Harvest: an anthology of farm writing.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McMillen, Wheeler, 1893-1992, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Farm life--United States.

Farm life.

United States.

Genre:

Authors' inscriptions.

Physical Description:

xix, 424 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : Appleton-Century, [1964]

Contents:

I: 1492 and into the Eighteeenth Century Christopher Columbus turns in a crop report / Christopher Columbus

"They have turkeys, which they raise" / Spanish explorers

"Concerning such as are sown and farmed" / Thomas Harriot

"Whereof the first was William Spence" / Captain John Smith

"Much more corne was planted" / William Bradford

A rich planter records his personal secrets / William Byrd

How the pig helped to make Massachusetts free / Ben: Perley Poore

"The hogs run where they list" / Robert Beverley

A barrill of metheglin and Mr. Trenchard's soap / Charles Read

The "old farmer" preferred good cider to demon rum / The Old Farmer's Almanac Sampler

Farming was not Ben Franklin's line / Benjamin Franklin

II: The foremost farm writer of his time "Cross harrowed with a bush"

An inventory of the animals and tools at the Neck plantation

"Less sunshine never happened"

Cradles, rakers, shockers and carriers - a plan to improve he wheat harvest

"The full complement of plows were at work and going on very well"

The father of his country counts the number of peas in six pints

Washington accepts an honorary membership in the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture

"Volumes...are verbose, contradictory and bewildering"

The best places in the United States to locate a farm

The farmer of Mount Vernon indulges in a bit of barnyard humor

The President recommends creation of a national board of agriculture

A weary hero tells about a day in retirement

Washington writes out a detailed plantation plan for 1800 subsequent years / George Washington

III: A Frenchman farming in America describes the success of a Scottish immigrant History of Andrew, the Hebridean, from the Isle of Barra to farm ownership / J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur

IV: Four presidential farmers concern themselves with land, crops and livestock "My thought turn...to husbandry"

"My father's homestead...how shall I improve it?" / John Adams

Farmers, Thomas Jefferson asserts, are "the chos Farmers, Thomas Jefferson asserts, are "the chosen people of God, if..."

Jefferson suggests European plants for culture in America

"Till we have given a ram to every country"

"Though an Old man, I am but a young gardener"

Reduce erosion; plow the hillsides horizontally / Thomas Jefferson

"Disposing of the supernumerary Merino rams"

Why farmers should use oxen rather than horses / James Madison "Weeds...an admonition to me of my own faults" / John Quincy Adams

V: Early literary notables touch their pens to the soil "Old Baltus Van Tassel...a thrivings, contented, liberal-hearted farmer" / Washington Irving

John Taylor of Caroline denounces the tobacco crop and reclaims his gullies / John Taylor

The hen: "something laughably womanish" / Nathaniel Hawthorne

The cow: "she does it...with such a sanctity" / Herman Melville

Ode for an agricltural celebration / William Cullen Bryant

"When tillage begins, other arts follow" / Daniel Webster

An essay on farming / Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wanted: a $500 farm locomotive / Horace Greely

VI: Things that were done while the country was young The nation's most venerable argricultural organization drinks a few toasts / The Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture

"Did you ever pull flax?" / Isaac P. Roberts

"The wheels went down to the hubs" / Charles W. Marsh

"Planted corn...married Betsy" / Dorothy Giles

Luelling hauls his nursery from Iowa to Oregon / Kent Pellett

"I learned to yell 'buck' and 'bright'" / Jared Van Wagenen, Jr.

From the McGuffey's Readers Lesson III / William Holmes McGuffey

A boy on a farm / Charles Dudley Warner

The corn song / John Greenleaf Whitter VII: Abraham Lincoln makes his only farm speech Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society / Abraham Lincoln

VII: Eloquent voices from the great Midwest "Overturning the prairie sward" / Hamlin Garland

"Aye, the corn, the royal corn" / Richard J. Oglesby

"Once killed a squirrel with a rifle" / Edgar Watson Howe

"The foster mother of the human race" / William Dempster Hoard

"Burn down your cities and leave our farms" / "William Jennings Bryan

"The carpet of the infant becomes the blanket of the dead" - blue grass / John J. Ingalls

IX: A secretary of Agriculture in 1893 guesses at farming in 1993 American farming a hundred years hence / Jeremiah M. Rusk

X: Agriculture viewed from the lighter side The mule: "very korrupt at harte" / Josh Billings

