Over-fulfilled Expectations: A Life and an Era in Rural AmericaIowa State University Press, 1991 - 300 Seiten During the 1920s, the United States, suddenly aware of its potential following success in World War I, offered bright promise to its youth and especially to its rural youth. Harold Breimyer, the author of this memoir, was one of those rural youth- an Ohio farm boy. In this evocative memoir, told in the third person, Breimyer recounts how he and his fellows were encouraged to form high expectations for themselves, and how they fulfilled them. |
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... crops , they could double the acreage . In the process they also would cut in half their machinery in- vestment cost per acre . Fred Breimyer's farm was about average in size and cropping pat- tern . On its 70 acres , which included 5 ...
... crops , they could double the acreage . In the process they also would cut in half their machinery in- vestment cost per acre . Fred Breimyer's farm was about average in size and cropping pat- tern . On its 70 acres , which included 5 ...
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... crops were cultivated row crops and therefore subject to erosion of soil . Thus , reducing their acreage also cut soil losses . The decision after Hoosac Mills was to turn the whole scheme up- side down . Farmers ' contracts would ...
... crops were cultivated row crops and therefore subject to erosion of soil . Thus , reducing their acreage also cut soil losses . The decision after Hoosac Mills was to turn the whole scheme up- side down . Farmers ' contracts would ...
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... crop were $ 3.00 and $ 2.35 respectively . One wrinkle was to provide for some annual modification of the statutory prices ... crops , they will be eligible for payments at the rate of one - third the target price on the normal yield for ...
... crop were $ 3.00 and $ 2.35 respectively . One wrinkle was to provide for some annual modification of the statutory prices ... crops , they will be eligible for payments at the rate of one - third the target price on the normal yield for ...
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Prelude | 3 |
A Vignette | 7 |
Hometown in the 1920s | 13 |
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