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  2. Rural American history - Wikipedia

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    Benedict, Murray R, Farm Policies of the United States, 1790-1950: A Study of Their Origins and Development (1953) online; Bidwell, Percy Wells, and John I. Falconer. History of Agriculture in the Northern United States 1620-1860 (1941) online; Bollinger, Holly. Outhouses (2005) online; Bowers, William L. The Country Life Movement in America ...

  3. History of agriculture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A history of agricultural policy : chronological outline ( U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library, 1992) online; Ardrey, Robert L, American agricultural implements: a review of invention and development in the agricultural implement industry of the United States (1894) online; a major comprehensive overview in 236 pages.

  4. New England Planters - Wikipedia

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    The movement of some 2,000 families from New England to Nova Scotia in the early 1760s was a small part of the much larger migration of the estimated 66,000 who moved to New York's Mohawk River Valley, to New Hampshire, and to what later became the states of Vermont and Maine. From 1760 to 1775, some 54 new towns were established in Vermont ...

  5. Prehistoric agriculture on the Great Plains - Wikipedia

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    Maize agriculture began on the Great Plains about 900 AD. Evidence of agriculture is found in all Central Plains complexes. Tribes periodically switched from emphasis on farming to hunting throughout their history during the Plains Village period (950-1850 AD), probably based on climatic fluctuations and the periodic abundance of bison. [2] /

  6. Plantation complexes in the Southern United States - Wikipedia

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    Found on some plantations in every Southern state, plantation schoolhouses served as a place for the hired tutor or governess to educate the planter's children, and sometimes even those of other planters in the area. [8] On most plantations, however, a room in the main house was sufficient for schooling, rather than a separate dedicated building.

  7. Plantations of New England - Wikipedia

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    Agricultural activity existed in New England before European settlers arrived in the region. By the time colonizers arrived, "Native American agriculture in southern New England had developed into a well-ordered system". [4] The majority of the civilian diet came from corn (maize), which was planted "in hills in clearings the Native cut in the ...

  8. Bird flu variant found in Nevada cows shows signs of ... - AOL

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    The strain had previously been found only in birds and people. Most bird flu infections in dairy cattle in the US have been the B3.13 variant, or what’s become known as the “cattle clade.”

  9. Planter class - Wikipedia

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    A painting by Agostino Brunias depicting two members of the planter class and their slave. The planter class, also referred to as the planter aristocracy, was a racial and socioeconomic caste which emerged in the Americas during European colonization in the early modern period.