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FARMING DURING GREAT DEPRESSION
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(11)
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CHURCH
(10)
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Land
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Corn
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Farms vs. Towns
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Heating
(9)
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(9)
Children's Work
(8)
Crops
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(8)
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RETIREMENT
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SCHOOL CONSOLIDATION
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(8)
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(7)
Attitude Towards Education
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Children's Education
(7)
Electrification
(7)
Ethnicity
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Gasoline
(7)
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(7)
Taxes
(7)
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(7)
Community Activities
(6)
Death
(6)
Eggs
(6)
High School
(6)
Housework
(6)
Land Prices
(6)
Livestock Care
(6)
Oats
(6)
Picnics
(6)
Politics
(6)
Sugar
(6)
Teachers
(6)
Threshing Machine
(6)
Unions
(6)
Continuing Education
(5)
Crop Rotation
(5)
Curriculum
(5)
Dances
(5)
Draft
(5)
Global Economy
(5)
Great Depression
(5)
Hemp
(5)
Hybrid Seed
(5)
Manure
(5)
Mechanization
(5)
ONE ROOM SCHOOLHOUSE
(5)
RELIGION
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Siblings
(5)
TV
(5)
Weather
(5)
Automobiles
(4)
Changes in Neighbors
(4)
Children's Activities
(4)
Combines
(4)
Dating
(4)
Draft Deferment
(4)
Groceries
(4)
Hay
(4)
Immigration
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Mother
(4)
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(4)
Over-Production
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Roads
(4)
Steam Power
(4)
Threshing Ring
(4)
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4-H
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AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES
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Binders
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Canning
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Cards
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(3)
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Coal Stove
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COMMUNICATIONS
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Environment
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FFA
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Future of Farming
(3)
Games
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Global Politics
(3)
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Home Remedies
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THRESHING CREW
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Attitude Towards Government
(2)
Banks
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Beans
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Butchery
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(2)
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Community Service
(2)
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Gas Stove
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Grain
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(2)
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(2)
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HISTORY
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(2)
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LOSS OF FARM
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Mail
(2)
Meat
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NRA
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ORGANIZATIONS
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(2)
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Pure Milk Association
(2)
Railroads
(2)
Reading
(2)
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Soil
(2)
Son
(2)
Sweet Corn
(2)
Swimming
(2)
Telephone
(2)
Trucking
(2)
War Bonds
(2)
Wood Stove
(2)
1920-1930
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1930-1940
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1940-1950
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1950-1960
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1960-1970
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Accident
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Accounting
(1)
Acreage
(1)
Anhydrous
(1)
Attitude Towards Work
(1)
Baling
(1)
Bank
(1)
Banker
(1)
Barley
(1)
Barn Raising
(1)
Black Lung
(1)
Blackberries
(1)
Book keeping
(1)
Bottomland
(1)
Bowling
(1)
Bread
(1)
Bunk Wagons
(1)
Bus
(1)
Butter
(1)
Carpentry
(1)
CCC
(1)
Changes in Churches
(1)
Changes In Family
(1)
Changes In Farm Work
(1)
Changes in Towns
(1)
Cherries
(1)
Chisel Plows
(1)
Coal Mines
(1)
Coffee
(1)
COLLGE EDUCATION
(1)
Construction
(1)
Corn Pickers
(1)
Corn-Pickers
(1)
Cradles
(1)
Crop diseases
(1)
DDT
(1)
Deferment
(1)
Del Monte
(1)
Description
(1)
Disc Plows
(1)
Drought
(1)
Dryer
(1)
Ducks
(1)
Electric Stove
(1)
Electrician
(1)
Errands
(1)
Factory
(1)
Family Background Marketing
(1)
Farm Facilities
(1)
Farm Size
(1)
Farm Unions
(1)
Farmers' Market
(1)
FARMING DURING VIETNAM WAR
(1)
FARMING DURING WWI
(1)
Feed Crops
(1)
Fences
(1)
Flour
(1)
Forestry
(1)
Genetics
(1)
Germany
(1)
Great Influenza Epidemic
(1)
Grocery Store
(1)
Hardware Store
(1)
Harvest
(1)
Hay Balers
(1)
Hay Baling
(1)
Honey
(1)
Ice Box
(1)
Insurance
(1)
Internet
(1)
Ironworker
(1)
Jews
(1)
Kitchen
(1)
Laws
(1)
Lighting
(1)
Lumbering
(1)
Milk
(1)
Mills
(1)
Miner
(1)
Mules
(1)
Music
(1)
Non-Farm-Related Work
(1)
Organic Farming
(1)
OVERPRODUCTION
(1)
Parochial School
(1)
Pears
(1)
Pests
(1)
Pets
(1)
Phosphate
(1)
Pleurisy
(1)
Poultry
(1)
Preaching
(1)
Radio
(1)
Refrigeration
(1)
Refrigerator
(1)
Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC)
(1)
Rheumatic Fever
(1)
Rice
(1)
River
(1)
Roller Skating
(1)
Scotland
(1)
Scythes
(1)
Seed Corn
(1)
Set-Aside
(1)
Settlement
(1)
Sewing
(1)
Shucking Corn
(1)
Skunk
(1)
Smokehouse
(1)
Soil Bank
(1)
Soil Conservation Service
(1)
Sons
(1)
Specialty Crops
(1)
Spreader
(1)
State Fair
(1)
Straw
(1)
Stress
(1)
Sugar Maple
(1)
Sulfur
(1)
Switchboard
(1)
The Grange
(1)
Threshing Dinners
(1)
VACATION
(1)
Victory Gardens
(1)
Vinegar
(1)
Vineyard
(1)
Walking
(1)
Water
(1)
Wedding
(1)
Wine
(1)
WORK
(1)
WPA
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