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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (2): 215–238.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Katie Holmes; Kylie Mirmohamadi Abstract Between 1926 and 1935 the Better Farming Train made seven trips to the Victorian Mallee region. Modeled on North American examples, the mission of the Train was to spread the “doctrine of better farming” to this wheat-growing region. The Train carried...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (3): 408–409.
Published: 01 July 2008
...Steven M. Nolt Train up a Child: Old Order Amish and Mennonite Schools . Karen M. Johnson-Weiner . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 Agricultural History Summer additional themes. Regarding gender, for instance, the role of married women in the family economy of Plains...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (4): 479–505.
Published: 01 October 2010
..., individuals with their own agendas absorbed and transformed these policies. Local farmers utilized imported agricultural knowledge for their own purposes and did not conform to the experiences or expectations of American-trained agricultural missionaries. Within these mission communities, converts...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (4): 423–450.
Published: 01 October 2010
... and culinary preparations, others for drying, and many "winter keepers" for long-term storage. These trees were supplied by distinctive, horticulturally trained farmers who produced grafted trees as part of their mixed crop output. Demand for this first catalog of American apple trees exploded in the Ohio...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (2): 174–194.
Published: 01 April 2011
... methods he encountered, and options for advocacy he explored, during the 1960s and 1970s. Agricultural institutions sought to assign more power to institutionalized scientific knowledge, shrinking the role of farmers. Berry sought an alternative definition of knowledge, drawing upon his training...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (1): 31–54.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Lyvia Diser Abstract During the 1870s Belgium followed the path of other European countries and created its first public agricultural laboratories under the direction of Arthur Petermann, a young German agricultural scientist. Petermann had been trained in the well-established European stations...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (3): 57–76.
Published: 01 July 2012
... a visual literacy that few historians have been trained to exercise. This essay explains some of the reasons for the disciplinary divides that separate objects and their curators from historians and their research agendas. It introduces myriad approaches to reading material culture that have the potential...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (3): 333–357.
Published: 01 July 2007
...Joel Orth Abstract During the Shelterbelt Project of the 1930s, foresters trained and instilled with Progressive-era values confronted an uncooperative public and nature on the Great Plains. Foresters assumed planting trees in shelterbelts was primarily a scientific and technical task. However...
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in Beyond Bananas: The United Fruit Company and Agricultural “Diversification”
> Agricultural History
Published: 01 August 2023
figure 3. “United Fruit Company Organization” chart showing the new research department under the management of Hartley Rowe, an industrial engineer by training. “Vice-Presidents of the United Fruit Company,” 132.
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in “Women Work Particularly Well in Community Organizations”: Cultivating Community and Consumerism in the Comanche County REA Women's Club, 1939–1940
> Agricultural History
Published: 01 May 2024
: Standing: Miss Young, Singer Representative; Mrs. W. W. Chancellor; Mrs. J. B. Pogue; Miss Martha Wetzel; Seated: Mrs. Paul Hampton; Miss Frankie Wood; Mrs. Camp Cowan.” Nale, “Training Program in Home Electrification,” box 23, folder 3, Mamer Papers, SNMAH. Courtesy of Smithsonian Archives Center, Louisan
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (2): 147–186.
Published: 01 May 2024
...: Standing: Miss Young, Singer Representative; Mrs. W. W. Chancellor; Mrs. J. B. Pogue; Miss Martha Wetzel; Seated: Mrs. Paul Hampton; Miss Frankie Wood; Mrs. Camp Cowan.” Nale, “Training Program in Home Electrification,” box 23, folder 3, Mamer Papers, SNMAH. Courtesy of Smithsonian Archives Center, Louisan...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (3): 393–411.
Published: 01 July 2019
... by the Georgia Department of Public Health; the letter refers to characters and specific scenes from the film. The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has used the film in midwifery training, and it was added to the National Film Registry in 2002. See George C. Stoney, prod...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 164–186.
Published: 01 May 2022
.... One special farm-training school opened for teenage boys evacuated from the bombing in London, and the government's Schoolboy Harvest Camps Advisory Committee established camps for teenage workers. 7 Keenly aware of what was happening in Europe as well as Great Britain's determined resistance...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (2): 290–292.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., hardback, ISBN 978-0-6743-6817-0. Since the late nineteenth century, railroads have acted as crucial arteries in China s journey to modernity and industrialization. From the archaic steam locomotive to present high-speed bullet train, China s railroad network has experienced tremendous changes. Examining...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (3): 477–501.
Published: 01 July 2019
... Negroes in South Carolina,” n.d. (typescript), p. 19, South Carolina State University Special Collections, Orangeburg, SC; “Report of the President,” CNIAMC 24 (1920): 11. Field workers were trained at State College from June 28 to July 2. Christine South, “Annual Report of Home Demonstration Work...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (4): 558–559.
Published: 01 October 2008
... ists themselves, or even of the economic and societal impacts of agroterror ism.Rather, as the title implies, the book ismeant to inform and train first 558 2008 BookReviews responders in efficient and effective actions in response to purposeful sabo tage of crops or farm animals by agroterrorists...
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (1): 52–82.
Published: 01 January 2001
... discouraged their offspring from seeking train? ing in technical professions. Within these professions, agriculture had a particularly low status. A Colombia planter feared that Colombia's "ignorance of modern agriculture" would remain until "rich and enlightened men dedicate themselves, as they do in England...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (3): 448–477.
Published: 01 August 2023
... the improvement of wheat, barley, and rice in Nanking, eventually making its College of Agriculture and Forestry a crucial training ground many Chinese agricultural scientists. 11 Shen become a professor in Nanking in 1927, and in 1933 established the National Agricultural Research Bureau with the backing...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (1): 78–103.
Published: 01 January 2012
..., Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati, Ohio (hereafter CHLA). 9. Marilyn Irvin Holt , The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America ( Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 1992 ); Stephen O'Connor , Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children he Saved and Failed...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (2): 143–166.
Published: 01 April 2006
... of Public Road Inquiries, 332 FHA, America’s Highways, 45-47 Seely, Building the American Highway System, 14-16 Martin
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, Report of the Office of Public Road Inquiries (Washington, DC: GPO, 1902 ), 309 22 "Good Roads Train and Road Improvement Exhibits" flier, File 530, Box 95...
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