Download or read book Beliefs and Values in American Farming Classic Reprint written by James L. Gulley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Beliefs and Values in American Farming The fundamental relationship between beliefs and values should be noted. Beliefs and values may sometimes be used interchangeably. If one values the concept of equality of economic opportunity, he also affirms his belief to what that concept means to him. Values are hierarchically so arranged that it can be said at a given time that some values are considered more basic than others. Instrumental values, those which are means rather than ends in themselves, contribute to the realization of more basic values, or goals. The value (normative belief) which suggests that a farmer should become the full owner of his farming operation may be a means to the achievement of the more basic value (normative belief) that a farmer should be independent. Clearly, the importance of the value of full ownership changes as the importance of the value of independence changes. However, if full ownership is judged an ineffective means of achieving independence, full ownership may be discarded as a goal and assume a less important position in one's hierarchy of values. In more explicit terms, a goal is a condition, not yet established or attained, which some entity is trying or could try to attain (42, p. Goals may be either ends or means to ends. If the achievement of goal A is prerequisite to the achievement of goal B, goal A can rightfully be described as both an end and a means to an end. Beliefs and values are concretely related to the future through goals. What men perceive to be true, worthwhile, and desirable is re ected in the way in which they anticipate and therefore shape the future. 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."
Download or read book Beliefs and Values in American Farming written by United States. Department of Agriculture. Economic Research Service and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beliefs and Values in American Farming written by Estados Unidos. Department of Agriculture. Economic Research Service and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beliefs and Values in American Farming written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beliefs and Values in American Farming written by Estados Unidos Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Farming written by United States Department Of Agriculture and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American Farming: An Introduction for Young People Most of us live in or near a city. We study in city or suburban schools. We earn our living in the city, and we look to it for most of our recreation. We hardly ever think about the job of growing the food we eat and the fiber that is used in our clothes and homes. Yet the people who do this job - the farm families of America - help every one of us to a better life. They produce the bacon we eat at breakfast, the apple in our lunchbox, the cotton in the shirt We wear, the turkey on our holiday table. They do mankind's primary work taking care of animals and cultivating the earth - so that all of us have abundant food and clothing. Because American farmers do their 'j ob so well, the rest of us can manufacture autos and furniture, practice medi cine, fly airplanes, design buildings, teach school, and do all the other varied work of the Nation. 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.
Download or read book The Unsettling of America written by Wendell Berry and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. In it, Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural and spiritual discipline. Today’s agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural context and away from families. As a result, we as a nation are more estranged from the land—from the intimate knowledge, love, and care of it. Sadly, his arguments and observations are more relevant than ever. Although “this book has not had the happy fate of being proved wrong,” Berry writes, there are people working “to make something comely and enduring of our life on this earth.” Wendell Berry is one of those people, writing and working, as ever, with passion, eloquence, and conviction.
Download or read book The Culture of Farm Crops written by Henry Stewart and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Culture of Farm Crops: A Manual of the Science of Agriculture, and a Hand-Book of Practice for American Farmers Not a farmer of that day, nor a chemist, knew that bones furnished phosphoric acid to plants; or that guano provided in its ammonia the materials from which their gluten and other nitrogenous substances were derived. Indeed the renowned father of agricultural science: Liebig - when he propounded his mineral theory, which was that the ashes of plants contained everything which they drew from the soil, and that if the mineral substances contained in the ashes, were supplied in sufficient quantity to the crops, there would be scarcely a limit to the product, excepting the space in which they were contained - knew nothing about the invaluable nitrogen which we now know to be wholly indispensable to plant growth. But light has grad ually dawned upon us, and by slow and sometimes faltering progress, there has been built up a system of agricultural science which explains the laws of plant growth and affords the most important information to the cultivator of the soil. Science is based upon fact. Philosophy is based upon speculation. Science is the outgrowth of philosophy, be cause before we can reach a true knowledge of any fact we must approach the study of it by a well devised theory, changed as may be necessary, and tested patiently and slowly until the knowledge sought is found. This know ledge, when verified by practice, sufficiently proved and classified, becomes science. Science then is nothing for the farmer to fear, or cast doubt and suspicion upon. Theory as has been said, has no part or lot in it; it is a summary of known facts, and is therefore of the most valuable use to the farmer as it gives him a sound basis upon which to build up such conclusions in regard to his practice as will enable him to meet the various difficulties which are al ways arising in his work. 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.
