Delaware Farming (DE) (Images of America)
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (507 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0738544493 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-28 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Sussex County, Delaware, is the birthplace of the modern broiler chicken industry, beginning with an accidental experiment on Cecile Steele’s Ocean View farm in 1923. This agricultural heritage continues; 42 percent of Delaware’s land mass remains in farms, despite significant land development since World War II.. In 1855, the first cannery on the Delmarva Peninsula started operations in Dover, inaugurating a still viable and active agricultural industry. Delaware’s agricultural traditions have helped define the state for generations. Farmers and millers were part of the Breadbasket of the Revolution, providing critically important wheat and flour for George Washington’s armies. In the 19th century, Delaware became known as the Peach State, shipping fresh peaches by rail to urban markets throughout the eastern United States
Royalties from the sale of this book will be donated to the Delaware Agricultural Museum and Village. He has worked closely with Delaware’s farmers and agricultural industry since 1968 and has gathered an engaging collection of historical photographs from state and university archives, museums, and farm family scrapbooks. . Ed Kee, a fifth-generation Delawarean, is a crops specialist and agricultural program leader for the University of Delaware
About the Author Ed Kee, a fifth-generation Delawarean, is a crops specialist and agricultural program leader for the University of Delaware. He has worked closely with Delaware’s farmers and agricultural industry since 1968 and has gathered an engaging collection of historical photographs from state and university archives, museums, and farm family scrapbooks. Royalties from the sale of this book will be donated to the Delaware Agricultural Museum and Village.
"FINE, RICHLY ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF DELAWARE FARMING" according to James H. Lister. Since Delaware is one of the smallest states manypeople throughout the United States do not regard Delawareas a farming state. This excellently illustrated Delaware agriculturalhistory should totally destroy that false assumption. My primary interest in this book was due to the factthat the original creator of my Lister ancestral family was awheat farmer around Odessa, Delaware in New Castle County. Thisbook entitled "Delaware Farming" shows a photograph of theOdessa boat landing in 1899. This would have been the generalboat port shipping area for agricultural products to locationssuch as Philadelphia and Baltimore. O