... metaphorically as wheat factories, degrading successive landscapes. While in many ways these farms were a departure from earlier forms of husbandry in the American experience, monocultures were quite rare during the early transformation of the plains. Analysis of a large representative sample, based...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (3): 414–447.
Published: 01 August 2023
... to the call for new international research and development efforts while avoiding the limitations of predecessor programs associated with the Green Revolution. It highlights the challenges inherent in this work by focusing on ambitions for—and challenges to—providing standardized information about samples...
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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (4): 527–552.
Published: 01 October 2003
... ideal for family farms, so long as land values were sufficiently high. Drawing on census samples collected by James Irwin, the essay argues that the peculiar affinity between slavery and wheat-growing in Virginia can best be explained by property rights. Specifically, control over a captive labor force...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (2): 225–251.
Published: 01 April 2011
.... These numbers are subject to the provision that the end date for my store sample is 1878 rather than 1880, which is mitigated by the fact that much of the Tenth Census was gathered in 1879. Ransom and Sutch wrote that field reports in the Dun ledgers (from which the Reference Books were compiled) were...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (4): 649–655.
Published: 01 November 2023
... then read a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) document that demonstrates how a failed soil fertility test (tricalcium phosphate fertilizer was accidentally labeled as a soil sample) further severed local trust of federal conservation programs in the larger context of external pressure to adopt commercial...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (4): 488–512.
Published: 01 October 2017
... , “Nobel Lecture: The Economics of Being Poor,” Journal of Political Economy 88 (Aug. 1980 ): 639 – 51 . For a sampling of studies of present-day peasant societies, see, John Weeks , “Uncertainty, Risk, and Wealth and Income Distribution in Peasant Agriculture,” Journal of Development...
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in Diversifying Description: Sweet Potato Science and International Agricultural Research after the Green Revolution
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Published: 01 August 2023
figure 1. A subset of the crop descriptors to be used by plant collectors when obtaining samples of sweet potato varieties in the field, as set out by an international expert meeting in 1980. From IBPGR, Genetic Resources of Sweet Potato . Republished by permission of Bioversity International.
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in Diversifying Description: Sweet Potato Science and International Agricultural Research after the Green Revolution
> Agricultural History
Published: 01 August 2023
figure 2. A subset of the crop descriptors to be used by plant breeders and other researchers when evaluating sweet potato plants, especially those associated with gene-banked samples. From IBPGR, Genetic Resources of Sweet Potato . Republished by permission of Bioversity International.
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (3): 703–704.
Published: 01 July 2000
...-called public-use samples compiled from every decennial U.S. cen? sus and provides "national-level information with which to trace longitudinal patterns for a wide variety of personal and household characteristics, in? cluding family patterns" (p. 182). The author uses data from 1910 and 1940 to track...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (4): 413–416.
Published: 01 October 2004
... their newsletter along with that from the Economies Department. Economic history became my avocation early in my graduate career, thanks primarily to discussions with Fred Bateman and his invitation to work as his research assistant on the Bateman-Foust linked sample from the censuses of agriculture and population...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (3): 342–368.
Published: 01 July 2017
.... The timing and the practices that led to high-output agriculture were specific to geographic location and shaped by cumulative local experience.3 To make the case for diverse patterns of Green Revolution, this paper draws extensively on a new sample of agricultural census data. These household-level surveys...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (1): 36–68.
Published: 01 January 2021
... up the Olmstead-Rhode sample that have been used here can be found in Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode, “Biological Innovation and Productivity Growth in the Antebellum Cotton Economy,” Journal of Economic History 68, no. 4 (Dec. 2008), 1123-71. 23. Rosenthal does not distinguish between...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (4): 591–605.
Published: 01 October 2014
... this type of print literature in collections left by official state suffrage organizations, and then only in small samples. Perhaps most revealing, none of the small-town suffrage groups kept any copies of the thousands of pieces of propaganda they requested in the correspondence they left. As i delved...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (3): 373–397.
Published: 01 July 2011
.... Schultz , “Testing the Significance of Mean Values Drawn from Stratified Samples,” Journal of Farm Economics 15 ( July 1933 ): 452 – 75 . 11. Emmanuel Didier , “De l'échantillon à la population: Sociologie de la généralisation par sondage aux États-Unis avant la seconde guerre...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (1): 121–145.
Published: 01 February 2023
..., Salmon gathered a collection of plant material with which to make genetic crosses. He started by collecting local samples from growers as well as wild hops found in hedgerows and forest margins. Acquaintances such as the Wiggins and Richardson Company—the most prominent English hop dealer to have...
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