Download or read book In the Blood written by Robert Wuthnow and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid and moving portrait of America's farm families Farming is essential to the American economy and our daily lives, yet few of us have much contact with farmers except through the food we eat. Who are America's farmers? Why is farming important to them? How are they coping with dramatic changes to their way of life? In the Blood paints a vivid and moving portrait of America’s farm families, shedding new light on their beliefs, values, and complicated relationship with the land. Drawing on more than two hundred in-depth interviews, Robert Wuthnow presents farmers in their own voices as they speak candidly about their family traditions, aspirations for their children, business arrangements, and conflicts with family members. They describe their changing relationships with neighbors, their shifting views about religion, and the subtle ways they defend their personal independence. Wuthnow shares the stories of farmers who operate dairies, raise livestock, and grow our fruit and vegetables. We hear from corn and soybean farmers, wheat-belt farmers, and cotton growers. We gain new insights into how farmers assign meaning to the land, and how they grapple with the increasingly difficult challenges of biotechnology and global markets. In the Blood reveals how, despite profound changes in modern agriculture, farming remains an enduring commitment that runs deeply in the veins of today’s farm families.
Download or read book American Farming and Stock Raising With Useful Facts for the Household Vol 1 of 3 written by Charles Louis Flint and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-06-25 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American Farming and Stock Raising, With Useful Facts for the Household, Vol. 1 of 3: Devoted to Farming in All Its Departments, Including Rotation of Crops, Drainage, Fertilizers, Ensilage, the Dairy, Orchard, Vineyard The prosperity of a country depends chiefly upon the intelligent cultivation of its soil. No one can doubt that. The intelligent cultivation of the soil depends upon information. This is equally plain. Practical and theoretical knowledge is power in agriculture, as in everything else. It lies at the foundation of individual and national wealth. Those who know the most will, in the long run, do the best work at the best time and in the best way. They will work out the best results, both for themselves and for the community in which they live. The progress made within the last twenty years in the sciences which are intimately con nected with the cultivation of the soil is something wonderful. It has opened new fields of thought, of investigation, and of experiment. During that time the science of chemistry has made rapid advances, and its methods of investigation have been greatly improved. It has brought its contributions to agriculture from a great variety of sources, each of which brings something peculiar to itself. It has explained the composition of soils and manures. It has added greatly to our stock of knowledge as to the methods of feeding animals to obtain special results, giving us accurate information of the composition of feeding substances, and the effect of different processes of feeding upon the development of the animal economy. At the same time botany has solved the mysteries of plant-growth, and, with the aid of vegetable physiology, has thrown a flood of light upon the elements of plant-food, and the means by which the production of crops can be greatly promoted. All the sciences, indeed, have contributed to the development of agriculture, some of them directly, others by leading the minds of men to a higher standard of intellectual activity. The agricultural literature of the country has grown up almost entirely within the last quarter of a century, and has taken a rank worthy of the importance of the industry to the development of which it is devoted. Thirty years ago there were few works on farming in this country that were at all creditable either in style or the information they contained. Most of the books on the subject were English, or reprints of English publications. They were not well adapted to meet the wants of American farmers. They often contained much that was interesting, but generally lacked that full and practical information based on actual experiment that was well calculated to meet the wants of daily life upon the farm. They abounded in theories rather than facts. 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.
Download or read book Struggle for Equal Opportunity written by Orrin L. Keener and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Struggle for Equal Opportunity: Dirt Farmers and the American Country Life Association The thought and values of rural people are resources that have contributed much to the strength of our nation, but, like the resources of fertile soil and virgin forest, they have been depleted at an alarming rate. There seems to be some thing about close contact with nature and the generous Creator of all harvests that helps counteract godless material ism and the worship of man-made things. The permanency of any civilization seems to depend upon maintaining this relationship. 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.
