Author: James Henry SalisburyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corn
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
History and Chemical Investigation of Maize, Or Indian Corn
Author: James Henry SalisburyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corn
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Journal of Agricultural Research
Author: Report
Author: New York State MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Museums
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
"These reports are made up of the reports of the director, geologist, paleontologist, botanist and entomologist, and museum Bulletins and Memoirs, issued as advance sections of the reports." N.Y. State Museum. Bulletin 66, p. 241.
New York State Education Department Bulletin
Author: Bulletin
Author: United States. Dept. of Agriculture. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Shucks, Shocks, and Hominy Blocks
Author: Nicholas P. HardemanPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807124246
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
History is often measured by records of great leaders and events. Nicholas P. Hardeman convinces us that American history can be measured but the shaping force of a quiet monarch—corn. In fact, corn was more than king, it was a way of life, and Hardeman enthusiastically demonstrates that in order to understand the settling and development of America we must know about corn and its influence. Perhaps no volume has come closer to the grass roots of pre-twentieth century America. The history of American worship of property, love of the land, and the work ethic has its source in this country’s discovery of the values of corn. When Hardeman speaks of values, he emphasizes the human as equal to the economic values. He describes corn growing in early America from clearing the land through planting, cultivating, and harvesting, as it was done on the single-family farm, once the mainstay of American agriculture. He talks about the problems and the hard work of corn growing that led to an explosion of agricultural innovation, mostly American in origin, in the nineteenth century. The author gives his attention as well to corn’s ancestry and the role of the Indians in developing all six major varieties of corn. He discusses in detail the many uses of corn as food and drink and its scores of nonfood applications. Overall, Hardeman casts a glow on the “picturesque, symmetrical, checkered cornfields” of a time past. Corn was more than a commodity to the pioneer. It was a social phenomenon during every phase of its culture and especially in the husking bee, the most popular event of the entire pioneer era. Corn was integral to nearly all American culture—our language, literature, art, and mythology. “Frontiers have been erased . . . but in the subconscious of our cultural undergirding, they are with us yet—those phantom shocks in measured rows, the clamorous birds spiraling on set wings to waiting grain fields below, the rhythmic thudding of hominy blocks, the creaking of wheels and crackling of corncob fires.”
New Genesee Farmer and Gardener's Journal
Author: Agricultural Economics Bibliography
Author: United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin: Catalogue
Author: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Includes titles on all subjects, some in foreign languages, later incorporated into Memorial Library.