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CHILDHOOD EDUCATION; Farms vs. Towns; College Education; Military Service
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FAMILY
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(9)
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(39)
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(6)
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FARMHOUSE
(21)
FARMING DURING GREAT DEPRESSION
(4)
FARMING DURING KOREAN WAR
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FARMING DURING VIETNAM WAR
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FARMING DURING WWII
(5)
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(7)
Farrowing
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Father
(11)
Fences
(1)
Fertilizer
(6)
FFA
(2)
FOOD & MEALS
(20)
Food Storage
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Future of Farming
(6)
Games
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Garden
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Gasoline
(2)
Gender Roles
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Global Economy
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Global Politics
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Golf
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GOVERNMENT POLICY
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(23)
GPS
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Grain Embargo
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Great Depression
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Growing up
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(2)
Harvesting
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Hay
(4)
Hay Balers
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(5)
HEALTH
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(4)
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Herbicides
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High School
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HISTORY
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Hogs
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Home Bureau
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Home Remedies
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Horse Power
(6)
Horses
(4)
Housework
(4)
Hunting
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Hybrid Seed
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Ice Box
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Immigrants
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Immigration
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Implement Manufacturer
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Industry Standards
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Inheritance
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Integrated Pest Management
(1)
Kerosene Lamps
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Kitchen
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Labor
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Land
(10)
LAND ACQUISITION
(15)
Land Prices
(3)
Land Purchase
(3)
Lighting
(1)
Livestock
(14)
Livestock Care
(1)
Livestock Feed
(3)
Loans & Credit
(5)
Log Cabins
(1)
LOSS OF FARM
(4)
Manpower
(2)
Manure
(3)
Marketing
(9)
Marriage
(16)
Mason's
(1)
Mechanization
(3)
Migrant Labor
(2)
Military Service
(5)
Milk
(4)
Milking
(11)
Mines
(1)
Mother
(3)
Movies
(4)
Mowing
(1)
Mules
(2)
Neighbors
(12)
No-Till
(2)
Non-Farm Work
(33)
Nurse
(1)
Oats
(5)
ONE ROOM SCHOOLHOUSE
(2)
Orchard
(2)
Orchards
(1)
ORGANIZATIONS
(2)
Outhouse
(1)
Over-Production
(5)
OVERPRODUCTION
(1)
Parents
(3)
Peach Pickers
(1)
Peas
(2)
Pesticides
(1)
Pests
(1)
Phosphate
(1)
Picnics
(2)
Planters
(2)
Plastic
(1)
Plowing
(2)
Plows
(1)
Plumbing
(3)
Politics
(7)
Productivity
(8)
Pure Milk Association
(1)
Rabbits
(1)
Radio
(4)
Railroads
(1)
Raising Hogs
(1)
Rationing
(3)
Reading
(4)
RECOLLECTIONS
(6)
REFLECTIONS
(16)
RELIGION
(5)
Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC)
(2)
RETIREMENT
(8)
River
(1)
Roads
(3)
Russian Grain Embargo
(1)
Scarlet-Fever
(1)
School Activities
(7)
SCHOOL CONSOLIDATION
(4)
Seed Corn
(2)
Set-Aside
(4)
Sewing
(2)
Sheep
(1)
Shopping
(4)
Shucking Corn
(1)
Siblings
(3)
Silo
(2)
Sister
(1)
SLOW FOOD
(2)
Smokehouse
(1)
SOCIAL ACTIVITIES
(5)
Social Security
(1)
Soil
(4)
Soil Bank
(2)
Soil Conservation Service
(1)
Son
(2)
Sons
(1)
Soy Products
(1)
Soybeans
(3)
Spanish
(1)
Specialization
(1)
Specialty Crops
(1)
Sports
(2)
State Representative
(1)
Steam Power
(4)
Sugar
(1)
Surplus
(2)
Sweet Corn
(1)
Taxes
(5)
Teachers
(3)
Telephone
(2)
Tenant Farming
(20)
The Grange
(1)
THRESHING CREW
(1)
Threshing Dinners
(1)
Threshing Machine
(4)
Threshing Ring
(2)
Timber
(1)
Timber Work
(1)
Tools
(1)
Tornado
(2)
Town
(1)
TOWNS
(11)
TOYS
(1)
Tractors
(3)
Transportation
(4)
Transporting
(1)
Travel
(8)
TV
(6)
Two-Row Planters
(1)
Unions
(1)
URBANIZATION
(1)
VACATION
(1)
Values
(23)
Veal
(1)
Veterinarians
(3)
Visiting
(3)
Washer
(2)
Weather
(4)
Wedding
(1)
Weeding
(1)
Well
(1)
Wheat
(6)
Wheat Referendum
(1)
Wife
(4)
Wildlife
(1)
Women's Work
(19)
WORK
(1)
WWI
(1)
WWII
(6)
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