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Dairy Farms And Agricultural Prosperity In Virginia, 1890-1915, Harold E. Conover
Dairy Farms And Agricultural Prosperity In Virginia, 1890-1915, Harold E. Conover
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In the two-hundred-fifty plus years from the Jamestown landing to the first shots of the Civil War a careless, staple crop agriculture wrought havoc on thousands of acres in Tidewater and Piedmont Virginia. A Virginian looked around him in the Spring of 1859 and was moved to write: "Every county of Virginia from the Seaboard to the head of tidewater now present a standing monument against the ruthless destroyer tobacco, in a wilderness of piney old fields and gullied hillsides..."