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HISTORY of AGRICULTURE A rt, science, and industry of managing the growth of plants and animals for human use. In a broad sense agriculture includes cultivation of the soil, growing and harvesting crops, breeding and raising of livestock, dairying, and forestry (see Animal Husbandry ; Crop Farming ; Dairy Farming ; Forestry ; Poultry Farming ; Soil Management ). Regional and national agriculture are covered in more detail in individual continent and country articles. See also separate articles on the states of Australia and the U.S. and the provinces of Canada. Modern agriculture depends heavily on engineering and technology and on the biological and physical sciences. Irrigation , drainage , conservation (qq.v.), and sanitation (see Engineering: Sanitary Engineering ) each of which is important in successful farming-are some of the fields requiring the specialized knowledge of agricultural engineers. Agricultural chemistry deals with other vital farm problems, such as uses of fertilizer (q.v.), insecticide, and fungicide (see Fungicides; Pest Control), soil makeup, analysis of agricultural products, and nutritional needs of farm animals.

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9. NCDA&CS - North Carolina Agriculture History North Carolina Agricultural History. Image of 2 mules plowing in field Continued on next page Other Agricultural History Links http://www.agr.state.nc.us/stats/history/history.htm

J. Paul Lilly Associate Professor Emeritus Department of Soil Science North Carolina State University In order to understand both agriculture and forestry as they are today, I believe we need to know what they have evolved from. Thomas Isern, Professor of History at Emporia State University, wrote that "If you know nothing of agricultural history, then you cannot understand American history." This is just as true of forestry history. In 1790, 93% of the population of the United States was rural, most of them farmers. By 1990, only 200 years later, barely 2% of our population are farmers. The agriculture we have today in the United States is unique. No nation has ever had so few people actively farming. This is a profound social change that has isolated most people from rural life and from an appreciation of the complexities and uncertainties of food production. For the most part people take agricultural production for granted. Our society has had no experience with true food scarcity. Our supermarkets always have full shelves and food is cheap. Today we spend only 10 percent of our income on food. In 1950 we spent 22 percent of our income on food, and in 1935 a moderate income farm family in North Carolina spent 47% of their total living on food. In the past it took much more time and effort to obtain or produce food.

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11. North Carolina Dept Of Agriculture & Consumer Services Agriculture Overview Our Number One Industry North Carolina agriculture history Image of Vintage Farming North Carolina agriculture history http://www.agr.state.nc.us/stats/general/general.htm

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14. Agriculture History Links The Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums Texas Farm Bureau History Short History of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee http://www.ls.net/~newriver/topic/ag.htm

Sponsored by General Resources Argropolis Germania Farm Mutual Insurance Association History North Carolina Argicultural History History of the Agriculture Experimental Station, University of California at Riverside ... Agriculture Online - Commercial Site from Monsanto The Golden Age of Agriculture in North Dakota Rhode Island Cooperative Extension Service Perdue University School of Agriculture The Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums ... Iowa Farmer Today Online Equipment and Tools Implements Used on the Farm Steam Engines and Tractors Farm Machinery Companies Agricultural Implements ... Housing of Grayson County Farm Folk 1945 Specific Crops/Livestock Dairying on Michgan's Upper Peninsula National Corn Growers Association American Soybean Association American Oil Seeds Association ... Farmway Individual Farms Garfield Farm and Inn Museum Blue Ridge Farm History History of Bishop's Orchards Nixon Farm History ... The Buffalo Ranch, Yellowstone, Wyoming Grist Mills Plan and Power of a Flour Mill of Many Years Ago (1931 article) The Evolution of the Flour Mill from Prehistoric Times to the Modern (1905 article) History of King Arthur Flour Red Turkey Flour ... Return to New River Notes

15. Bibliography On African Americans In Agriculture: History And Culture Published for the Agricultural History Society by the University of California Press, 1927. Spring 1994. v. 68 (2) p. 185-198. CN DNAL 30.98-Ag8 http://www.nal.usda.gov/outreach/abhistcu.htm

Bibliography on African Americans in Agriculture: History and Culture (Selected Sources from the AGRICOLA Database) This entire bibliography may be copied and distributed. For additional information on this bibliography or the AGRICOLA database please contact the National Agricultural Library at (301) 504-5779 or FAX (301) 504-6927 or email to epu@nal.usda.gov AU: Byars,-D. TI: Traditional African American foods and African Americans. SO: Agric-human-values. Gainesville, Fla. : Agriculture and Human Values, Inc. Summer 1996. v. 13 (3) p. 74-78. CN: DNAL HT401.A36 LA: English PT TYPE: Article AU: Nieman,-Donald-G. TI: From slavery to sharecropping : white land and Black labor in the rural South, 1865-1900. ST: African American life in the Post-Emancipation South ; v. 3. SO: New York : Garland, 1994. xiii, 415 p. : ill., maps CN: DNAL HD8081.A65F761994 LA: English PT TYPE: Monograph; Bibliography AU: Parker,-Freddie-L., 1953- TI: Running for freedom : slave runaways in North Carolina, 1775-1840 . ST: Studies in African American history and culture. SO: New York : Garland Pub., 1993. xv, 241 p. : ill., maps

16. House Committee On Agriculture: History Chairman’s Welcome Committee Members Subcommittees Publications Legislation Committee History Minority Office Agricultural History http://agriculture.house.gov/inside/hist.html

Inside the Committee Committee Members Subcommittees Publications Legislation ... Minority Office Resources News Room Agriculture Glossary Inside USDA Schedule ... Email Updates Search This Site May 3, 1820: Committee on Agriculture established with 7 Members from the states of Maryland, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Vermont, and Virginia. First Chairman: U.S. Rep. Thomas Forrest (PA) The Committee today: 45 Members Current Chairman, 109th Congress: U.S. Rep. Bob Goodlatte (VA) More Chairmen have hailed from the State of New York than any other state. Longest serving Chairman: Complete List of Past Chairmen Center for Legislative Archives website. Establishment of the Committee Thus the Committee on Agriculture was created on May 3, 1820. The population of the country was about 9 million and there were 213 Representatives in the House. Seven of these Representatives, under the chairmanship of Thomas Forrest, of Pennsylvania, were assigned to the new committee. Six other States were represented in this group: Maryland, New Hampshire, New York, South Carolina, Vermont, and Virginia. (The Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry was founded December 9, 1825.) Lewis Williams, a Representative from Surrey County, N.C., elected to the 14th and 13 succeeding Congresses, and known as the "Father of the House," was the sponsor of the resolution proposing a Committee on Agriculture, and at the time of its introduction, April 29, 1820, he had this to say on the floor of the House:

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About eMINTS Communities Equipment eThemes ... eThemes Agriculture: History of Farming Contact eThemes@emints.org if you have questions or comments about this resource. Printer-friendly version Please preview all links before sharing in class with students. Title: Agriculture: History of Farming Description: These sites are about the history of farming and agriculture. Includes information about farms and ranches in the U.S. Learn about tools and techniques used in the past. Grade Level: Resource Links: Los Encinos State Historic Park Read about this cattle and sheep ranch in California. Includes photos of the ranch. Arizona History Read about Native Americans and and other farmers in Arizona. Apples to Zucchinis: The Story of Food This ThinkQuest tells about farming and agriculture. "Discuss" contains discussion questions that go along with this site. Hohokam Tribe Learn about the area of Arizona where this ancient tribe lived and learn about their farming, irrigation, and more. Click on an area of the village to read more. Introduction to Pioneer Farming This is a short introduction to the history of farming in the U.S. The "First Farmers" and "Pioneer Farmers" links at the bottom have more information.

