Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The Farm Journal and Progressive Farmer
Author: Southern Agriculturist
Author: Leonidas LaFayette Polk, Agrarian Crusader
Author: Stuart NoblinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
This is the story of Leonidas Polk, whose name was destined to become a national byword. In 1889 he was elected president of the Farmers' Alliance, the largest agricultural organization in American history. The agrarian reforms that Polk had championed led to the agrarian crusdae" and the New Deal. Originally published in 1949. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Farmers Unite!
Author: Lindsay H. MetcalfPublisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 1684379083
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
In the late 1970s, grain prices had tanked, farm auction notices filled newspapers, and people had forgotten that food didn't grow in grocery stores. So, on February 5, 1979, thousands of tractors from all parts of the US flooded Washington, DC, in protest. Author Lindsay H. Metcalf, a journalist who grew up on a family farm, shares this rarely told story of grassroots perseverance and economic justice. In 1979, US farmers traveled to Washington, DC to protest unfair prices for their products. Farmers wanted fair prices for their products and demanded action from Congress. After police corralled the tractors on the National Mall, the farmers and their tractors stayed through a snowstorm and dug out the city. Americans were now convinced they needed farmers, but the law took longer. Boldly told and highlighted with stunning archival images, this is the story of the struggle and triumph of the American farmer that still resonates today.
List of the Agricultural Periodicals of the United States and Canada Published During the Century July 1810 to July 1910
Author: Emma Beatrice HawksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This list of agricultural periodicals of the United States and Canada does not represent a complete list.
The Farmer and Mechanic
Author: William Holt StarrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Miscellaneous Publication
Author: Up from the Mudsills of Hell
Author: Connie L. LesterPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 082032762X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Up from the Mudsills of Hell analyzes agrarian activism in Tennessee from the 1870s to 1915 within the context of farmers’ lives, community institutions, and familial and communal networks. Locating the origins of the agrarian movements in the state’s late antebellum and post-Civil War farm economy, Connie Lester traces the development of rural reform from the cooperative efforts of the Grange, the Agricultural Wheel, and the Farmers’ Alliance through the insurgency of the People’s Party and the emerging rural bureaucracy of the Cooperative Extension Service and the Tennessee Department of Agriculture. Lester ties together a rich and often contradictory history of cooperativism, prohibition, disfranchisement, labor conflicts, and third-party politics to show that Tennessee agrarianism was more complex and threatening to the established political and economic order than previously recognized. As farmers reached across gender, racial, and political boundaries to create a mass movement, they shifted the ground under the monoliths of southern life. Once the Democratic Party had destroyed the insurgency, farmers responded in both traditional and progressive ways. Some turned inward, focusing on a localism that promoted--sometimes through violence--rigid adherence to established social boundaries. Others, however, organized into the Farmers’ Union, whose membership infiltrated the Tennessee Department of Agriculture and the Cooperative Extension Service. Acting through these bureaucracies, Tennessee agrarian leaders exerted an important influence over the development of agricultural legislation for the twentieth century. Up from the Mudsills of Hell not only provides an important reassessment of agrarian reform and radicalism in Tennessee, but also links this Upper South state into the broader sweep of southern and American farm movements emerging in the late nineteenth century.
The Pennsylvania Farm Journal Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture and Rural Economy
Author: The Farm Family Business
Author: Ruth GassonPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Farming as it is practised in market industrialized countries is predominantly a family business. This book argues that the nature of the farm business cannot be properly understood without reference to the family that operates it. Examples are taken from the UK, USA, Europe and Australasia.