Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The social history of American agriculture (1936) online; Schapsmeier, Edward L., and Frederick H. Encyclopedia of American Agricultural History (Greenwood, 1975) Schob, David E. Hired hands and plowboys: farm labor in the Midwest, 1815-60 (1975), pp. 173–249. Shannon, Fred A. The Farmer's Last Frontier: Agriculture, 1860–1897 (1945) online
A farmstead in Perry Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.. Agriculture is a major industry in the U.S. commonwealth of Pennsylvania. [1] As of the most recent United States Census of Agriculture conducted in 2017, there were 53,157 farms in Pennsylvania, covering an area of 7,278,668 acres (2,945,572 hectares) with an average size of 137 acres (55 hectares) per farm. [2]
Agricultural History Society: 143– 156. JSTOR 3740434. – statistical tables showing membership in the Grange and other farm organizations by date and state and region; Woods, Thomas A. (2002). Knights of the Plow: Oliver H. Kelley and the Origins of the Grange in Republican Ideology. Henry A Wallace Series on Agricultural History and Rural ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Governor Tom Wolf attending the Pennsylvania Farm Show, January 2017. The Pennsylvania Farm Show is an annual agricultural exposition celebrating Pennsylvania's agriculture industry, held every January at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex & Expo Center, located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Ray Douglas Hurt is an American agricultural historian, academic and author. He is a professor of history at Purdue University. [1]Hurt is known for his research on the Great Plains, Civil War, Native Americans, technology, and the American South, West, and Midwest, as well as the Green Revolution.
Railroad grain elevator facilities (2014) 110 or greater grain car 100 to 109 Less than 99 Announced facility (2014) Map of U.S. states in the Corn Belt The Corn Belt is a region of the Midwestern United States and part of the Southern United States that, since the 1850s, has dominated corn production in the United States.