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Oxen: Status, Uses And Practices In The U.S.A., Encouraging A Historic Tradition To Thrive, Andrew B. Conroy May 2022

Oxen: Status, Uses And Practices In The U.S.A., Encouraging A Historic Tradition To Thrive, Andrew B. Conroy

Faculty Publications

Oxen in the United States of America have played an important role throughout its history. Unlike other countries,oxen were never completely given up for horses, mules, or tractors. Instead, the culture of keeping oxen has been maintained by a small group of teamsters in the North- eastern states collectively called New England. Their continued presence has been largely due to agricultural fairs and exhibitions where they have been used in competition for the last 200 years. Ox teamsters were sur- veyed in 2021via social media using Qualtrics. The 423 ox teamsters responding owned 1791 oxen in 39 states, with the …


Sewing And Dressmaking In Martha Mcmillan's Day (1891), Elizabeth G. Allen Apr 2022

Sewing And Dressmaking In Martha Mcmillan's Day (1891), Elizabeth G. Allen

Martha McMillan Research Papers

This paper describes the process of sewing and dressmaking in America from the mid 1800s to the early 1900s and provides historical context for Martha McMillan's discussion of sewing and dressmaking in her 1891 journal.


Fruits Of Our Labor: Exploring The Impacts Of A Nonprofit Seed Bank On Indigenous Communities In The Southwestern United States, Rachel Mary Davis Jan 2022

Fruits Of Our Labor: Exploring The Impacts Of A Nonprofit Seed Bank On Indigenous Communities In The Southwestern United States, Rachel Mary Davis

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

This thesis explores the ways that the nonprofit Native Seeds/SEARCH, of Tucson, Arizona interfaces with Indigenous communities and the local seed and food systems in the Southwest United States. The thesis argues that Native seed and food sovereignty have different meanings for different Indigenous people, and that nonprofits working with Indigenous communities need to consider input from them when deciding how to catalogue, regenerate and sustain healthy grow outs for the future, especially in the light of climate change and drought.


To Know The Land With Hands And Minds: Negotiating Agricultural Knowledge In Late-Nineteenth-Century New England And Westphalia, Justus Hillebrand Aug 2021

To Know The Land With Hands And Minds: Negotiating Agricultural Knowledge In Late-Nineteenth-Century New England And Westphalia, Justus Hillebrand

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Ever since the eighteenth century, experts have tried to tell farmers how to farm. The agricultural enlightenment in Europe marked the beginning of a long arc of new experts aiming to change agricultural knowledge and practice. This dissertation analyzes the pivotal period in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in Germany and the United States when scientists, improvers, and market agents began to develop comprehensive ways to communicate agricultural innovation to farmers. In a functional approach to analyzing the negotiation of agricultural knowledge through its communication in things, words, and practices, this dissertation argues that the process of change …


Solanum Jamesii As A Food Crop: History And Current Status Of A Unique Potato, David Kinder, John Bamberg, Lisbeth Louderback, Bruce Pavlik, Alfonso Del Rio May 2021

Solanum Jamesii As A Food Crop: History And Current Status Of A Unique Potato, David Kinder, John Bamberg, Lisbeth Louderback, Bruce Pavlik, Alfonso Del Rio

Pharmacy Faculty Scholarship

Solanum jamesii is a wild potato found in the US southwest. There is ample evidence that this potato was used by ancestral Puebloans as a food source, where some researchers think it was used as a starvation food while others consider it to be regular food source. Currently this potato is being grown by Native Americans, notably the Navajo, as a specialty food as well as a food crop. There are several attributes to this potato that make it especially suitable for development as our climate changes and food needs become more demanding, including its drought tolerance and ability to …


Newspaper Clipping, Freighting Cotton In The Early Days Aug 2020

Newspaper Clipping, Freighting Cotton In The Early Days

Farming in Arkansas

As part of a special interest column, the Mammoth Spring Democrat often ran old photos. This article depicts horse and mule drawn wagons hauling five cotton bales each from a farm in Camp, Arkansas to a cotton gin in Mammoth Spring for processing.


City Market Stockyard In Mammoth Spring Aug 2020

City Market Stockyard In Mammoth Spring

Farming in Arkansas

This is a photograph of Ben F. Elder seated in a mule cart with an unknown man standing beside him. They are in front of the stockyard. Elder established the City Market Stockyard in Mammoth Spring. Photograph caption says, "Tell the Truth."


