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Lyman Carrier Agriculture in Virginia, 1607-1699

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Europe were controlled by the feudal system. The arable land was owned in large estates or manors by feudal barons, the actual labor on the farms being performed by serfs. These farm laborers belonged to the land and were exchanged with it when there was a change in ownership of the real estate. Farming was looked upon as necessary to existence, but not as a business enterprise. Since trade and transportation in farm products were extremely limited, consumption took place near the fields of production. [more]

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Lyster H. Dewey , Jason L. Merrill Hemp Hurds as Paper-Making Material United States Department of Agriculture, Bulletin No. 404

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Lyster Hoxie Dewey (1865–1944) was an American botanist, born in Cambridge, Michigan In 1888, he graduated from Michigan Agricultural College where, for the next two years, he taught botany. He was an assistant botanist of the United States Department of Agriculture from 1890 to 1902 and thereafter botanist in charge of fibre investigations. In 1911, he was the U.S. representative to the International Fibre Congress in Surabaya, Java. His publications comprised bulletins of the United States Department of Agriculture on the production of fibre from flax, hemp, sisal, and manila plants; on the classification and origin of the varieties of cotton; and also investigations on grasses and troublesome weeds.[1] [more]

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W. H. R. CURTLER A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLISH AGRICULTURE (PART -II)

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When The Early Bands Of English Invaders Came Over To Take Britain From Its Celtic Owners, It Is Almost [more]

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W. H. R. CURTLER A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLISH AGRICULTURE (PART-I)

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When The Early Bands Of English Invaders Came Over To Take Britain From Its Celtic Owners, It Is Almost [more]

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F. H. King Farmers Of Forty Centuries (fiscle part-I) Or, Permanent Agriculture In china, Korea And Japan

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We Left The United states From Seattle For Shanghai, China, Sailing By The Northern Route, At One P. M. February Second, Reaching Yokohama February 19Th And Shanghai, March 1St. It Was Our Aim Throughout The Journey To Keep In close Contact With The Field And Crop Problems And To Converse Personally, Through Interpreters Or Otherwise, With The Farmers, Gardeners And Fruit Growers Themselves; And We Have Taken Pains In many Cases To Visit The Same Fields Or The Same Region Two, Three Or More Times At Different Intervals During the Season In order To Observe Different Phases Of The Same Cultural Or Fertilization Methods As These Changed or Varied with The Season. Our First Near View Of Japan Came In the Early Morning of February 19Th When Passing some Three Miles Off The Point Where The Pacific Passenger Steamer Dakota Was Beached and Wrecked in broad Daylight Without Loss Of Life Two Years Ago. The High Rounded hills Were Clothed neither In the Dense Dark Forest Green Of Washington And Vancouver, Left Sixteen Days Before, Nor Yet In the Brilliant Emerald Such As Ireland'S Hills In june Fling in unparalleled Greeting to Passengers Surfeited with The Dull Grey Of The Rolling Ocean. This Lack Of Strong Forest Growth And Even Of Shrubs And Heavy Herbage On Hills Covered with Deep Soil, Neither Cultivated Nor Suffering from Serious Erosion, Yet Surrounded by Favorable Climatic Conditions, Was Our First Great Surprise. [more]

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F. H. King Farmers Of Forty Centuries (Fiscle Part-X) Or, Permanent Agriculture In China, Korea And Japan

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We Left The United States From Seattle For Shanghai, China, Sailing By The Northern Route, At One P. M. February Second, Reaching Yokohama February 19th And Shanghai, March 1st. It Was Our Aim Throughout The Journey To Keep In Close Contact With The Field And Crop Problems And To Converse Personally, Through Interpreters Or Otherwise, With The Farmers, Gardeners And Fruit Growers Themselves; And We Have Taken Pains In Many Cases To Visit The Same Fields Or The Same Region Two, Three Or More Times At Different Intervals During The Season In Order To Observe Different Phases Of The Same Cultural Or Fertilization Methods As These Changed Or Varied With The Season. [more]

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F. H King Farmers of Forty Centuries or Permanent Agriculture in China Korea and Japan

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Franklin Hiram King (8 June 1848 – 4 August 1911) was an American agricultural scientist who was born [more]

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L. O. Howard , F. C. Bishopp The House Fly and How to Suppress It U. S. Department of Agriculture Farmers' Bulletin No. 1408

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Several species of flies are found commonly in houses. Some of them so closely resemble the true house [more]

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George E Waring The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools

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George E. Waring, Jr. (July 4, 1833[1] – October 29, 1898) was an American sanitary engineer and civic [more]

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Horace Greeley What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science

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Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was editor of the New-York Tribune, among the great [more]

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