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 vii
... Growing Knowledge : The Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station 114 Reaching the Farmers 135 5. THE NEW FARMING Drive for Production Dairying : Progressive Exemplar Capital and Credit 147 148 163 170 6. REFORMING FATE 177 Farmers and ...
... Growing Knowledge : The Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station 114 Reaching the Farmers 135 5. THE NEW FARMING Drive for Production Dairying : Progressive Exemplar Capital and Credit 147 148 163 170 6. REFORMING FATE 177 Farmers and ...
Page ix
... grow and where a Civil War artifact occasionally turns up in the flower bed had much to do with inspiring this book . So did the change that farming in Virginia faces today . But these feelings never would have materialized without the ...
... grow and where a Civil War artifact occasionally turns up in the flower bed had much to do with inspiring this book . So did the change that farming in Virginia faces today . But these feelings never would have materialized without the ...
Page xiv
... grow green with promise . Then , the forlorn roads , deep in mud . and the surrounding air of failure , which was as inescapable as drought , combined with the cutworm , the locust , and the tobacco fly against the human invaders ; and ...
... grow green with promise . Then , the forlorn roads , deep in mud . and the surrounding air of failure , which was as inescapable as drought , combined with the cutworm , the locust , and the tobacco fly against the human invaders ; and ...
Page xvii
... growing in the Tidewater counties , and the Southside's cotton and tobacco , farming in Virginia in many respects resembled a scaled , down model of agriculture in the nation at large . To that extent , the theme applies more broadly ...
... growing in the Tidewater counties , and the Southside's cotton and tobacco , farming in Virginia in many respects resembled a scaled , down model of agriculture in the nation at large . To that extent , the theme applies more broadly ...
Page xx
... growing season than the northern neck , But the milder climate also meant that the oxidation of organic material in the soil and the growth of harmful microorganisms and insects went on nearly year round . Also , because of the area's ...
... growing season than the northern neck , But the milder climate also meant that the oxidation of organic material in the soil and the growth of harmful microorganisms and insects went on nearly year round . Also , because of the area's ...
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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...