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Sources Consulted

The following sources were used to compile the Bibliography of Maryland Agriculture. Although some of the publications were consulted for their reference value, most were examined for relevant items in their bibliographies. Much of this list was derived from a source list compiled by Kansas State University.

(arranged alphabetically by author)

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M |
N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

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Abbot, Richard H. “The Agricultural Press Views the Yeoman: 1819-1859.” Agricultural History 42 (1968): 35-48.

Atack, Jeremy, and Fred Bateman. To Their Own Soil: Agriculture in the Antebellum North. The Henry A. Wallace Series on Agricultural History and Rural Studies. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1987.

Atherton, Lewis Eldon. The Southern Country Store, 1800-1860. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1949.

Atkeson, Mary Meek. The Woman on the Farm. The Century Rural Life Books. New York: Century, 1924.

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Bailey, L. H., ed. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture; A Popular Survey of Agricultural Conditions, Practices and Ideals in the United States and Canada, 4 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1907.

Benedict, Murray Reed. Farm Policies of the United States, 1790-1950; A Study of their Origins and Development. New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1953.

Bercaw, Louise O. Refrigeration and Cold Storage; A Selected List of References Covering the Years 1915-1924 and the Early Part of 1925. Bibliographical Contributions, no. 10. Washington, DC: Department of Agriculture, 1925.

———. Rural Standards of Living: A Selected Bibliography. Miscellaneous Publication, no. 116. Washington, DC: U.S Department of Agriculture, 1931.

Bercaw, Louise O., and Esther Marie Colvin. Bibliography on the Marketing of Agricultural Products. Miscellaneous Publication, no. 150. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1933.

Bercaw, Louise O., and Annie M. Hannay. Bibliography on Land Utilization, 1918-36. Miscellaneous Publication, no. 284. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1938.

Bercaw, Louise O., Annie M. Hannay, and Nellie G. Larson. Corn in the Development of the Civilization of the Americas: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography. New York: Burt Franklin, 1940.

Besterman, Theodore. Agriculture; A Bibliography of Bibliographies. Besterman World Bibliographies. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1971.

Bidwell, Percy Wells, and John I. Falconer. History of Agriculture in the Northern United States, 1620-1860. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication, no. 358. Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1925. Reprint, New York: P. Smith, 1941.

Binks, Hugh E. Animal Health Programs in Maryland 1880-1986. Annapolis: Maryland Department of Agriculture, 1990.

Blanchard, J. Richard, and Lois Farrell, eds. Guide To Sources for Agricultural and Biological Research. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.

Blanchard, Joy Richard, and Harald Ostvold. Literature of Agricultural Research. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1958.

Bowers, Douglas, and Everett Eugene Edwards. A List of References for the History of Agriculture in the United States, 1790-1840. Davis: Agricultural History Center, University of California, Davis, 1969.

Brugger, Robert J. Maryland: A Middle Temperament, 1634-1980. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.

Buck, Salon J. The Granger Movement; A Study of Agricultural Organization and Its Political, Economic and Social Manifestations, 1870-1880. Harvard Historical Studies, vol. 19. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1913.

Burchfield, Laverne. Our Rural Communities, a Guidebook To Published Materials on Rural Problems. Chicago: Public Administration Service, 1947.

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Cannon, Grant G. Great Men of Modern Agriculture. New York: Macmillan, 1963.

Carman, Harry J. American Husbandry. New York: Columbia University Press, 1939.

Carr, Lois Green. Robert Cole’s World: Agriculture and Society in Early Maryland. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.

Cochrane, Willard Wesley. The Development of American Agriculture: A Historical Analysis. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1979.

Cole, William E., and Hugh Price Crowe. Recent Trends in Rural Planning. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1937.

Craven, Avery Odelle. Soil Exhaustion as a Factor in the Agricultural History of Virginia and Maryland, 1606-1860. Gloucester, MA: P. Smith, 1965.

Crawford, Nelson Antrim, and Charles Elkins Rogers. Agricultural Journalism. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926.

Curtin, Philip D., Grace S. Brush, and George W. Fisher. Discovering the Chesapeake: The History of An Ecosystem. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

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Demaree, Albert Lowther. The American Agricultural Press, 1819-1860. Columbia University Studies in the History of American Agriculture, no. 8. Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, 1941.

Dethloff, Henry C. A List of References for the History of the Farmers’ Alliance and the Populist Party. Davis: Agricultural History Center, University of California, Davis, 1973.

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Ebeling, Walter. The Fruited Plain: The Story of American Agriculture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979.

Edwards, Everett Eugene. A Bibliography of the History of Agriculture in the United States. Miscellaneous Publication, no. 84. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1930.

