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Farm Bureau office in Pinckney, Michigan 1935 FDR remarks for the American Farm Bureau Federation on agriculture during the Great Depression. The American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF), more informally called the American Farm Bureau (AFB) or simply the Farm Bureau, is a United States–based 501(c)(5) tax-exempt agricultural organization and lobbying group. [1]
In 1905, the California legislature passed the University Farm Bill, which called for the establishment of a farm school for the University of California (at the time, Berkeley was the sole campus of the university). [19] The commission took a year to select a site for the campus, a tiny town then known as Davisville. [19]
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July 4 – Frederick Seitz, solid-state physicist (died 2008) August 9 – William A. Fowler, physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983 (died 1995) August 24 – Durward Kirby, American television host and announcer (died 2000) September 21 – Clair Engle, U.S. Senator from California from 1959 to 1964 (died 1964)
California women had the right to own property in their own name since the first California Constitution in 1850. In 1911 California voters, in a special election, narrowly granted women the right to vote, nine years before the 19th Amendment enfranchised women nationally in 1920, but over 41 years later than the women of Wyoming had been ...
The Rise of the Wheat State: A History of Kansas Agriculture, 1861- 1986 (1987) 16 topical essays by experts. online; Hurt, R. Douglas. "The Agricultural and Rural History of Kansas." Kansas History 2004 27(3): 194–217. ISSN 0149-9114 Fulltext: in Ebsco; Larson, Henrietta M. The wheat market and the farmer in Minnesota, 1858–1900 (1926 ...
Pages in category "1911 establishments in California" The following 100 pages are in this category, out of 100 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The income of the farm sector almost doubled from $4.5 billion in 1932 to $8.9 billion in 1941 just before the war. [73] Meanwhile, food prices rose 22% in nine years from an index of 31.5 in 1932, to 38.4 in 1941. [74] The Farm Security Administration used photography to document poverty in rural America.