Author: United States. Department of Agriculture
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 960
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Report of the Secretary of Agriculture
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 960
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 960
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List of Publications of the Bureau of Entomology
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Category : Entomology
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Category : Entomology
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Circular
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Category : Insect pests
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Category : Insect pests
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Circular
Author: United States. Bureau of Entomology
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Category : Insects
Languages : en
Pages : 860
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Category : Insects
Languages : en
Pages : 860
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The Shipley Collection of Scientific Papers
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Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Catalogue of United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 732
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 732
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Papers and Reports on Cotton Cultivation
Author: Wyndham Rowland Dunstan
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Category : Cotton
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Category : Cotton
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Catalogue of the Public Documents of the [the Fifty-third] Congress [to the 76th Congress] and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1864
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1864
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Boll Weevil Blues
Author: James C. Giesen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226292851
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Between the 1890s and the early 1920s, the boll weevil slowly ate its way across the Cotton South from Texas to the Atlantic Ocean. At the turn of the century, some Texas counties were reporting crop losses of over 70 percent, as were areas of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi. By the time the boll weevil reached the limits of the cotton belt, it had destroyed much of the region’s chief cash crop—tens of billions of pounds of cotton, worth nearly a trillion dollars. As staggering as these numbers may seem, James C. Giesen demonstrates that it was the very idea of the boll weevil and the struggle over its meanings that most profoundly changed the South—as different groups, from policymakers to blues singers, projected onto this natural disaster the consequences they feared and the outcomes they sought. Giesen asks how the myth of the boll weevil’s lasting impact helped obscure the real problems of the region—those caused not by insects, but by landowning patterns, antiquated credit systems, white supremacist ideology, and declining soil fertility. Boll Weevil Blues brings together these cultural, environmental, and agricultural narratives in a novel and important way that allows us to reconsider the making of the modern American South.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226292851
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Between the 1890s and the early 1920s, the boll weevil slowly ate its way across the Cotton South from Texas to the Atlantic Ocean. At the turn of the century, some Texas counties were reporting crop losses of over 70 percent, as were areas of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi. By the time the boll weevil reached the limits of the cotton belt, it had destroyed much of the region’s chief cash crop—tens of billions of pounds of cotton, worth nearly a trillion dollars. As staggering as these numbers may seem, James C. Giesen demonstrates that it was the very idea of the boll weevil and the struggle over its meanings that most profoundly changed the South—as different groups, from policymakers to blues singers, projected onto this natural disaster the consequences they feared and the outcomes they sought. Giesen asks how the myth of the boll weevil’s lasting impact helped obscure the real problems of the region—those caused not by insects, but by landowning patterns, antiquated credit systems, white supremacist ideology, and declining soil fertility. Boll Weevil Blues brings together these cultural, environmental, and agricultural narratives in a novel and important way that allows us to reconsider the making of the modern American South.
An Index to Circulars 1 to 100 of the Bureau of Entomology
Author: Rolla P. Currie
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Category : Agricultural pests
Languages : en
Pages : 1098
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Category : Agricultural pests
Languages : en
Pages : 1098
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