Author: Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1094
Book Description
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1094
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Publications Catalog of the U.S. Department of Commerce
Author: United States. Department of Commerce. Office of PublicationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
1978 Census of Agriculture
Author: United States. Bureau of the CensusPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Publications
Author: United States. Department of CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Guide to U.S. Government Statistics
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
A directory of U.S. government statistics publications by issuing agency. Entries include GPO stock number, LC and Dewey classification, OCLC and ISSN numbers, and sometimes a description. Includes geographic index.
Farm Production Expenditures for ...
Author: Mima Mounds
Author: Jennifer L. Horwath BurnhamPublisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813724902
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Papers mostly from Geological Society of America Annual Meetings and field trips held in Houston, Texas, October 4-9, 2008.
Soybean Stocks
Author: Delta Empire
Author: Jeannie WhaynePublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 080713855X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South Jeannie Whayne employs the fascinating history of a powerful plantation owner in the Arkansas delta to recount the evolution of southern agriculture from the late nineteenth century through World War II. After his father’s death in 1870, Robert E. “Lee” Wilson inherited 400 acres of land in Mississippi County, Arkansas. Over his lifetime, he transformed that inheritance into a 50,000-acre lumber operation and cotton plantation. Early on, Wilson saw an opportunity in the swampy local terrain, which sold for as little as fifty cents an acre, to satisfy an expanding national market for Arkansas forest reserves. He also led the fundamental transformation of the landscape, involving the drainage of tens of thousands of acres of land, in order to create the vast agricultural empire he envisioned. A consummate manager, Wilson employed the tenancy and sharecropping system to his advantage while earning a reputation for fair treatment of laborers, a reputation—Whayne suggests—not entirely deserved. He cultivated a cadre of relatives and employees from whom he expected absolute devotion. Leveraging every asset during his life and often deeply in debt, Wilson saved his company from bankruptcy several times, leaving it to the next generation to successfully steer the business through the challenges of the 1930s and World War II. Delta Empire traces the transition from the labor-intensive sharecropping and tenancy system to the capital-intensive neo-plantations of the post–World War II era to the portfolio plantation model. Through Wilson’s story Whayne provides a compelling case study of strategic innovation and the changing economy of the South in the late nineteenth century.