...Nellie Jane Compton Copyright © 1932 by Duke University Press 1932 JOEL McFEE, MASTER FARMER NELLIE JANE COMPTON LATELY, there have been named in my state each year, y three or four Master Farmers. They are chosen by a group of judges who consider carefully the qualifications of the men who...

...A. J. Morrison Copyright © 1918 by Duke University Press 1918 The Historical Farmer in America A. J. Morrison It is a matter of interest to observe how agriculture in America began to find its chronicle and formal organization about the time of the Revolution. As with other forms of American...

...Harry J. Carman; Carl T. Schmidt Copyright © 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 THE AMERICAN FARMER IN A CHANGING WORLD HARRY J. CARMAN and CARL T. SCHMIDT CULTIVATORS of the earth are the most valuable of citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous...

...Philip N. Racine Emily Lyles Harris: A Piedmont Farmer During the Civil War Philip N. Racine Emily Harris, a South Carolina farmer s wife of the last century, might well have been missed as far as history is concerned except for the fact that she married a man who kept a journal. Her husband...

...Robert F. Durden Farmer Movements in the South, 1865-1933 . ( University of California Publications in History, Vol. 64 .) By Saloutos Theodore . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1960 . Pp. ix , 354 . $6.50 . Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press...

...James O. Knauss Copyright © 1926 by Duke University Press 1926 The Farmers Alliance in Florida James O. Knauss Florida State College Agriculturally speaking, Florida may be divided into two parts, almost equal in area, by a line extending from the mouth of the Suwanee River on the Gulf...

...Enoch Marvin Banks Copyright © 1904 by Duke University Press 1904 Tendencies Among Georgia Farmers By Enoch Marvin Banks There are over two and a quarter million people in Georgia and two-thirds of them are directly dependent upon the returns of agriculture for support. This fact alone...

...Charles Lee Raper Copyright © 1914 by Duke University Press 1914 The Use of Credit by the North Carolina Farmers Charles Lee Raper Professor of Economics in the University of North Carolina The farmer, or any other man who buys and sells products or services, has vital need for the cheapest...

...Gordon Wright Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 FRENCH FARMERS IN POLITICS Gordon Wright AT BOTTOM, France is a peasants republic. That, I believe, is the key to understanding the fundamental facts of French politics. So wrote a prominent British analyst in the early years...

...Cornelius O. Cathey The Farmer’s Age: Agriculture, 1815-1860 . By Gates Paul W. . New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston , 1960 . Pp. xviii , 460 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 Book Reviews 359 ened by reference to the influence of the contractual...

...Clarence Poe Copyright © 1919 by Duke University Press 1919 Volume XVIII JANUARY, 1919 Number 1 The South Atlantic Quarterly The Tercentenary of Sir Walter Raleigh s Death Clarence Poe Editor of "The Progressive Farmer, Raleigh, N. C. For more than a year now, sons of the two great...

...Clarence H. Poe Copyright © 1909 by Duke University Press 1909 Volume VIII. JANUARY, 1909. Number 1. The South Atlantic Quarterly. Builders of an Agricultural Commonwealth By Clarence H. Poe Editor of The Progressive Farmer, Raleigh, N. C. The uplift of an agricultural State what men...

...Clarence Poe Copyright © 1914 by Duke University Press 1914 Volume XIII JULY, 1914 Number 3 The South Atlantic Quarterly Rural Land Segregation Between Whites and Negroes: A Reply to Mr. Stephenson Clarence Poe Editor of The Progressive Farmer In the April issue of the South Atlantic...

...Clarence H. Poe Copyright © 1905 by Duke University Press 1905 Two Books on the Negro By Clarence H. Poe, Editor The Progressive Farmer, Raleigh. N. C. Two recently published books on the race question deserve special consideration. One of these is Thomas Nelson Page s The Negro...

...Clarence H. Poe Copyright © 1906 by Duke University Press 1906 Enormous Wastes in Our Cotton Farming* By Clarence H. Poe, Editor of The Progressive Farmer, Raleigh, N. C. A few weeks ago the writer obtained from Chief Statisti­ cian 0. P. Austin, of the United States Department of Agri­...

...Hallie Farmer Copyright © 1930 by Duke University Press 1930 THE ECONOMIC BACKGROUND OF SOUTHERN POPULISM HALLIE FARMER Alabama College I THE SOUTH emerged from the chaos of the Civil War only to fall into the deeper confusion of reconstruction. It took ten years to restore white rule. When...

... character of debt makes for the mixed-class composition of many debtors’ movements in history. The second part of the article examines the rise and decline of the El Barzón movement. It went from being an obscure farmers’ organization in 1993 to a nationwide political-economic force in Mexico in just three...

... usual friendly manner. Overcharging and exploiting the Gentile farmers of your section, eh ? I was a farmer myself, Herr Scharfiihrer, the prisoner said, calmly. What a farmer? the SS guard mocked. Have you ever seen a Jewish farmer? My father was a farmer, too, the young man added. So were...

... the cotton farms around Raleigh denounce the Bankhead Act as a vicious and undemocratic regimentation of farmers. I, on the other hand, who am a cotton grower myself, think it probably represents the exten­ sion of democracy to new frontiers. Very new and very dangerous frontiers, perhaps, but yet...

...), pp. 396-429. 2 See Woodward, Origins of the New South; and Theodore Saloutos, Farmer Movements in the South, 1865-1933 (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1960). 28 The South Atlantic Quarterly Carolina) which tried to solve social as well as economic problems; that Clarence Poe, the outstanding spokesman...