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 xiv
... tobacco fly against the human invaders ; and , where the brief har- vest had been , the perpetual broomsedge would wave.3 Broomsedge ( Andropogon virginicus ) , with thick tufts that made overgrown fields much harder to reclaim , was ...
... tobacco fly against the human invaders ; and , where the brief har- vest had been , the perpetual broomsedge would wave.3 Broomsedge ( Andropogon virginicus ) , with thick tufts that made overgrown fields much harder to reclaim , was ...
Page xvii
... tobacco , farming in Virginia in many respects resembled a scaled , down model of agriculture in the nation at large ... tobacco . In part , this is because other historians , notably Nannie May Tilley in The Bright Tobacco Industry ...
... tobacco , farming in Virginia in many respects resembled a scaled , down model of agriculture in the nation at large ... tobacco . In part , this is because other historians , notably Nannie May Tilley in The Bright Tobacco Industry ...
Page xx
... Tobacco was the crop that created a market , driven agriculture from the beginning , The Virginia Company was , in effect , an agribusiness venture , It only lasted until 1624 , but in its time , this firm built the tobacco and grain ...
... Tobacco was the crop that created a market , driven agriculture from the beginning , The Virginia Company was , in effect , an agribusiness venture , It only lasted until 1624 , but in its time , this firm built the tobacco and grain ...
Page xxi
... tobacco , while the northern Piedmont had circumstances better suited to grasses and grains.10 The Blue Ridge , like the fall line , marked the boundary between the Piedmont and the mountains and valleys to the west . In Paleozoic time ...
... tobacco , while the northern Piedmont had circumstances better suited to grasses and grains.10 The Blue Ridge , like the fall line , marked the boundary between the Piedmont and the mountains and valleys to the west . In Paleozoic time ...
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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...