Author: James Jerome Hill
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780365857914
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Excerpt from History of Agriculture in Minnesota In 1859 and 1860, all the grain was handled in seamless sacks; at first they started at 125 bags to a carload then they got up to 140, and, as long as it moved in sacks, 140 sacks was the limit, a little over eight tons to the carload. Later they did without the sacks by building bulk barges, lined on the inside and with cargo boxes with covers over them to keep the grain dry; and in that way it was transported in bulk. Milwaukee was practically the market for all our grain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
History of Agriculture in Minnesota (Classic Reprint)
Author: James Jerome Hill
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780365857914
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Excerpt from History of Agriculture in Minnesota In 1859 and 1860, all the grain was handled in seamless sacks; at first they started at 125 bags to a carload then they got up to 140, and, as long as it moved in sacks, 140 sacks was the limit, a little over eight tons to the carload. Later they did without the sacks by building bulk barges, lined on the inside and with cargo boxes with covers over them to keep the grain dry; and in that way it was transported in bulk. Milwaukee was practically the market for all our grain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780365857914
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Excerpt from History of Agriculture in Minnesota In 1859 and 1860, all the grain was handled in seamless sacks; at first they started at 125 bags to a carload then they got up to 140, and, as long as it moved in sacks, 140 sacks was the limit, a little over eight tons to the carload. Later they did without the sacks by building bulk barges, lined on the inside and with cargo boxes with covers over them to keep the grain dry; and in that way it was transported in bulk. Milwaukee was practically the market for all our grain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Development of American Agriculture
Author: Willard W. Cochrane
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452900537
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452900537
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE IN MINNESOTA
Author: JAMES JEROME. HILL
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033533222
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033533222
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden
Author: Gilbert L. Wilson
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 0873516605
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
This that I now tell is as I saw my mothers do, or did myself, when I was young. My mothers were industrious women, and our family had always good crops; and I will tell now how the women of my father's family cared for their fields, as I saw them, and helped them. --Buffalo Bird Woman
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 0873516605
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
This that I now tell is as I saw my mothers do, or did myself, when I was young. My mothers were industrious women, and our family had always good crops; and I will tell now how the women of my father's family cared for their fields, as I saw them, and helped them. --Buffalo Bird Woman
History of Agriculture in Minnesota
Author: James Jerome Hill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Vegetables and Fruits: Historical supplement
Turn Here Sweet Corn
Author: Atina Diffley
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452939179
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
When the hail starts to fall, Atina Diffley doesn’t compare it to golf balls. She’s a farmer. It’s “as big as a B-size potato.” As her bombarded land turns white, she and her husband Martin huddle under a blanket and reminisce: the one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds; the eleven-inch rainfall (“that broccoli turned out gorgeous”); the hail disaster of 1977. The romance of farming washed away a long time ago, but the love? Never. In telling her story of working the land, coaxing good food from the fertile soil, Atina Diffley reminds us of an ultimate truth: we live in relationships—with the earth, plants and animals, families and communities. A memoir of making these essential relationships work in the face of challenges as natural as weather and as unnatural as corporate politics, her book is a firsthand history of getting in at the “ground level” of organic farming. One of the first certified organic produce farms in the Midwest, the Diffleys’ Gardens of Eagan helped to usher in a new kind of green revolution in the heart of America’s farmland, supplying their roadside stand and a growing number of local food co-ops. This is a story of a world transformed—and reclaimed—one square acre at a time. And yet, after surviving punishing storms and the devastating loss of fifth-generation Diffley family land to suburban development, the Diffleys faced the ultimate challenge: the threat of eminent domain for a crude oil pipeline proposed by one of the largest privately owned companies in the world, notorious polluters Koch Industries. As Atina Diffley tells her David-versus-Goliath tale, she gives readers everything from expert instruction in organic farming to an entrepreneur’s manual on how to grow a business to a legal thriller about battling corporate arrogance to a love story about a single mother falling for a good, big-hearted man.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452939179
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
When the hail starts to fall, Atina Diffley doesn’t compare it to golf balls. She’s a farmer. It’s “as big as a B-size potato.” As her bombarded land turns white, she and her husband Martin huddle under a blanket and reminisce: the one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds; the eleven-inch rainfall (“that broccoli turned out gorgeous”); the hail disaster of 1977. The romance of farming washed away a long time ago, but the love? Never. In telling her story of working the land, coaxing good food from the fertile soil, Atina Diffley reminds us of an ultimate truth: we live in relationships—with the earth, plants and animals, families and communities. A memoir of making these essential relationships work in the face of challenges as natural as weather and as unnatural as corporate politics, her book is a firsthand history of getting in at the “ground level” of organic farming. One of the first certified organic produce farms in the Midwest, the Diffleys’ Gardens of Eagan helped to usher in a new kind of green revolution in the heart of America’s farmland, supplying their roadside stand and a growing number of local food co-ops. This is a story of a world transformed—and reclaimed—one square acre at a time. And yet, after surviving punishing storms and the devastating loss of fifth-generation Diffley family land to suburban development, the Diffleys faced the ultimate challenge: the threat of eminent domain for a crude oil pipeline proposed by one of the largest privately owned companies in the world, notorious polluters Koch Industries. As Atina Diffley tells her David-versus-Goliath tale, she gives readers everything from expert instruction in organic farming to an entrepreneur’s manual on how to grow a business to a legal thriller about battling corporate arrogance to a love story about a single mother falling for a good, big-hearted man.
Wisconsin
Author: Robert Carrington Nesbit
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299108045
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Robert Nesbit's classic single-volume history of Wisconsin was expanded by Wisconsin State Historian William F. Thompson to include the period from 1940 to the late 1980s, along with updated bibliographies and appendices. First paperback edition.
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299108045
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Robert Nesbit's classic single-volume history of Wisconsin was expanded by Wisconsin State Historian William F. Thompson to include the period from 1940 to the late 1980s, along with updated bibliographies and appendices. First paperback edition.
Vegetables and Fruits
Knights of Plow
Author: Oliver H. Kelley
Publisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 9781557532633
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Knights of the Plow analyzes the ideological origins of the Grange. It traces the incubation adn the birth of a radical farm organization during the economic and social upheaval in rural America in the 1850s and 1860s, primarily through the life and ideas of Grange founder Oliver Kelley and his early Minnesota and Illinois Associates. Based on intensive research in newspapers and unpublished archival sources and on the material culture and symbolism of Grange ritual, this book depicts the tumultuous early years of the Grange from the perspective of its most important organizer.
Publisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 9781557532633
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Knights of the Plow analyzes the ideological origins of the Grange. It traces the incubation adn the birth of a radical farm organization during the economic and social upheaval in rural America in the 1850s and 1860s, primarily through the life and ideas of Grange founder Oliver Kelley and his early Minnesota and Illinois Associates. Based on intensive research in newspapers and unpublished archival sources and on the material culture and symbolism of Grange ritual, this book depicts the tumultuous early years of the Grange from the perspective of its most important organizer.