The Literature of Soil Science

The Literature of Soil Science
Author: Peter McDonald
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 476
Release: 1994
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780801429217

A collection of 14 discussions of the past and present literature about soil science. The topics include a historical survey, bibliometrics, introduction into developing countries, societies and their publishing influence, information systems, core monographs, primary journals, maps, and other aspec

The World Almanac and Book of Facts

The World Almanac and Book of Facts
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1062
Release: 1913
Genre: Almanacs, American
ISBN:

Lists news events, population figures, and miscellaneous data of an historic, economic, scientific and social nature.

Cut-over Lands

Cut-over Lands
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 396
Release: 1918
Genre: Cutover lands
ISBN:

Devoted to the conversion of cut-over timber lands & to their most productive use for farming, stock raising, fruit growing & kindred purposes...

Tractor Wars

Tractor Wars
Author: Neil Dahlstrom
Publisher: BenBella Books
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2022-01-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1953295746

"Mr. Dahlstrom...has written a superb history of the tractor and this long-forgotten period of capitalism in U.S. agriculture. We now know the whole story of when farming, business and the free-market economy diverged, divided and conquered." —Wall Street Journal Discover the untold story of the “tractor wars,” the twenty-year period that introduced power farming—the most fundamental change in world agriculture in hundreds of years. Before John Deere, Ford, and International Harvester became icons of American business, they were competitors in a forgotten battle for the farm. From 1908-1928, against the backdrop of a world war and economic depression, these brands were engaged in a race to introduce the tractor and revolutionize farming. By the turn of the twentieth century, four million people had left rural America and moved to cities, leaving the nation’s farms shorthanded for the work of plowing, planting, cultivating, harvesting, and threshing. That’s why the introduction of the tractor is an innovation story as essential as man’s landing on the moon or the advent of the internet—after all, with the tractor, a shrinking farm population could still feed a growing world. But getting the tractor from the boardroom to the drafting table, then from factory and the farm, was a technological and competitive battle that until now, has never been fully told. A researcher, historian, and writer, Neil Dahlstrom has spent decades in the corporate archives at John Deere. In Tractor Wars, Dahlstrom offers an insider’s view of a story that entwines a myriad of brands and characters, stakes and plots: the Reverend Daniel Hartsough, a pastor turned tractor designer; Alexander Legge, the eventual president of International Harvester, a former cowboy who took on Henry Ford; William Butterworth and the oft-at-odds leadership team at John Deere that partnered with the enigmatic Ford but planned for his ultimate failure. With all the bitterness and drama of the race between Ford, Dodge, and General Motors, Tractor Wars is the untold story of industry stalwarts and disruptors, inventors, and administrators racing to invent modern agriculture—a power farming revolution that would usher in a whole new world.

Scientific Authority & Twentieth-century America

Scientific Authority & Twentieth-century America
Author: Ronald G. Walters
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801853906

In Scientific Authority and Twentieth-Century America Ronald G. Walters brings together a distinguished group of contributors to reflect - often critically - on scientific and medical claims to moral, social, and political authority.

Irrigation

Irrigation
Author: United States. Bureau of Agricultural Engineering
Publisher:
Total Pages: 650
Release: 1938
Genre: Irrigation
ISBN: