West Virginia Farm Account Book
Author : University of West Virginia. College of Agriculture. Extension Department
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Page : 48 pages
File Size : 42,12 MB
Release : 194?
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Author : University of West Virginia. College of Agriculture. Extension Department
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 42,12 MB
Release : 194?
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Author : Ginny Yurich
Publisher : Bookbaby
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 30,13 MB
Release : 2019-05-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781543967500
There are so many things to do on a farm. You could head to the barn to play with the kittens or go fishing in the small pond. You could grab a jar to catch fireflies in or swing high on the porch swing. Childhood outdoor adventures are fun to experience and they are fun to read about. Come along on this childhood adventure and imagine spending a summer with your family at a little farmhouse in West Virginia.
Author : Wilma A. Dunaway
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 28,89 MB
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0807861170
In The First American Frontier, Wilma Dunaway challenges many assumptions about the development of preindustrial Southern Appalachia's society and economy. Drawing on data from 215 counties in nine states from 1700 to 1860, she argues that capitalist exchange and production came to the region much earlier than has been previously thought. Her innovative book is the first regional history of antebellum Southern Appalachia and the first study to apply world-systems theory to the development of the American frontier. Dunaway demonstrates that Europeans established significant trade relations with Native Americans in the southern mountains and thereby incorporated the region into the world economy as early as the seventeenth century. In addition to the much-studied fur trade, she explores various other forces of change, including government policy, absentee speculation in the region's natural resources, the emergence of towns, and the influence of local elites. Contrary to the myth of a homogeneous society composed mainly of subsistence homesteaders, Dunaway finds that many Appalachian landowners generated market surpluses by exploiting a large landless labor force, including slaves. In delineating these complexities of economy and labor in the region, Dunaway provides a perceptive critique of Appalachian exceptionalism and development.
Author : John Alexander Vye
Publisher :
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 32,82 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Agriculture
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Publisher : Gramercy
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 39,87 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Cooking
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Author : United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics
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Page : 666 pages
File Size : 36,63 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Farm produce
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Author : Suzanne McMinn
Publisher : HarperOne
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,13 MB
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062223715
Suzanne McMinn, a former romance writer and founder of the popular blog chickensintheroad.com, shares the story of her search to lead a life of ordinary splendor in Chickens in the Road, her inspiring and funny memoir. Craving a life that would connect her to the earth and her family roots, McMinn packed up her three kids, left her husband and her sterile suburban existence behind, and moved to rural West Virginia. Amid the rough landscape and beauty of this rural mountain country, she pursues a natural lifestyle filled with chickens, goats, sheep—and no pizza delivery. With her new life comes an unexpected new love—"52," a man as beguiling and enigmatic as his nickname—a turbulent romance that reminds her that peace and fulfillment can be found in the wake of heartbreak. Coping with formidable challenges, including raising a trio of teenagers, milking stubborn cows, being snowed in with no heat, and making her own butter, McMinn realizes that she’s living a forty-something’s coming-of-age story. As she dares to become self-reliant and embrace her independence, she reminds us that life is a bold adventure—if we’re willing to live it. Chickens in the Road includes more than 20 recipes, craft projects, and McMinn’s photography, and features a special two-color design.
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Page : 460 pages
File Size : 12,92 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Agriculture
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Author : Louise McNeill
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 22,98 MB
Release : 1988-08-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0822979772
The Milkweed Ladies, the memoirs of poet Louise McNeill, is written out of deep affection for and intimate knowledge of the lives of rural people and the rhythms of the natural world. It is a personal account of the farm in southern West Virginia where her family has lived for nine generations.Born in 1911, McNeill tells the story of her own growing years on the farm through the circadian rhythms of rural life. She presents the farm itself, "its level fields, its fence row, and hilly pastures . . . some two hundred acres of trees and bluegrass, running water, and the winding, dusty paths that cattle and humans have kept open through the years." She writes movingly of the harsh routines of the lives of her family, from spring ploughing to winter sugaring, and of the hold the farm itself has on them and the earth itself on all of us.By the 1930s, the farm and the surrounding community had been drastically changed by the destruction left by the lumber companies, by the increased access to the outside world resulting from railway and automobile, and by war. McNeill herself left the farm in 1937 to complete her college education and to persue her literary career.Throughout The Milkweed Ladies, McNeill juxtaposes the life of the farm with the larger world events that impinge on it. But the larger world moves closer and closer to the world of the farm as McNeill herself moves away from it. The book concludes with McNeill's perspective on the events of August 5, 1945. As she sits in the Commodore Hotel in New York City, reading the headlines about Hiroshima, she understands that she can never see the farm in the same way again.The Milkweed Ladies is filled with memorable characters - an herb-gathering Granny, McNeill's sailor father, her patient, flower-loving mother, and Aunt Malindy in her "black sateen dress" who "never did a lick of work." With her poet's gift for detail and language, McNeill creates a world, forgotten by many of us, to some of us never known.
Author : United States. Office of Cooperative Extension Work
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Page : 354 pages
File Size : 18,68 MB
Release : 1929
Category : Agriculture
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