———. References on Agriculture in the Life of the Nation. Washington, DC: U.S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics, 1939.

Edwards, Helen H. A List of References for the History of Agriculture in the Southern United States. Davis: Agricultural History Center, University of California, 1971.

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Fera, Darla. Women in American Agriculture: A Selected Bibliography. Library List, no. 103. [Washington, DC?]: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1977.

Fite, Gilbert Courtland. Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture, 1865-1980. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984.

Friedberger, Mark. Farm Families and Change in Twentieth-Century America. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988.

Fusonie, Alan M. Heritage of American Agriculture: A Bibliography of Pre-1860 Imprints. Library List - National Agricultural Library, no. 98. Beltsville, MD: U.S. Deptartment of Agriculture, 1975.

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Gardner, Charles Milo. The Grange, Friend of the Farmer: A Concise Reference History of America’s Oldest Farm Organization, and the Only Rural Fraternity in the World, 1867-1947. Washington, DC: National Grange, 1949.

Gates, Jane Potter. Periodicals Pertaining to Alternative Farming Systems: September 1990. Beltsville, MD: National Agricultural Library, 1990.

Gates, Paul Wallace. The Farmer's Age: Agriculture, 1815-1860. The Economic History of the United States, vol. 3. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1960.

———. History of Public Land Law Development. New York: Arno Press, 1979.

Gillette, John Morris. Rural Sociology. New York: Macmillan, 1926.

Goldfield, David R. Cotton Fields and Skyscrapers: Southern City and Region, 1607-1980. Baton Rouge: Lousiana State University Press, 1982.

Gray, Lewis Cecil. History of Agriculture in the Southern United States to 1860. Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1958.

Guither, Harold D., and Harold G. Halcrow. The American Farm Crisis: An Annotated Bibliography With Analytical Introductions. Resources on Contemporary Issues. Ann Arbor, MI: Pierian Press, 1988.

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Hall, Carl W. Bibliography of Agricultural Engineering Books. ASAE Publication, no. 8-76. St. Joseph, MI: American Society of Agricultural Engineers, 1976.

Hall, Carl W., and Wallace C. Olsen. The Literature of Agricultural Engineering. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992.

Hamill, W.S. The Agricultural Industry of Maryland. Baltimore: Maryland Development Bureau, 1934.

Hatcher, O. Latham. Rural Girls in the City for Work: A Study Made for the Southern Women’s Educational Alliance. Richmond, VA: Garrett and Massie, 1930.

Hauck, Roland D., and Marcia Bystrom, comps. 15N: A Selected Bibliography for Agricultural Scientists. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1970.

Holmes, Roy Hinman. Rural Sociology: The Family-Farm Institution. New York: Mcgraw-Hill, 1932.

Hurt, R. Douglas. American Agriculture: A Brief History. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1994.

———. Indian Agriculture in America: Prehistory to the Present. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1987.

Hurt, R. Douglas, and Mary Ellen Hurt. The History of Agricultural Science and Technology: An International Annotated Bibliography. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, vol. 1371. New York: Garland, 1994.

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Jenkins, Mary, and Eben Jenkins. The First Hundred Years of the Maryland State Grange, 1874-1974. N.p.: Maryland State Grange, 1974.

Jensen, Joan M. Loosening the Bonds: Mid-Atlantic Farm Women, 1750-1850. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.

Jensen, Richard D., Connie Lamb, and Nathan M. Smith., comps. Agricultural and Animal Sciences Journals and Serials: An Analytical Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1986.

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Kellogg, Charles E., and David C. Knapp. The College of Agriculture: Science in the Public Service. The Carnegie Series in American Education. New York: Mcgraw-Hill, 1966.

Kile, Merton Orville. The Farm Bureau Through Three Decades. Baltimore: Waverly Press, 1948.

Kirkland, Edward Chase. A History of American Economic Life. Rev. ed. Crofts American History Series. New York: F.S. Crofts, 1939.

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Lofton, M.C. Joëlle Fignolé. Bittersweet Perspectives on Maryland’s Extension Service. Princess Anne, MD: School of Agricultural Sciences, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, 1990.

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Maman, Marie, and Thelma H. Tate. Women in Agriculture: A Guide To Research. Garland Reference Library of Social Science, v. 908. New York: Garland, 1996.

Marti, Donald B. To Improve the Soil and the Mind: Agricultural Societies, Journals, and Schools in the Northeastern States, 1791-1865. Ann Arbor, MI: Published for the Agricultural History Society and the Department of Communication Arts, New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, by University Microfilms International, 1979.

Maryland Board of World’s Fairs Managers. Maryland, Its Resources, Industries and Institutions. Baltimore: Sun Job Printing office, 1893.

