Family farms oral history project, 1983-1984.

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Eastern Kentucky University. Family farms oral history project, 1983-1984.

Family farms oral history project, 1983-1984.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/65170834

Narrators discuss farming history from the 1830s to the 1980s, including farming before electricity, during the Great Depression, and during the drought of the early 1930s. Other topics are farm equipment and tools, labor, labor unions, insurance, the effects of urbanization, farm management, farming and women, sharecropping, farming innovations, farming methods, and the role of the government in farming, including subsidization, soil bank programs, grain embargoes, the Payment-in-Kind program, and local politics. Farmers talk about raising tobacco and other crops, insects, plant diseases, fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides, beef cattle, dairy cattle, sheep, hogs, horses, animal diseases, and veterinary services. Dairy-farming topics include milk separation, the pipeline milk system, artificial insemination, and embryo transplants. Several interviewees discuss farm life, rural life, life in coal camps, country stores, rural mail service, canning and preserving, county and state fairs, the Future Farmers of America, and Four-H clubs.

54 sound cassettes (ca. 45 hr.) : analog, stereo.

Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library