Rural U.S.A.: Persistence and ChangeThomas R. Ford |
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... farmers were never able to sustain for long the spirit of unity and cooperative endeavor recurrently generated by farmer protest movements . Most of the larger farm organizations have given up or reduced their efforts of direct aid to ...
... farmers were never able to sustain for long the spirit of unity and cooperative endeavor recurrently generated by farmer protest movements . Most of the larger farm organizations have given up or reduced their efforts of direct aid to ...
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... farmers adopting more innovations including reduced tillage of corn , rotation of crops , sod waterways , contour plant- ing , terracing , and planting trees . These findings suggest that the older , more traditional farmers are most ...
... farmers adopting more innovations including reduced tillage of corn , rotation of crops , sod waterways , contour plant- ing , terracing , and planting trees . These findings suggest that the older , more traditional farmers are most ...
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... farmer . This meant most farmers in the 1930's , when there were nearly 7 million farms and deep economic depression . It is different today . The United States has 3 million farms but only 1 million of them are serious producers and ...
... farmer . This meant most farmers in the 1930's , when there were nearly 7 million farms and deep economic depression . It is different today . The United States has 3 million farms but only 1 million of them are serious producers and ...
Contents
Quality and Conflicts in Land | 19 |
People on the Land | 37 |
The Changing Character of the Nonmetropolitan | 55 |
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