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Enriching the Hoosier Farm Family

Author : Frederick Whitford
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1557537437
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book Enriching the Hoosier Farm Family written by Frederick Whitford and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine Indiana farms at the turn of the last century. What comes from the land sustains us. Our farms and families depend on it. Having a good or bad year can mean the difference between prosperity and your family going hungry. Farmers knew how to provide. Throughout the 1800s, parents had passed their best knowledge on to their sons and daughters, who in turn taught their children tried-and-true methods for managing a farm--methods that provided consistency in a world of droughts, disease, and fluctuating markets. Before they abandoned a hundred years of proven practices or adopted new technology, they would have to be convinced that it was in their best interest. Enter county extension agents. Indiana county extension agents took up their posts in 1912, at a crucial juncture in the advancement of agriculture. The systematic introduction of hybrid seed corn, tractors, lime, certified seed, cow-testing associations, farm bureaus, commercial fertilizers, balanced livestock diets, soybeans, and 4-H clubs were all yet to come. Many of the most significant agricultural innovations of the 1900s, which are commonplace today, were still being developed in the laboratories and experimental fields of land-grant colleges like Purdue University. Compiled from original county agent records discovered in Purdue University's Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections Research Center, Enriching the Hoosier Farm Family includes hundreds of rare, never-before-published photographs and anecdotal information about how county agents overcame their constituents' reluctance to change. They visited farmers on their farms, day after day, year after year. They got to know them personally. They built trust in communities and little by little were able to share new information. Gradually, their practical applications of new methodologies for solving old problems and for managing and increasing productivity introduced farmers and their families to exciting new frontiers of agriculture.

Scattering the Seeds of Knowledge

Author : Frederick Whitford
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1612495079
Total Pages : 801 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Scattering the Seeds of Knowledge written by Frederick Whitford and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, Purdue Extension delivers practical, research-based information that transforms lives and livelihoods. Tailored to the needs of Indiana, its current programs include Agriculture and Natural Resources, Health and Human Sciences, Economic and Community Development, and 4-H Youth Development. However, today's success is built on over a century of visionary hard work and outreach. Scattering the Seeds of Knowledge: The Words and Works of Indiana's Pioneer County Extension Agents chronicles the tales of the first county Extension agents, from 1912 to 1939. Their story brings readers back to a day when Extension was little more than words on paper, when county agents traveled the muddy back roads, stopping at each farm, introducing themselves to the farmer and his family. These Extension women and men had great confidence in the research and the best practices they represented, and a commanding knowledge of the inner workings of farms and rural residents. Most importantly, however, they had a knack with people. In many cases they were given the cold shoulder at first by the farmers they were sent to help. However, through old-fashioned, can-do perseverance and a dogged determination to make a difference in the lives of people, these county Extension agents slowly inched the state forward one farmer at a time. Their story is a history lesson on what agriculture was like at the turn of the twentieth century, and a lesson to us all about how patient outreach and dedicated engagement-backed by proven science from university research-reshaped and modernized Indiana agriculture.

Wings of Their Dreams

Author : John Norberg
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1612496105
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Wings of Their Dreams written by John Norberg and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout 100-plus years of flight, Purdue University has propelled unique contributions from pioneer educators, aviators, and engineers who flew balloons into the stratosphere, barnstormed the countryside, helped break the sound barrier, and left footprints in lunar soil. Wings of Their Dreams follows the flight plans and footsteps of aviation's pioneers and trailblazers across the twentieth century, a path from Kitty Hawk to the Sea of Tranquility and beyond. The book reminds readers that the first and last men to land on the moon first trekked across the West Lafayette, Indiana, campus on their journeys into the heavens and history. This is the story of an aeronautic odyssey of imagination, science, engineering, technology, adventure, courage, danger, and promise. It is the story of the human spirit taking flight, entwined with Purdue's legacy in aviation's history.

The Rocket Lab

Author : Michael G. Smith
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1612498426
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book The Rocket Lab written by Michael G. Smith and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rocket Lab: Maurice Zucrow, Purdue University, and America’s Race to Space focuses on the golden era of space exploration between 1946 and 1966, specifically the life and times of Purdue University’s Dr. Maurice J. Zucrow, a pioneering teacher and researcher in aerospace engineering. Zucrow taught America’s first university course in jet and rocket propulsion, wrote the field’s first textbook, and established the country’s first educational Rocket Lab. He was part of a small circle of innovators who transformed Purdue into the country’s largest engineering university, which became a cradle of astronauts. Taking a chronological and thematic approach, The Rocket Lab weaves between the local and national, drawing in rival universities, especially Harvard, MIT, Princeton, and Caltech. Also covered is Zucrow’s role in the national project system of research and development through World War II and the Cold War. At Aerojet, he was one of the country’s original project engineers, dedicated to scientific-technical expertise and the stepwise approach. He made vanguard power plant contributions to the Northrop Flying Wing, as well as the Corporal, Nike, and Atlas missiles, among others. Zucrow’s work in propulsion helped to improve the country’s arsenal of ballistic missiles and space launchers, and as a teacher, he educated the first generation of aerospace engineers. This book elevates Zucrow and the central role he played in getting the United States to space.

