Tinged with Gold
Tinged with Gold

Author: Michael A. Tomlan

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0820346748

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Tomlan explores all aspects of hop culture in the United States and provides a background for understanding the buildings devoted to drying, baling, and storing hops. The work considers the history of these structures as it illustrates their development over almost two centuries, the result of agrarian commercialism and technological improvement.

Change in Agriculture
Change in Agriculture

Author: Clarence H. Danhof

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9780674107700

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American agriculture changed radically between 1820 and 1870. In turning slowly from subsistence to commercial farming, farmers on the average doubled the portion of their production places on the market, and thereby laid the foundations for today's highly productive agricultural industry. But the modern system was by no means inevitable. It evolved slowly through an intricate process in which innovative and imitative entrepreneurs were the key instruments.