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Century Farm
Author | : Cris Peterson |
Publisher | : Boyds Mills Press |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2016-11-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1629797839 |
The Peterson family farm is one hundred years old and about to enter a new century. Here, in wonderful family anecdotes, the author shares the story of the farm as it grew from a barn and house and granary in the 1890s to a thriving dairy farm in the 1990s. There has been plenty of hard work--sawing down the trees to erect the first buildings, the endless cycle of planting and harvesting, chopping firewood to keep the house warm--but there has also been golf practice on the pasture land, Sunday drives in the family car, and cross-country skiing in the meadows. Over the past hundred years many things on the farm have changed, but many things have stayed the same. There is still one family working together to make the farm a viable business. There is still one kitchen where cookies are baked and meals are cooked to feed family and friends and those who help on the farm. Filled with photos selected from a century's worth of family albums as well as dramatic shots from recent years, this NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book provides a glimpse into the past and the future of one American family farm.
Farm Life
Author | : Frank Smoot |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Farm Life tells the story of Chippewa Valley dairying and ties it to larger national and historical issues, bringing this history into the new millenium. Highly illustrated with compelling photos, Farm Life lets the voices of farm families come through in hundreds of direct quotations. Distributed for the Chippewa Valley Museum, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Century Farm
Author | : Cris Peterson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Farm life |
ISBN | : |
The story of a 100-year-old family farm in Wisconsin is told in photographs and in anecdotes about the three generations of Petersons who have owned and farmed the land.
Farm Families and Change in 20th-Century America
Author | : Mark Friedberger |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2021-10-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0813186110 |
The farm family is a unique institution, perhaps the last remnant, in an increasingly complex world, of a simpler social order in which economic and domestic activities were inextricably bound together. In the past few years, however, American agriculture has suffered huge losses, and family farmers have seen their way of life threatened by economic forces beyond their control. At a time when agriculture is at a crossroads, this study provides a needed historical perspective on the problems family farmers have faced since the turn of the century. For analysis Mark Friedberger has chosen two areas where agriculture retains major importance in the local economy—Iowa and California's Central Valley. Within these two geographic areas he examines farm families with regard to their farming methods, land tenure, inheritance practices, use of credit, and community relations. These aspects are then compared to assess change in rural society and to discern trends in the future of family farming. Despite the shocks endured by family farmers at various times in this century, Friedberger finds that some families have remained remarkably resilient. These families evinced a strong commitment to their way of life. They sought to own their land; they maintained inheritance from one generation to the next; they were generally conservative in using credit; and they preferred to diversify their enterprises. These practices served them well in good times and in bad. Innovative in its use of a combination of documentary sources, quantitative methods, and direct observation, this study makes an important contribution to the history of American agriculture and of American society.
Farming the Cutover
Author | : Robert J. Gough |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Farming the Cutover describes the visions and accomplishments of these settlers from their perspective. People of the cutover managed to forge lives relatively independent of market pressures, and for this they were characterized as backward by outsiders and their part of the state was seen as a hideout for organized crime figures. State and federal planners, county agents, and agriculture professors eventually determined that the cutover could be engineered by professional and academic expertise into a Progressive social model and the lives of its inhabitants improved. By 1940, they had begun to implement public policies that discouraged farming, and they eventually decided that the region should be depopulated and the forests replanted. By exploring the history of an eighteen-county region, Robert Gough illustrates the travails of farming in marginal areas. He juxtaposes the social history of the farmers with the opinions and programs of the experts who sought to improve the region. Significantly, what occurred in the Wisconsin cutover anticipated the sweeping changes that transformed American agriculture after World War II.
Wisconsin Farmers Union, 1930-1955
Author | : Wisconsin Farmers Union |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Agricultural laborers |
ISBN | : |
Wisconsin Blue Book, 1950
Author | : |
Publisher | : Legislative Reference Bureau |
Total Pages | : 820 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Wisconsin |
ISBN | : |
On a Wisconsin Family Farm: Historic Tales of Character, Community and Culture
Author | : Corey A. Geiger |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1467145289 |
On a Wisconsin Family Farm flings the barn doors wide open to a cast of characters that built America's Dairyland. A maternal maverick, Anna Satorie, went against cultural-norms and became the sole owner of her family's homestead in 1905. The next year, Anna married John Burich, and the couple went about building a thrifty family farm. Pioneer life was fraught with trials and tribulations as polio and tuberculosis claimed loved ones and the fabricated death of a bootlegging brother turned gangsters away from the farm. Neighbors pitched in as members of the immigrant class aided one another to construct farmsteads and support one another through unsanctioned bank loans, daring dynamite work and barn raisings. Leasing work aside, this community also threw parties met by the rooster's early-dawn crow. Corey Geiger, international agricultural journalist, pairs his rural roots and lively storytelling talents to capture six generations of local tales. Book jacket.