Hoosier Farmers - Indiana Farm Bureau

Author : Barbara Stahura
Publisher : Turner
ISBN 13 : 9781681622255
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book Hoosier Farmers - Indiana Farm Bureau written by Barbara Stahura and published by Turner. This book was released on 1999-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of the Indiana Farm Bureau 1919-1999. (From the book) "Hoosier Farmers. . . Era of Change traces our grassroots to global interests for the last 30 years. Our organization's history from the late 1960s to nearly 2000 is a whirlwind of adapting to agriculture's changing ways."

Hoosier Farmer

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Hoosier Farmer written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

For the Good of the Farmer

Author : Fred Whitford
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1557536430
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book For the Good of the Farmer written by Fred Whitford and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The key role that farming plays in the economy of Indiana today owes much to the work of John Harrison Skinner (1874-1942). Skinner was a pioneering educator and administrator who transformed the study of agriculture at Purdue University during the first decades of the twentieth century. From humble origins, occupying one building and 150 acres at the start of his career, the agriculture program grew to spread over ten buildings and 1,000 acres by the end of his tenure as its first dean. A focused, single-minded man, Skinner understood from his own background as a grain and stock farmer that growers could no longer rely on traditional methods in adapting to a rapidly changing technological and economic environment, in which tractors were replacing horses and new crops such as alfalfa and soy were transforming the arable landscape. Farmers needed education, and only by hiring the best and brightest faculty could Purdue give them the competitive edge that they needed. While he excelled as a manager and advocate for Indiana agriculture, Skinner never lost touch with his own farming roots, taking especial interest in animal husbandry. During the course of his career as dean (1907-1939), the number of livestock on Purdue farms increased fourfold, and Skinner showed his knowledge of breeding by winning many times at the International Livestock Exposition. Today, the scale of Purdue's College of Agriculture has increased to offer almost fifty programs to hundreds of students from all over the globe. However, at its base, the agricultural program in place today remains largely as John Harrison Skinner built it, responsive to Indiana but with its focus always on scientific innovation in the larger world.

At Home in the Hoosier Hills

Author : Richard F. Nation
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025334591X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book At Home in the Hoosier Hills written by Richard F. Nation and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-25 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the lives and worldviews of Indiana's southern hill-country residents during much of the 19th century. Focusing on local institutions, political, economic, and religious, it gives voice to the plain farmers of the region and reveals the world as they saw it. For them, faith in local institutions reflected a distrust of distant markets and politicians. Localism saw its expression in the Democratic Party's anti-federalist strain, in economic practices such as "safety-first" farming which focused on taking care of the family first, and in non-perfectionist Christianity. Localism was both a means of resisting changes and the basis of a worldview that helped Hoosiers of the hill country negotiate these changes.

Painting Indiana II

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Painting Indiana II written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past hundred years, Indiana agriculture has evolved from family farming to a global industry using biotechnology and satellite positioning. This magnificent collection of more than 100 works of art by ten outstanding Indiana plein air painters tells the story of that transformation, the forces that brought it about, and the impact it has had on the people, the culture, and the economy of the state. These gifted artists, selected through a competition, painted subjects as diverse as livestock farms, lumber harvesting, meat packing, farmers' markets, and huge automated dairy operations. An introduction by Rachel Berenson Perry discusses the tradition of plein air painting in Indiana. Profiles of the artists and their work conclude this visually stunning book.

Congressional Record

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1240 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Horizons, Grade 4

Author : HSP
Publisher : Hmh School
ISBN 13 : 9780153213526
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Horizons, Grade 4 written by HSP and published by Hmh School. This book was released on 2003 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Hoosier Genealogist

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hoosier Genealogist written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Complete Guide to Hardwood Plywood and Face Veneer

Author : Ang Schramm
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557532428
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (324 download)

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Download or read book A Complete Guide to Hardwood Plywood and Face Veneer written by Ang Schramm and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Through concise detail, readers will learn how different characteristics of wood develop, how face veneer and hardwood plywood are produced, and how to avoid and resolve many end product challenges, such as warpage, knife marks, and core telegraphing, by using the best storing and processing techniques. A Complete Guide to Hardwood Plywood and Face Veneer also focuses on ways to maintain customer satisfaction and explains the history, development, and application of industry standards. With an extensive bibliography, Schramm has created an essential industry resource for all involved with hardwood plywood and face veneer."--BOOK JACKET.

Prairie Farmer

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prairie Farmer written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Hoosier Magazine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hoosier Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Farmers' Review

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Farmers' Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Grand Old Man of Purdue University and Indiana Agriculture

Author : Frederick Whitford
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1557539243
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book Grand Old Man of Purdue University and Indiana Agriculture written by Frederick Whitford and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Carol Latta was the 13th member of the Purdue faculty. He became the driving force behind Purdue's world-famous School of Agriculture and initiated extension services that have lasted for more than a century. In 1890, he laid out the first permanent soil fertility field experiments, inaugurating a system of research considered one of the best in the country at that time. He administered Purdue's School of Agriculture until 1907.