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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| American Agriculture before 1930 | |
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| Commercial Origins | |
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| Tilling and Preparing the Soil | |
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| Tools for Planting and Cultivating | |
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| Tools of Harvest | |
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| The Tractor | |
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| Research, Education, and Extension | |
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| Credit and Marketing | |
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| The Traditional Family Farm: A Personal Account | |
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| Profile of a Farming Village | |
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| Home Provenance | |
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| Household Patterns | |
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| A New Deal for Agriculture, 1930-1938 | |
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| First Fruits: Hoover's Farm Board | |
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| Maturing a New Farm Program | |
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| The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 | |
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| Other New Deal Farm Programs | |
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| Soil Conservation and the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 | |
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| World War II and Its Aftermath: A Family Report | |
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| Wartime Changes in My Village | |
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| Postwar Transformations | |
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| Successful Farming in Pennsylvania | |
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| Dimensions of an Agricultural Revolution | |
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| The Great New Machines | |
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| Electrification | |
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| Chemical Inputs | |
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| Plant and Animal Breeding | |
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| Surpluses and Payments: Federal Agricultural Policy, 1954-2008 | |
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| Production Controls and Price Supports | |
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| Farm Policy in the Truman and Eisenhower Administrations | |
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| Managing Surpluses during a Productivity Revolution | |
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| The Farm Crisis of the 1980s | |
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| International Agreements and the Federal Agricultural Improvement and Reform Act | |
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| The 2002 Farm Bill and Beyond | |
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| Noncommodity Programs | |
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| Farming in the Twenty-first Century: Status and Challenges | |
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| Profile of Contemporary Farms | |
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| Farm Labor | |
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| Farm Income | |
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| Critics and Criticisms | |
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| Agriculture and the Environment | |
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| Alternatives | |
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| Lonely Farmers | |
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| Alternatives in Land Tenure | |
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| Agrarian Reform | |
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| Alternative or Sustainable Agriculture | |
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| Federal Support of Sustainable Agriculture | |
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| Certified Organic Farming | |
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| Afterword | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |