Transforming Rural Life Dairying Families and Agricultural Change, 1820-1885 |
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| Author:
| McMurry, Sally Ann |
| Series title: | Revisiting Rural America Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8018-4889-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1995 |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $111.00 |
Book Description:
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One of the many changes that transformed nineteenth-century agrarian life was the shift in the dairy industry from home to factory butter- and cheesemaking. In the early nineteenth century virtually all such work took place on the family farm. But after about 1860, production began to move from farms to local ''crossroads factories.'' In ......
One of the many changes that transformed nineteenth-century agrarian life was the shift in the dairy industry from home to factory butter- and cheesemaking. In the early nineteenth century virtually all such work took place on the family farm. But after about 1860, production began to move from farms to local ''crossroads factories.'' In ......