Download or read book The Farmers Educational and Co Operative Union of America written by A. C. Davis and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Farmers' Educational and Co-Operative Union of America: What It Is and What It Is Doing If you desire to better the condition of yourself and family both financially and socially, read this book. If you believe the present system of marketing farm crops through so many middle men exacts too much toll from both producer and consumer, read this book and see what co-operation will do. If you are skeptical about the business ability of the American farmer, yet open to conviction, read this book and be convinced. If you are a farmer but not a member of the Farmers' Union, read this book, then send your application to the nearest local. If the organization is not represented in your community write for additional literature to A. C. Davis, Secretary-Treasurer, Rogers, Ark. 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.
Download or read book The Green Rising written by W. B. Bizzell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Green Rising: An Historical Survey of Agrarianism, With Special Reference to the Organized Efforts of the Farmers of the United States to Improve Their Economic and Social Status Rising has been in progress in this country for several years and today important economic and social changes are being brought about through its influence. In a sort of awful silence, says Chesterton, the peasantries have fought one vast and voiceless pitched battle with Bolshevism and its twin brother, Big Business, and the peasantries have won. All sorts of recent events have shown the way the tide is driving; the paying-off of mortgages in France and Belgium; the predominance of the agricultural plains in America; the rise of the popular party in Italy; and the sudden concessions in Ireland. While it is incorrect to refer to American farmers as peasants, Chesterton's description of what is happening is not an overstatement of the facts. 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.
Download or read book Wake Up America Classic Reprint written by Mark Sullivan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Wake Up America F the way that war came to Belgium and to France there are two pictures which, among Ameri can witnesses, surpass all others and are unforgetahle. One is in the letters home of an American woman. 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.
Download or read book Peter Henderson and Co s American Farmers Manual 1900 Classic Reprint written by Peter Henderson and Company and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-12-28 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Peter Henderson and Co's. American Farmers Manual, 1900 For green fodder and the silo. Of Japanese Millet several pieces, of an acre or more each, were sown for feeding green or for the silo. The earliest, sown broadcast about the middle of May on rich land, one peck of seed to the acre, averaged about six feet in height, and produced over 15 tons per acre. This was cut from day to day, beginning before the millet had blossomed. Another field of about an acre, sown the last of June, yielded at the rate of rather over 18 tons per acre. Another field, sown July 26th, after a cr0p of hay was removed, yielded about 12 tons per acre. The crop of the two last fields was put into the silo. That cut from day to day, and fed to cows, was much relished. Its superiority to well-eared flint corn fodder was very apparent. Cows with both before them always take the millet first: they consume it without waste, while they are apt to leave a art of the stalks of the corn as it approaches maturity. In alternating this ccd with corn fodder, the cows invariably increased in milk when put upon the millet, and fell off when changed to corn. It has been ensiled with soja beans, - about two parts by weight of the millet and one of the beans. This combination makes very superior silage. 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.
Download or read book Chicory Growing as an Addition to the Resources of the American Farmer Classic Reprint written by Maurice G. Kains and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Chicory Growing as an Addition to the Resources of the American Farmer Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith, for publication as a Bulle tin of the Division of Botany, a manuscript entitled Chicory Growing as an Addition to the Resources of the American Farmer, prepared under my direction by Mr. Maurice Gr. Kains. As the report contains chapters on the adulteration and chemical analysis of chicory, it has been submitted to the Chemist of the Department, Dr. H. W. Wiley, who has revised those portions of it. In the year 1896 the United States imported pounds of chicory, having a wholesale Value of Most of this chicory was grown in Belgium. In the belief that chicory could be made a profitable crop in the United States, we began an investigation the results of which are embodied in this report. The Department of Agriculture may confidently recommend the cultivation of chicory in the mid-northern belt of our country. Its cultivation, however, as a market product on a farm should be undertaken only when a chicory mill, where the crop can be disposed of, is close at hand, or when the farmer can grow the root on a sufficiently large scale to own and work his own mill. As a home product, however, its cultivation may be much more general. There is no reason why the individual farmer should not grow, dry, and roast the chicory used upon his own table if he desires to pursue this course, instead of purchasing the pure manufactured product. He is certainly entitled to exemption from its purchase at an exorbitant price in the form of supposed ground coffee. It should be considered, however, by those who propose to take up the cultivation of chicory as an agricultural industry, that a very limited area will produce all the chicory we customarily import, and that over production of this crop would be easy. 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.
Download or read book CULTURE OF FARM CROPS A MANUAL written by Henry Stewart and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
