Agricultural, Manufacturing and Commercial Resources and Capabilities of Washington
Author: Washington (State). Bureau of Statistics, Agriculture and Immigration
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Published: 1901
Total Pages: 326
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Author: Washington (State). Bureau of Statistics, Agriculture and Immigration
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Published: 1901
Total Pages: 326
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Washington (State). Legislature. Senate. Interim Committee on Agriculture
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Published: 1946
Total Pages: 84
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 156
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Washington (State). Department of Agriculture
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 210
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Washington Agricultural Experiment Station
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Published: 1962-07
Total Pages: 24
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Washington (State). Department of Agriculture
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 152
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: State College of Washington. Institute of Agricultural Sciences
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Published: 1959*
Total Pages: 6
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bruce A. Ragsdale
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2021-10-12
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0674246381
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fresh, original look at George Washington as an innovative land manager whose singular passion for farming would unexpectedly lead him to reject slavery. George Washington spent more of his working life farming than he did at war or in political office. For over forty years, he devoted himself to the improvement of agriculture, which he saw as the means by which the American people would attain the Òrespectability & importance which we ought to hold in the world.Ó Washington at the Plow depicts the Òfirst farmer of AmericaÓ as a leading practitioner of the New Husbandry, a transatlantic movement that spearheaded advancements in crop rotation. A tireless experimentalist, Washington pulled up his tobacco and switched to wheat production, leading the way for the rest of the country. He filled his library with the latest agricultural treatises and pioneered land-management techniques that he hoped would guide small farmers, strengthen agrarian society, and ensure the prosperity of the nation. Slavery was a key part of WashingtonÕs pursuits. He saw enslaved field workers and artisans as means of agricultural development and tried repeatedly to adapt slave labor to new kinds of farming. To this end, he devised an original and exacting system of slave supervision. But Washington eventually found that forced labor could not achieve the productivity he desired. His inability to reconcile ideals of scientific farming and rural order with race-based slavery led him to reconsider the traditional foundations of the Virginia plantation. As Bruce Ragsdale shows, it was the inefficacy of chattel slavery, as much as moral revulsion at the practice, that informed WashingtonÕs famous decision to free his slaves after his death.
Author: Washington Agricultural Experiment Station
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 380
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