Mammoth Spring Milling Company Advertisement Aug 2020

Mammoth Spring Milling Company Advertisement

Farming in Arkansas

This is is an advertisement for the Mammoth Spring Milling Company. The milling company has labels on all of the buildings as well as peak load numbers in order to entice farmers to bring their crops for processing.


Vintage Vineyard Aug 2020

Vintage Vineyard

Farming in Arkansas

In this black and white photograph, an unidentified man stands in a vineyard with an old barn in the background. The caption on the photograph says, "In the Thubler Vineyard."


Steam Tractor And Baler Aug 2020

Steam Tractor And Baler

Farming in Arkansas

This is a black and white photograph of an early steam-powered tractor and baler depicted at harvest time along with farm laborers and horses.


Oxen Hauling Logs Aug 2020

Oxen Hauling Logs

Farming in Arkansas

This is a black and white photograph of a team of oxen hauling timber into town across railroad tracks.


Mammoth Spring Milling Company Aug 2020

Mammoth Spring Milling Company

Farming in Arkansas

This is a photograph of the Mammoth Spring Milling Company's main building. Unidentified employees stand by railroad boxcars which would be loaded with processed grains.


Raw Cotton To A Cotton Gin Aug 2020

Raw Cotton To A Cotton Gin

Farming in Arkansas

This is a black and white photograph of horse or mule drawn carts carrying raw cotton to a cotton gin for processing.


Franz Turkey Farm Aug 2020

Franz Turkey Farm

Farming in Arkansas

This is a black and white photograph of two Franz turkey farm employees standing in a flock of turkeys.


Cotton Gin Aug 2020

Cotton Gin

Farming in Arkansas

Black and white photograph of three unidentified men standing in a cotton gin with bales of cotton. This gin was opened by John Michaels in the early 1920s and operated successfully until it burned in 1941.


Postcard, Two Men In Cow-Drawn Wagon Aug 2020

Postcard, Two Men In Cow-Drawn Wagon

Farming in Arkansas

A picture postcard with two unidentified men in a cow-drawn cart on one side and a message to T.H. Raney on the back.


Jane Justus Richardson Feeding The Hogs Aug 2020

Jane Justus Richardson Feeding The Hogs

Farming in Arkansas

Black and white photograph of Jane Justus Richardson feeding hogs in a barnyard.


Brochure, "Roldo Rowden Cotton Seed" Aug 2020

Brochure, "Roldo Rowden Cotton Seed"

Farming in Arkansas

This is an advertising brochure for Roldo Rowden cotton seed bred by Robert L. Dortch of Scott.


Jennings Wood And Wheelbarrow Aug 2020

Jennings Wood And Wheelbarrow

Farming in Arkansas

Photograph of an old wheelbarrow sitting in front of a large stack of firewood.


Rice At Sunrise Aug 2020

Rice At Sunrise

Farming in Arkansas

Photograph of a rice field at sunrise in the Arkansas Delta.


Brochure, "Dortch's Southern Hybrid Seed Corn" Aug 2020

Brochure, "Dortch's Southern Hybrid Seed Corn"

Farming in Arkansas

This is an advertising brochure for Dortch's Southern Hybrid Seed Corn produced by Robert L. Dortch in Scott.


Grandpa's Cultivator Aug 2020

Grandpa's Cultivator

Farming in Arkansas

Photograph of a cultivator hooked to an older model tractor.


Goats By The Hay Rake Aug 2020

Goats By The Hay Rake

Farming in Arkansas

Photographs of goats in a pasture with a hay rake.


Farmer Preparing Fields Aug 2020

Farmer Preparing Fields

Farming in Arkansas

Photograph of a farmer on his tractor working a field in autumn.


Cultivator In Snow Aug 2020

Cultivator In Snow

Farming in Arkansas

Photograph of a horse-drawn cultivator resting in a snowy field with corn shocks behind it.


Crop Dusting Aug 2020

Crop Dusting

Farming in Arkansas

Images of a crop duster flying over a field.


Peach Harvest Aug 2020

Peach Harvest

Farming in Arkansas

Images of peach tree harvesting.


Corn Harvest Aug 2020

Corn Harvest

Farming in Arkansas

Images of corn crop harvesting.


Sorghum Harvest Aug 2020

Sorghum Harvest

Farming in Arkansas

Images of sorghum harvesting.


Rice Harvest Aug 2020

Rice Harvest

Farming in Arkansas

Images of rice harvesting process.