Oral history interview with Carl P. Johnson, 1978 July 10.

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Oral history interview with Carl P. Johnson, 1978 July 10.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/181208422

Carl Johnson discusses the immigration of his relatives from Norway; the acquisition of the farm; farm machinery and the replacement of horses with tractors; cooperation between farmers; various entertainments; the establishment of the Farm Bureau in Sioux Rapids; drainage tiling and soil conservation; World War I; the arrival of electricity and phone service to rural Buena Vista County; recollections of school and childhood chores; the farmers holiday and the National Farmers Organization; anecdotes about gypsies passing through; etc.

Transcript: 11 leaves.Sound recording: 1 sound cassette.

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Earthwatch-SHSI Oral History Project.

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"Folklife in Rural Iowa" was an oral history project conducted in the summer of 1978 and funded by Earthwatch, a national organization encouraging public participation in field research. Interviewers worked in 2 teams under the direction of field director Rebecca Conard and assistant field director Michael Mendelson. Peter Harstad, director of the State Historical Society of Iowa, served as the project's principal investigator. From the description of Oral history interviews of the E...

Iowa Farm Bureau Federation

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The first county farm bureaus in the state of Iowa were organized in Clinton and Scott counties on September 1, 1912. The purpose of the farm bureaus was to coordinate the agricultural activities of the county and to work in cooperation with other local farm associations. The farm bureaus also employed a county agent to act as leader, and it was his responsibility to conduct agricultural demonstrations, offer advice to individual farmers, conduct agricultural meetings, and work with...

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Futterman, Allan,

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Johnson, Carl P., b. 1904,

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National Farmers Organization (U.S.)

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The National Farmers Organization (NFO) was founded in 1955 to combat low prices farmers received from food processors. The NFO argued that farmers made up nine percent of the nation's population but only earned four percent of its income. The early history of the NFO was marked by radicalism; farmers organized withholding actions to increase prices, then staged boycotts and protests. The more aggressive aspects of the organization's activities receded by 1979, when its focus turned to collectiv...

Mendelson, Michael

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