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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Partial History of the Development of Grain Threshing Implements and Machines
Partial History of the Development of Grain Harvesting Equipment
Author: Partial History of the Development of Grain Harvesting Equipment
Author: Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Agricultural Chemistry and Engineering
Author: United States. Bureau of Agricultural Chemistry and EngineeringPublisher:
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Category : Agricultural chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Bull Threshers and Bindlestiffs
Author: Thomas D. IsernPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700631577
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Bull Threshers and Bindlestiffs is a panorama on a continental canvas: the Great Plains of North America, stretching from Texas to Alberta. Onto this surface the author lays the large features of regional practice in the harvesting and threshing of wheat during the days before the combined harvester—harvesting with binder and header, threshing with bull thresher and steam engine. Into the picture he places the key figures who accomplished the task of gathering the grain--the farm men and women, the custom threshermen, and the bindlestiffs, or itinerant laborers. Affectionately he sketches the small details of folklife that comprised the everyday work and culture of the wheat belt—building shocks, loading racks, constructing stacks, pitching bundles into the separator, hauling water to the engine, drinking deep from the crockery water jug. Bull Threshers and Bindlestiffs is a profusely illustrated study of a complex, vigorous regional culture concerned with the production of wheat—a culture that centered around the annual harvest and declined with the advent of the combine. This is an examination of the interaction of culture, environment, and technology with import for the fields of agricultural history and regional history. More than that, with its grassroots research, its descriptions of tools and customs, and its lavish illustrations, it is a re-creation of a proud phase of regional life previously captured only in yellowed albumen photographs.
Report of the Chief
Author: United States. Bureau of Agricultural and Industrial ChemistryPublisher:
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Category : Agricultural chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
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A Study of the Threshing of Wheat by Centrifugal Force
Author: Benson J. LampPublisher:
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Category : Harvesting machinery
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Threshing in the Midwest, 1820-1940
Author: J. Sanford RikoonPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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"In this study of the interaction between agricultural mechanization and rural culture, J. Sanford Rikoon focuses his analysis on grain threshing patterns in the Midwest from its early nineteenth-century beginnings--manual flailing and animal treading--to the adoption of the combined harvester-thresher between 1925 and 1945. The "golden age of threshing" began in the late nineteenth century, when steam engines and threshing machines became familiar sights on the rural harvest landscape. Rikoon considers the succession of threshing systems in terms of the relations between specific technologies, occupational practices, and the social organization of work"--Book jacket.
Sowing Modernity
Author: Peter D. McClellandPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801433269
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Contrary to those who regard the economic transformation of the West as a gradual process spanning centuries, Peter D. McClelland claims the initial transformation of American agriculture was an unmistakable revolution. He asks when a single crucial question was first directed persistently, pervasively, and systematically to farming practices: Is there a better way? McClelland surveys practices from crop rotation to livestock breeding, with a particular focus on the change in implements used to produce small grains. With wit and verve and an abundance of detail, he demonstrates that the first great surge in inventive activity in agronomy in the United States took place following the War of 1812, much of it in a fifteen-year period ending in 1830. Once questioning the status quo became the norm for producers on and off the farm, according to McClelland, the march to modernization was virtually assured. With the aid of more than 270 illustrations, many of them taken from contemporary sources, McClelland describes this stunning transformation in a manner rarely found in the agricultural literature. How primitive farming implements worked, what their defects were, and how they were initially redesigned are explained in a manner intelligible to the novice and yet offering analysis and information of special interest to the expert.
A Preliminary List of References for the History of Agricultural Science and Technology in the United States
Author: Carroll W. PursellPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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