Kind of Fate: Agricultural Change in Virginia, 1861-1920Purdue University Press, 2002 - 256 pages A Kind Of Fate: Agricultural Change In Virginia, 1861-1920 surveys farming in Virginia through the experiences of Jacob Manning and his son James. We read about their individual struggles, the impact of the Civil War, contrasts between farming and country life, Jacob having to farm through the harsh times of the Civil War, his son James farming experiences during a post-war time of rising prosperity. Author Terry Sharrer (curator of health sciences at the Smithsonian Institutions, Washington, D.C.) focuses on the changes in agriculture and its shift from crop-focused to livestock-dominated farming. |
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Page xi
... north face : " Walter S , 1859-1862 ; Florine , 1860,1862 ; India , 1867,1871 ; Harry D. , 1874,1875 ; Maude , 1874,1877 , The children of J, H, and C, E, Man- ning , " If a single artifact can reflect a defining fact about everyday ...
... north face : " Walter S , 1859-1862 ; Florine , 1860,1862 ; India , 1867,1871 ; Harry D. , 1874,1875 ; Maude , 1874,1877 , The children of J, H, and C, E, Man- ning , " If a single artifact can reflect a defining fact about everyday ...
Page xix
... north , on the " necks , " as Tidewater people called the river peninsulas , the drainage pattern improved but erosion became worse , as rain , particularly from summertime thunderstorms , tore into the rela- tively soft ground ...
... north , on the " necks , " as Tidewater people called the river peninsulas , the drainage pattern improved but erosion became worse , as rain , particularly from summertime thunderstorms , tore into the rela- tively soft ground ...
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... north , and broadening to nearly two hundred miles along the North Carolina border — streams had the velocity to turn waterwheels , and so they did , Piedmont farmers raised wheat and the fall line towns grew as milling and flour ...
... north , and broadening to nearly two hundred miles along the North Carolina border — streams had the velocity to turn waterwheels , and so they did , Piedmont farmers raised wheat and the fall line towns grew as milling and flour ...
Page xxi
... north- ern counties seldom froze deeper than an inch or two in winter , in the south Piedmont , it often stayed above freezing all year long , allowing continuous oxidation . Red , colored fields , like those around Lynchburg , took ...
... north- ern counties seldom froze deeper than an inch or two in winter , in the south Piedmont , it often stayed above freezing all year long , allowing continuous oxidation . Red , colored fields , like those around Lynchburg , took ...
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... north and east . The New River , though , mean- dered north through six counties and then bent west to Kanawha and Ohio , eventually to wash into the Gulf of Mexico . The Great Valley of Virginia — actually , a composite of the ...
... north and east . The New River , though , mean- dered north through six counties and then bent west to Kanawha and Ohio , eventually to wash into the Gulf of Mexico . The Great Valley of Virginia — actually , a composite of the ...
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Page xiv - ... appeared to shrink into the "old fields," where scrub pine or oak succeeded broomsedge and sassafras as inevitably as autumn slipped into winter. Now and then a new start would be made. Some thrifty settler, a German Catholic, perhaps, who was trying his fortunes in a staunch Protestant community, would buy a mortgaged farm for a dollar an acre, and begin to experiment with suspicious, strange-smelling fertilizers. For a season or two his patch of ground would respond to the unusual treatment...