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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... began adult life on the eve of the Civil War and the other that reached that same point in life about the turn of the century . This memoir told of Captain Manning's last battle , in which Manning was wounded within sight of what is now ...
... began adult life on the eve of the Civil War and the other that reached that same point in life about the turn of the century . This memoir told of Captain Manning's last battle , in which Manning was wounded within sight of what is now ...
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... began a long procession that in succeeding years included wagonloads of the Confederate dead from Antietam and Gettysburg . Later in the century , old soldiers were laid to rest in marked graves near the mass plot of their unidentified ...
... began a long procession that in succeeding years included wagonloads of the Confederate dead from Antietam and Gettysburg . Later in the century , old soldiers were laid to rest in marked graves near the mass plot of their unidentified ...
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... began adult life on the eve of the Civil War , and the other that reached the same point about the turn of the century , Possibly , no two succeeding generations have been more divergent , the former ending a continuity that dated from ...
... began adult life on the eve of the Civil War , and the other that reached the same point about the turn of the century , Possibly , no two succeeding generations have been more divergent , the former ending a continuity that dated from ...
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... began to control plant diseases and livestock plagues . Research in breeding and nutrition also contributed to a new focus on " health " as the principal concern of agricultural science . This took the place of a soil , centered ...
... began to control plant diseases and livestock plagues . Research in breeding and nutrition also contributed to a new focus on " health " as the principal concern of agricultural science . This took the place of a soil , centered ...
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... began writing about Virginia's soil problems in the 1830s , rightly supposed " the damage caused ... by the washing away of soil , has been much greater than all the exhaustion by the growth of crops , " Tidewater country had enough ...
... began writing about Virginia's soil problems in the 1830s , rightly supposed " the damage caused ... by the washing away of soil , has been much greater than all the exhaustion by the growth of crops , " Tidewater country had enough ...
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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...