Author: A. D. MilnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Uncle Sam's Farm Fence
Author: A. D. MilnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
A Peep at Uncle Sam's Farm, Workshop, Fisheries, &c
Author: Philip TocquePublisher: Boston : C.H. Peirce
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The Banker-farmer
Author: Wisconsin Farmers Union News
Author: The Final Frontiers, 1880-1930
Author: John OttoPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313002290
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
An examination of the settlement history of the alluvial bottomlands of the lower Mississippi Valley from 1880 to 1930, this study details how cotton-growers transformed the swamplands of northwestern Mississippi, northeastern Louisiana, northeastern Arkansas, and southern Missouri into cotton fields. Although these alluvial bottomlands contained the richest cotton soils in the American South, cotton-growers in the Southern bottomlands faced a host of environmental problems, including dense forests, seasonal floods, water-logged soils, poor transportation, malarial fevers and insect pests. This interdisciplinary approach uses primary and secondary sources from the fields of history, geography, sociology, agronomy, and ecology to fill an important gap in our knowledge of American environmental history. Requiring laborers to clear and cultivate their lands, cotton-growers recruited black and white workers from the upland areas of the Southern states. Growers also supported the levee districts which built imposing embankments to hold the floodwaters in check. Canals and drainage ditches were constructed to drain the lands, and local railways and graveled railways soon ended the area's isolation. Finally, quinine and patent medicines would offer some relief from the malarial fevers that afflicted bottomland residents, and commercial poisons would combat the local pests that attacked the cotton plants, including the boll weevils which arrived in the early twentieth century.
Farm Implement News
Author: Uncle Sam and the Farmer
Author: Samuel EverettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural administration
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Arkansas: A History
Author: Harry S. AshmorePublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393243621
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
South and West, delta and mountains, black and white, rich and poor, Arkansas is a complex state whose history has not been widely understood. In this graceful and good-humored account, author Harry S. Ashmore takes us on an instructive journey over the state's fascinating terrain and offers important new insights into Arkansas's historical character. Arkansas lies west of the Mississippi River and has shared much with that vast western region. Yet it also joined the Confederate States of America and has prided itself on its southern heritage. In the early nineteenth century, Arkansas was little removed from its wilderness beginnings, but the Indians who first made its hills and forests their home soon learned that the white man's frontier meant their demise. Later in the antebellum era, the young state searched for a sense of identity, covering with a patina of gentility the energy and violence that was characteristic of frontier America. The Civil War and Reconstruction brought both suffering and freedom and for the future left a mixed legacy. In the last hundred years, Arkansans struggled with old problems in a new context--race, cotton, sharecropping, and a colonial economy--and they discovered anew the need for hard work and good faith. On rich delta plantations and spare upland farms, in small towns and in cities like Little Rock and Fort Smith, the plain people of this state applied themselves to the pursuit of prosperity and hoped for a richer near future for their children.
Hand-Book and Directory of Napa, Lake, Sonoma and Mendocino Counties
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382509164
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
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