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A reconstructed one-room 19th century schoolhouse in rural New York State. In 1930, the nation had 238,000 elementary schools, of which 149,000 were one-room schools wherein one teacher simultaneously handled all students, aged 6 to 16. The teacher was typically the daughter of a local farm family.
[15] [16] [17] The society also runs the New York State Agricultural Society Foundation, which makes grants to young scholars to promote agricultural literacy, professional skills, and provide funding for students to attend the society's annual functions. [18] In 1876, the society had an income of $41,210 (equivalent to $1,180,000 in 2023).
Daniel D.T. Moore founded the publication as Moore's Rural New Yorker in Rochester, New York in 1850. [1] Moore later became mayor of Rochester in 1865. After moving the paper to New York City (it opened a branch office at the old New York Times building at 41 Park Row by 1869), [2] financial setbacks caused him to give up the paper in the 1870s.
The term rural development is not limited to issues of developing countries. In fact many developed countries have very active rural development programs. [citation needed] Rural development aims at finding ways to improve rural lives with the participation of rural people themselves, so as to meet the required needs of rural communities. [20]
A new House Republican version announced Thursday kept the one-year Farm Bill extension and the economic aid but dropped the ethanol provision. ... “It’s a kick in the teeth to rural America ...
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There's good reason to hope for that, too, as Medtronic has many new products in the offing, some of which can turn out to be blockbusters. The company recently had more than 190 active clinical ...