Farmer Discontent, 1865-1900Vernon Rosco Carstensen Wiley, 1974 - 184 pages |
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... farms . The term farm was sufficiently elastic to embrace a rock - strewn hillside farm in Vermont about to be abandoned , a three- or four - acre cotton patch held by an Arkansas sharecrop- per , a full section ( 640 acres ) corn - hog ...
... farms . The term farm was sufficiently elastic to embrace a rock - strewn hillside farm in Vermont about to be abandoned , a three- or four - acre cotton patch held by an Arkansas sharecrop- per , a full section ( 640 acres ) corn - hog ...
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... farming benefited equally from the advances in ma- chinery . Producers of cotton and tobacco shared much less in the improvement and invention of tools and machines than did prod- ucers of wheat and corn . The striking advances in farm ...
... farming benefited equally from the advances in ma- chinery . Producers of cotton and tobacco shared much less in the improvement and invention of tools and machines than did prod- ucers of wheat and corn . The striking advances in farm ...
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... farming areas . Thus in the years that the number of farmers and farms in- creased most rapidly , the farmers ' place in the vast economic scheme of things changed greatly and was greatly diminished . During this period the farm labor ...
... farming areas . Thus in the years that the number of farmers and farms in- creased most rapidly , the farmers ' place in the vast economic scheme of things changed greatly and was greatly diminished . During this period the farm labor ...
Contents
Part One GROWTH AND CHANGE IN AMERICAN | 1 |
Part Two THE GRANGER MOVEMENT 18651880 | 17 |
6 The Declaration of Purposes of the Patrons of Hus | 40 |
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