18. History Of Jefferson County Agriculture History of Jefferson County Agriculture These organizations sponsored agricultural exhibitions, which grew in size and scope to become major social http://www.preservehistory.org/history_of_jefferson_county_agri.htm

History of Jefferson County Agriculture EVENTS Saturday Oct. 4 Sunday Oct. 5 BARNS Aspen Pool Dunn Farm Linden Spring Ripon Lodge ... RETURN TO LANDMARKS HOME PAGE Barn raising near Shepherdstown, ca. 1910 The Jefferson County area has always been known for its fertile farmland. It was the land, and the ample supply of water, that first drew settlers to this area. The Colonial Period The Jefferson County area has always been known for its fertile farmland. It was the land, and the ample supply of water, that first drew settlers to this area. The soil and climate supported crops that could be grown further north into Pennsylvania as well as those that could be cultivated in southern Virginia. German, Scots-Irish, and English settlers arriving from the north and east in the early 18th century brought their own crop preferences and farming techniques. Settlers from the Tidewater region often carried their plantation culture and crops with them. These factors, combined with the preferences and experience of the new settlers, made for varied agriculture and farming techniques in the Jefferson County area. Because of the size of the plantations and the crops they grew, owners of these operations tended to use more slaves than did their neighbors who emigrated from the north and east. Thus the characteristics of the farming population varied with the type of agriculture being practiced. It was not unusual in this area to find a plantation worked by an overseer and a score of slaves located next door to a farm worked directly by the owner and his family, perhaps augmented by an indentured servant and a slave or two rented from a neighbor.

19. Casting The Die Of Agriculture History - The Archivist Agriculture occupies an important place in Canada s medallic history. Conversely, Canada s medallic heritage illuminates an important aspect of Canada s http://www.collectionscanada.ca/04/042420_e.html

Home Publications The Archivist No. 11 Casting the Die of Agricultural History by Norman M. Willis page 1 of 4 Agriculture occupies an important place in Canada's medallic history. Conversely, Canada's medallic heritage illuminates an important aspect of Canada's agricultural evolution. Other countries have plenty of agricultural medals too, but where there is a longer and stronger medallic tradition, as in Europe, agricultural medals are relatively less significant. Their special place in Canada is explained by a particular combination of historic circumstances. Prosperity brings the medal to Canada About 1850, eastern Canada emerged from the early pioneering stage of its development. At the same time, the medal was achieving a new degree of popularity in Europe, as it came increasingly under the auspices of the prosperous bourgeoisie. Canada was ready to follow this trend. Before this time, Canadians had been too preoccupied with basic practical tasks to have much thought for such cultural trappings as the medal. Now, Canada had a newly prosperous middle class, with the means and the inclination to adopt the medal and other sorts of refinements favoured by its counterpart in the Old World. The difference here was that Canada's affluent middle class remained associated with its agricultural base, whereas the rising Europeans derived their wealth more from industry. The consequence was that the medal, when it came into favour in Canada, was naturally much utilized for the promotion of agriculture.

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Home Publications The Archivist Casting the Die of Agriculture History No. 11 Casting the Die of Agricultural History by Norman M. Willis page 2 of 4 Heyday of the agricultural medal The heyday of the medal, from about 1850 to the coming of the First World War in 1914, coincided with the heyday of the agricultural fair in Canada. The National Medal Collection at the National Archives of Canada contains a wide range of agricultural medals, especially from this period. The earliest Canadian agricultural medal was also the first medal struck on purely Canadian initiative, for a purely Canadian purpose. It was half a century ahead of the more general trend in the country. The National Medal Collection boasts the unique known surviving specimen of this silver medal, an award of the Society for Promoting Agriculture in Nova Scotia. This society was founded in 1789, and the medal was apparently struck in 1791 for award in 1792. It was ordered from England, but the maker's name is not recorded. Silver medal awarded for the best two-year-old horse at Vonda Fair, Saskatchewan, 1912 (MFN-005533). Typical aspects of Canada's agricultural medals Two aspects of the early Nova Scotian medal were to be typical for Canada's agricultural medals generally. These were the aspiration to dignify farming through medals, to put it on a par with the glamorous profession of arms, and the preference for the pictorial symbolization of agriculture through the portrayal of farm tools, farm animals or general farm scenes, rather than through the traditional medallic convention of allegorical figures derived from ancient mythology.

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