Wheels of Farm Progress
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Book Description
By the mid-1800s, farming and the wheel had become inseparable. Marvin McKinley looks beyond the important technical details of mechanization into the social fabric of change, and the impact of new equipment, new methods, and new ideas on American agriculture. Many interesting anecdotes, over 250 illustrations.
About the Author
Born and raised in a farming community in north-central Ohio, Marvin McKinley, as a boy, was fascinated by the prevailing style of rural living. Tales of earlier times, related by his grandparents and others, instilled in him a keen interest in agricultural history. The sweeping changes in farming methods which took place during the 1940s brought an era in American agriculture to a close. McKinley considered this to be in many respects regrettable, and conceived the idea of someday perpetuating the era by recording its colorful events. He spent a great many hours to the study of early-day agriculture, rare farm machinery literature, and other related material. This book is the result of those efforts.
Wheels of Farm Progress,Marvin McKinley,Amer Society of Agricultural,0916150240,Agricultural Engineering (General),Agricultural machinery,History,United States
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