Cornstalks and telegraph poles / Heaton, John Langdon

Kansas optimism in 1871 / Chase County leader

The pursuit of agriculture / Joseph Shafer

Cowboys celebrate the glorious fourth of July, 1895 / Bruce Siberts

Alexander Legge collects an overdue account / Forrest Crissey

The old ram and the hired man / C.E. Ladd

"Both...would have been actually lonesome" / E.R. Eastman The say we butchered hogs

The art of weaning a calf / Homer Croy

When the frost is on the punkin / James Whitcomb Riley

XI: Hogs and sheep, cattle, horses, and people The "mortage lifter" earned his title

The curious quirks of sheep behavior

Entertainment on the hoof - calf scramble and rodeo / Charles Wayland Towne and Edward Norris Wentworth

They could all get killed / Alice Marriott

An Oregon ranchman talks of horses

Ranchers, people, and problems / Herman Oliver

A cowboy's prayer / Badger Clark

XII: The story of an Iowa family's emancipation from wheat "A bond servant to wheat"

"It was a marvelous machine to me"

The worst was yet to come

"A real living for the first time" / Herbert Quick

XIII: Joseph E. Wing, the successful Ohio farmer whose practial prose sang agriculture's charms An Ohio county fair

Old Pard, the story of a collie

The farmer and his pocket

Autumn plowing match in Indiana / Joseph E. Wing

XIV: A farmer is reverent The farmer gives thanks

Prayers for the four seasons

At the graveside of a good shepherd / Samuel R. Guard

God lives on a farm / Georgia Williams Moritz

XV: Hoof and mouth diseas; the affectionate bull "The strangest and most anguished animal sounds"

"The wildest stampede imaginable"

"The clanking and groaning of a typical windmill" / Victor Schoffelmayer

The untillable hills / W.W. Christman

Corn song / Benjamin Wallace Douglass

Ballad of the prairie man / Jean comeans long

The soil man's code / Joseph Gladden Hutton

Apples / Dorothy Lee Baughner

The wise farmer / Alfred Vivian

A popular ceramic verse / Unknown

XVII: a number of farm people write of their personal experiences Bear oil makes the best biscuits / G.W. "Dub" Evans

A farmer of wildflowers / George Aiken

"He would have been a clown or a comedian" / Geore A. Sweet

I have caught my balance / George Rehm

The mailman is worthy of his hire / William Groves

Dinner for the threshing crew / Susan Frawley Eisele

The time I quit farming / Gordon Green

It's the smells

"Ducks...are always having a good time" / Romeyn Berry

Our best Christmas / Clarence S. Hill

XVIII: Professors and Scientists "Seeds...and still our wonder grows" / Victor R. Boswell

"A veritable roar of creation" / Howard Walden, 2nd

My father's hoe Liberty Hyde Bailey

"No ticks, no Texas fever" / Hugh H. Bennet

Old Sanborn Field / Clyde H. Duncan

The blending boundary / J.T. Willard

"Behind the coffin, while a golden wealth..." / Edward J. Dies

XIX: A farmside miscellany The cow: she's a miracle / Anonymous

Cows: no ore alike than snowflakes / George Moore

Inspector under the act / Creamery Journal

Smash and swush / New England

"Curves will solve the farm surplus problem!" / Farm & Fireside

"Eggs set on a Sunday will hatch all roosters" / Charles Morrow Wilson

"The automobile will endure" / Breeder's Gazette

The plow: "power and authority" / Rachel Peden

XX: What is a farmer? And other slants Abe Martin comments on farmers

More Abe Martin sayings / Kin Hubbard

"Where his bacon came from" / M.L. Wilson

On being country minded / E.R. McIntyre

A farm creed / Henry Ward Beecher

"The land belongs to the future" / Willa Cather

"It was a typical farmer's meeting"

"Something about these farmers" / George Moore

A tribute to Stockman / Herbert W. Mumford

Love your farm - and be proud of it / Clarence H. Poe

Hitch science to our plows! / J.C. Ford

The ultimate conservator

Tests of a good farmer / Liberty Hyde Bailey

What is a farmer? / Doris T. West

XXI: Louis Bromfield on Malabar Farm, "Where there was once a little, now we have abundance" Of green hills and valleys

A hym to hawgs / Louis Bromfield.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gift of the author; inscribed.

OCLC:

2335752