Author: Orator Fuller Cook
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Category : Boll weevil
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Cotton Improvement Under Weevil Conditions
Author: Orator Fuller Cook
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Category : Boll weevil
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Category : Boll weevil
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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A New System of Cotton Culture and Its Application
Author: Orator Fuller Cook
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Category : Cotton
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Category : Cotton
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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The Cotton Bollworm
Author: Altus Lacy Quaintance
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Category : Agricultural education
Languages : en
Pages : 1384
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Brief summary of methods of getting rid of rats to prevent disease and damage.
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Category : Agricultural education
Languages : en
Pages : 1384
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Brief summary of methods of getting rid of rats to prevent disease and damage.
Sugar-beet Growing Under Irrigation
Author: A. C. Morgan
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1134
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1134
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Boll Weevil Blues
Author: James C. Giesen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226292851
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
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
Book Description
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.
Manufacturers' Record
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
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Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 824
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 824
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A Study in the Cost of Producing Milk on Four Dairy Farms, Located in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina
Author: Morton Oscar Cooper
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Category : Dairying
Languages : en
Pages : 824
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Category : Dairying
Languages : en
Pages : 824
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... Courses in Secondary Agriculture for Southern Schools
Author: Harry Percy Barrows
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Category : Agricultural education
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Category : Agricultural education
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Department Bulletin
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 908
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 908
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