Centennial Farms of Indiana
Author : M. Teresa Baer
Publisher : Indiana Historical Society
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,5 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9780871951649
Author : M. Teresa Baer
Publisher : Indiana Historical Society
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,5 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9780871951649
Author : Amy McVay Abbott
Publisher : Lost Lenore Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,94 MB
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780578885285
Anna Long Hoard stood at Eberhard Cemetery, watching her husband's casket lowered into his grave. Kellis Hoard died by mistaking sulphuric acid for cider, a mystery never solved. Kellis was Anna's rock and the man who farmed Anna's legacy farm. She had no sons. Could she keep the farm? Generations before her lived the every-man story of American settlers. Like thousands of pioneers who left the East Coast after the Revolutionary War in search of a better life, the Longs fought weather and wild country to move to a state in the Old Northwest Territory. Reuben Long, the patriarch, and his children and grandchildren fought to keep the Indiana farm in the family. If Mother Nature did her part, permanent land ownership meant economic security, a ready supply of food, and one of the few wealth-building opportunities in the country. Keeping the family farm meant survival and security. And their journey was anything but easy.
Author : George Streibe Cottman
Publisher :
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 47,31 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Robert Leslie Johnson
Publisher :
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 11,51 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Berrien County (Mich.)
ISBN :
Daniel Zeiger (1860-1936) was born in Madison Towhsip, St. Joseph County, Indiana, the youngest son of John J. Zeiger (1821-1874) and Rosanna Shearer Zeiger (1816-1875), emigrants from Wurttemberg, Germany. Angeline Reese (1862-1924) was born in Milton Township, Cass County, Michigan, the daughter of Jacob Rees (1822-1893) and Sylvaia House Rees (1829-1914). They were married in 1884 at Mishawaka, Indiana. They had eight children, 1884-1898. The family purchased a farm in Chikaming Township, Berrien County, Michigan, in 1888.
Author : James Albert Woodburn
Publisher :
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 10,56 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Indiana
ISBN :
Author : Paul Salstrom
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,74 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557534538
Indiana's pioneers came to southern Indiana to turn the dream of an America based on family farming into a reality. The golden age prior to the Civil War led to a post-War preserving of the independent family farmer. Salstrom examines this "independence" and finds the label to be less than adequate. Hoosier farming was an inter-dependent activity leading to a society of borrowing and loaning. When people talk about supporting family farming, as Salstrom notes, the issue is a societal one with a greater population involved than just the farmers themselves.
Author : Abraham Lincoln Gary
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 13,96 MB
Release : 2017-11-09
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780260655509
Excerpt from Centennial History of Rush County, Indiana, Vol. 1 of 2 Chapter IV - agriculture Herein Is Set Out a Review of the Development of the Basic Source of Rush County's Great Prosperity - Far Cry from the First Settler's Clearing to the Modern Farm - First County Agricultural Society - Something About the Old County Fair Days Story of That Equine Phenomenon, Blue Bull - Deleterious Effect on County Fair - Patrons of Husbandry, or Grangers - Market Prices of Another Day Increase In Land Values - In the Days of Marks and Brands - Milroy Farmers' Festi val Rush County Farmers' Association Farmers' Clubs and Institutes - Work of County Agricultural Agent - Record of Farm Production - Register of Farm Names. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Indiana Historical Commission
Publisher :
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 50,54 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Indiana
ISBN :
Author : Louis J. Clements
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 23,90 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :
Author : Frederick Whitford
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 47,73 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 1557537437
Imagine Indiana farms at the turn of the last century. What comes from the land sustains us. Our farms and families depend on it. Having a good or bad year can mean the difference between prosperity and your family going hungry. Farmers knew how to provide. Throughout the 1800s, parents had passed their best knowledge on to their sons and daughters, who in turn taught their children tried-and-true methods for managing a farm--methods that provided consistency in a world of droughts, disease, and fluctuating markets. Before they abandoned a hundred years of proven practices or adopted new technology, they would have to be convinced that it was in their best interest. Enter county extension agents. Indiana county extension agents took up their posts in 1912, at a crucial juncture in the advancement of agriculture. The systematic introduction of hybrid seed corn, tractors, lime, certified seed, cow-testing associations, farm bureaus, commercial fertilizers, balanced livestock diets, soybeans, and 4-H clubs were all yet to come. Many of the most significant agricultural innovations of the 1900s, which are commonplace today, were still being developed in the laboratories and experimental fields of land-grant colleges like Purdue University. Compiled from original county agent records discovered in Purdue University's Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections Research Center, Enriching the Hoosier Farm Family includes hundreds of rare, never-before-published photographs and anecdotal information about how county agents overcame their constituents' reluctance to change. They visited farmers on their farms, day after day, year after year. They got to know them personally. They built trust in communities and little by little were able to share new information. Gradually, their practical applications of new methodologies for solving old problems and for managing and increasing productivity introduced farmers and their families to exciting new frontiers of agriculture.