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After 1800, cotton became the chief crop in southern plantations, and the chief American export. After 1840, industrialization and urbanization opened up lucrative domestic markets. The number of farms grew from 1.4 million in 1850, to 4.0 million in 1880, and 6.4 million in 1910; then started to fall, dropping to 5.6 million in 1950 and 2.2 ...
A cultivator (also known as a rotavator) is a piece of agricultural equipment used for secondary tillage. One sense of the name refers to frames with teeth (also called shanks ) that pierce the soil as they are dragged through it linearly .
<1800 A culinary apple of second-rate quality. Cooking, eating Calville Rouge D'Hiver [12] [7] [58] [28] France <1800 A culinary apple of second-rate quality. Width 75 mm (3.0 in), height 76 mm (3.0 in). Stalk long. Flesh white, soft, juicy, sweet. Cider, cooking, eating Pick early October; use December–March Calville Saint Sauveur [28] [16 ...
The earliest cultivated plant in North America is the bottle gourd, remains of which have been excavated at Little Salt Spring, Florida dating to 8000 BCE. [7] Squash (Cucurbita pepo var. ozarkana) is considered to be one of the first domesticated plants in the Eastern Woodlands, having been found in the region about 5000 BCE, though possibly not domesticated in the region until about 1000 BCE.
In the period of the Neolithic Revolution, roughly 8000-4000 BCE, [11] Agro pastoralism in India included threshing, planting crops in rows and storing grain in granaries. [3] [12] Barley —either of two or of six rows— and wheat cultivation—along with the rearing of cattle, sheep and goat—was visible in Mehrgarh by 8000-6000 BCE.
During the 1800s, the British ... In cases where estates were not held by landlords, but by the cultivators in common tenancy, the state demand was fixed at 95% of ...
They built a three-story manufacturing facility, producing check rowers, stalk cutters, corn planters, cultivators and hand tools. [4] In 1883 the company was capitalized at US$200.000 and renamed the Avery Planter Company. [1] Page from the Avery Company catalog describing their "65hp Single Cylinder Straight Flue Steam Traction Engine"
In the late 1800s, several countries in the Islamic world and its periphery banned cannabis, with the Khedivate of Egypt banning the importation of cannabis in 1879, [47] [48] Morocco strictly regulating cannabis cultivation and trade (while allowing several Rif tribes to continue production) in 1890, [49] and the Kingdom of Greece banning ...