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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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The Georgia Agriculturist
Author: History of Georgia Agriculture, 1732-1860
Author: James C. BonnerPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820335002
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Published in 1964, A History of Georgia Agriculture describes the early land and labor systems in the state. Agriculture came to Georgia with the first settlers and was largely directed toward the economic self-sufficiency of the British Empire. James C. Bonner's portrayal of the colonial cattle industry is prescient of the later open-range West. He also clearly shows how shortages of horses and implements, poor plowing techniques, and a lack of skill in tool mechanics spawned the cotton-slaves-mules trilogy of antebellum agriculture, which in turn led to land exhaustion and eventual emigration. By the 1850s the general southern desire for economic independence promoted diversification and such scientific farming techniques as crop rotation, contour plowing, and fertilization. Planting of pasture forage to improve livestock and hold soil was advocated and the teaching of agriculture in public schools was promoted. Contemporary descriptions of individual farms and plantations are interspersed to give a picture of day to day farming. Bonner presents a picture of the average Southern farmer of 1850 which is neither that of a landless hireling nor of the traditional planter, but of a practical man trying to make a living.
A Century of Georgia Agriculture, 1850-1950
Author: Willard RangePublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820335517
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Published in 1954, this survey of Georgia agriculture is chronologically divided into three sections. “The End of the Golden Age, 1850–1865,” describes the last decade of antebellum agriculture before the overthrow of the plantation system. “The Long Depression, 1865–1900,” tells of the search for new ways to restore prosperity to Georgia's struggling agricultural system. And “The Revolutionary New Century, 1900–1950,” illustrates how agriculture underwent rapid development due to mechanization, diversifi cation, and application of scientific methods. Range concludes each section with his interpretations, emphasizing the impossibility of separating politics and culture in an economy based predominantly on agriculture, as much of the south was during this century.
Georgia's Agricultural Resources
Author: Georgia. Department of AgriculturePublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Publications of the Georgia State Department of Agriculture
Author: Georgia. Department of AgriculturePublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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A History of Georgia Agriculture, 1732-1860
Author: James Calvin BonnerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780820300917
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Georgia Farmers' Strike, The: The American Agricultural Movement vs. Jimmy Carter
Author: Lee LancasterPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467154253
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Author Lee Lancaster retraces the movement of a remarkable time in our nation's agricultural history. In 1976, America sent a peanut farmer from Plains to Washington, D.C. Farmers throughout the nation, especially in Georgia, had high hopes for President Jimmy Carter, but those dreams vanished when he seemingly disregarded their problems--historic drought and embarrassing commodity prices. Peach State farmers took to the streets, slow rolling a tractorcade on I-75 toward Atlanta. The result was the largest ever farmer-led demonstration in the United States. The farmers pledged not to sell, plant or buy anything until "100% parity" was obtained. The farmers eventually steered their tractorcade to D.C., trying to prevent the foreclosure of dozens of farms with help from an armed group in Middle Georgia and a real estate tycoon from New York who would become the forty-fifth president.
The Georgia Peach
Author: William Thomas OkiePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316817709
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Imprinted on license plates, plastered on billboards, stamped on the tail side of the state quarter, and inscribed on the state map, the peach is easily Georgia's most visible symbol. Yet Prunus persica itself is surprisingly rare in Georgia, and it has never been central to the southern agricultural economy. Why, then, have southerners - and Georgians in particular - clung to the fruit? The Georgia Peach: Culture, Agriculture, and Environment in the American South shows that the peach emerged as a viable commodity at a moment when the South was desperate for a reputation makeover. This agricultural success made the fruit an enduring cultural icon despite the increasing difficulties of growing it. A delectable contribution to the renaissance in food writing, The Georgia Peach will be of great interest to connoisseurs of food, southern, environmental, rural, and agricultural history.
Publications of the Georgia State Department of Agriculture For the Year 1894 (Vol. 20).
Author: Georgia. Department of AgriculturePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Publications of the Georgia State Department of Agriculture
Author: Georgia. Department of AgriculturePublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 371
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