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Managing The Farm, Educating The Farmer O Pioneers! And The New Agriculture, William Conlogue

Great Plains Quarterly

Most studies of Willa Cather's O Pioneers! (1913) comment on Alexandra Bergson's mystic relationship with the land and on the land's positive response to her love, on the "perfect harmony in nature" at the novel's center, or on its country versus city elements.² In such interpretations, Alexandra is an ideal farmer, one whose literary roots stretch back to Virgil's Eclogues.³ Although these readings work well, they remain incomplete because they ignore a crucial element: the novel's celebration of an agriculture modeled on urban industrialism. Though Cather herself may have had "the dimmest possible view of literature with …

The Price Of Patriotism Alberta Cattlemen And The Loss Of The American Market, 1942-48, Max Foran

Great Plains Quarterly

One of the most controversial episodes in the history of the western Canadian cattle industry occurred during the years 1942-48 when the Canadian government imposed an embargo on Canadian cattle entering the United States. This unprecedented measure was a reaction to the extraordinary demands of the national war effort, and was accepted conditionally by the cattle industry as a necessary patriotic gesture. However, official wartime policies respecting this embargo, and its retention beyond the war until late 1948 were neither anticipated nor appreciated by western Canadian stockmen. Their efforts to restore a market deemed crucial to their industry's survival, and …

United States Agricultural Information Network (Usain) Fourth, Dana W. R. Boden, Elaine Maytag Nowick, Mary Cassner

UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications

General overview of the United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN) Fourth National Conference held April 26-29, 1995,in Lexington, Kentucky. The conference theme was "Cultivating New Ground in Electronic Information: Use of the Information Highway to Support Agriculture".

History Of Vocational Agriculture In Nebraska, M. G. Mccreight

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communication: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Scholarship

In keeping with the responsibility of the Department of Agricultural Education, University of Nebraska, Lincoln for stimulating, facilitating and maintaining vocational education in agriculture across Nebraska, and its commitment to inform all who have interest or need to know the current "state of the art,"" this publication has been developed and distributed.

The purpose of this publication is to present a history of Agricultural Education at the Secondary school level in Nebraska. Attention is called to efforts of the state of Nebraska to implement instruction at the secondary level prior to the beginning of and during the early years of …