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9780875803920

Industrializing the Corn Belt

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  • ISBN13:

    9780875803920

  • ISBN10:

    087580392X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-11-15
  • Publisher: Northern Illinois Univ Pr

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"Industrializing the Com Belt - based on farm records, cooperative extension reports, USDA publications, oral interviews, trade literature, and agricultural periodicals - offers a fresh look at an important period of revolutionary change in agriculture through the eyes of those who grew the crops, raised the livestock, implemented new technology, and ultimately made the decisions that transformed the nature of the family farm and the Midwestern landscape."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

J. L. Anderson teaches U.S. history at Mount Royal College, Calgary, Alberta.

Table of Contents

Insecticide - Time for Actionp. 15
Herbicide versus Weedy the Thiefp. 33
Fertilizer Gives the Land a Kickp. 51
Feeding Chemicalsp. 91
Push-button Farmingp. 107
Making Hay the Modern Wayp. 138
From Threshing Machine to Combinep. 152
From Corn Picker and Crib to Combine and Binp. 168
Notesp. 197
Bibliographyp. 223
Indexp. 233
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