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A Revolution Down on the Farm: The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929 (2009) excerpt and text search; Dahlstrom, Neil. Tractor Wars - John Deere, Henry Ford, International Harvester, and the Birth of Modern Agriculture (2022) Dean, Virgil W. An Opportunity Lost: The Truman Administration and the Farm Policy Debate.
[85] [86] 1900-1914 was a golden age that rural spokesmen used as the ideal standard for the "doctrine of parity" that shaped federal policy for the rest of the 20th century. [87] [88] After taking inflation into account, the gross farm income doubled from 1900 to 1920, and average annual income (after inflation) rose 40%. [89] [90]
The country life movement was an early 20th century American social movement ... The Country Life Movement in America, 1900-1920 ... Midwestern Farm Newspapers ...
Cattle drives were a major economic activity in the 19th and early 20th century American West, particularly between 1850s and 1910s. In this period, 27 million cattle were driven from Texas to railheads in Kansas, for shipment to stockyards in St. Louis and points east, and direct to Chicago. The long distances covered, the need for periodic ...
Because by the early 1900s much of the prime low-lying alluvial land along rivers had been homesteaded, the Enlarged Homestead Act was passed in 1909. To enable dryland farming , it increased the number of acres for a homestead to 320 acres (130 ha) given to farmers who accepted more marginal lands (especially in the Great Plains ), which could ...
In 1920, 24% (218,612) of farms in the nation were Black-operated, less than 1% (2,026) were managed by Black people, and 76% (705,070) of Black farm operators were tenants. [22] The cotton industry in the United States hit a crisis in the early 1920s.
Famed photographer Lewis Hine is best known for his documentation of child labor and photographs of the Empire State Building. His photos of child workers helped expose the hazardous conditions ...
The Grange grew remarkably during the early years: at its peak, its membership rose to 1.5 million. The causes of its growth were much broader than just the financial crisis of 1873; a high tariff, railway freight rates and other grievances were mingled with agricultural troubles like the fall of wheat prices and the increase of mortgages. [1] [4]