Mcgrain, John W. An Agricultural History of Baltimore County, Maryland. Perry Hall, MD: [J. Mcgrain?], 1990.

Metzger, Jacob Elry. Agricultural Progress in a Typical Maryland Community, 1865-1925. College Park, MD: n.p., 1925.

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National Agricultural Library. Dictionary Catalog of the National Agricultural Library, 1862-1965. 93 vols. New York: Towman and Littlefield, 1967.

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Pellett, Frank Chapman. History of American Beekeeping. Ames, IA: Collegiate Press, 1938.

Pinchot, Gifford. “How Conservation Began in the United States.” Agricultural History 11, no. 4 (1937): 255-265.

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Rachie, Kenneth O. The Millets and Minor Cereals; A Bibliography of the World Literature on Millets, Pre‑1930 and 1964‑69, and of All Literature on Other Minor Cereals. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1974.

Rasmussen, Wayne David. Agriculture in the United States: A Documentary History. 4 vols. New York: Random House, 1975.

———. Readings in the History of American Agriculture. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1960.

Robbins, Roy Marvin. Our Landed Heritage; The Public Domain, 1776-1936. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1942.

Rogin, Leo. The Introduction of Farm Machinery in Its Relation to the Productivity of Labor in the Agriculture of the United States During the Nineteenth Century. University of California Publications in Economics, vol. 9. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1931.

Romaine, Lawrence B. A Guide to American Trade Catalogs, 1744-1900. New York: R. R. Bowker, 1960.

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Schafer, Joseph. The Social History of American Agriculture. New York: Macmillan, 1936.

Schlebecker, John T. Bibliography of Books and Pamphlets on the History of Agriculture in the United States, 1607-1967. Santa Barbara, CA: A[merican] B[Ibliographical] C[Enter]--Clio, 1969.

———. “Dairy Journalism: Studies in Successful Farm Journalism.” Agricultural History 31, no. 4 (1957): 23-33.

———. Whereby We Thrive: A History of American Farming, 1607-1972. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1975.

Schor, Joel, and Cecil Harvey. A List of References for the History of Black Americans in Agriculture, 1619-1974. Davis: Agricultural History Center, University of California, 1975.

Sharrer, G. Terry. 1001 References for the History of American Food Technology. Davis: Agricultural History Center, University of California, 1978.

Shideler, James H. Farm Crisis, 1919-1923. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1957.

Smith, Herbert A. “The Early Forestry Movement in the United States.” Agricultural History 12, no. 4 (1938): 326-346.

Street, James Harry. The New Revolution in the Cotton Economy; Mechanization and Its Consequences. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1957.

Stunz, Stephen Conrad. List of the Agricultural Periodicals of the United States and Canada Published During the Century July 1810 to July 1910. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1941.

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Taylor, Carl Cleveland. The Farmers’ Movement, 1620-1920. American Sociology Series. [New York]: American Book Company, 1953.

Thompson, Edgar T., comp. The Plantation: A Bibliography. Washington, DC: Pan American Union, 1957.

Thompson, James Westfall. A History of Livestock Raising in the United States, 1607-1860. Agricultural History Series, no. 5. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1942. Reprint, Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1973.

True, Alfred Charles. A History of Agricultural Education in the Untied States 1785-1925. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1929.

Trueblood, Michael A. An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Productivity Literature. Staff Paper P94-26. St. Paul, MN: University of Minnesota, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, College of Agriculture, 1994. http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/mn/p94-26.pdf.

Tucher, Andie. Agriculture in America, 1622-1860: Printed Works in the Collections of the American Philosophical Society, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Library Company of Philadelphia. Americana to 1860, vol. 2. New York: Garland, 1984.

Tucker, Gilbert Milligan. American Agricultural Periodicals; An Historical Sketch. Albany, NY: Privately Printed, 1909.

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U.S. Department of Agriculture Poultry Committee. Bibliography of Poultry Publications. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1938.

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Weintraub, Irwin. Black Agriculturists in the United States, 1865‑1973: An Annotated Bibliography. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Libraries, 1976.

Whitehead, Vivian B. Women in American Farming: A List of References. Davis: Agricultural History Center, University of California, Davis, 1987.

Whitney, Milton. Soil and Civilization; A Modern Concept of the Soil and the Historical Development of Agriculture. Library of Modern Sciences. New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1925.

Wiser, Vivian. "The Movement for Agricultural Improvement in Maryland, 1785-1865." 3 vols. PhD diss., University of Maryland, 1963.

———. Two Centuries of American Agriculture. Washington, DC: Agricultural History Society, 1976.

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