The columns of The Nebraska Farmer in 1877 were filled with conflicting advice on fighting grasshoppers. The May 1877 issue included a letter from Nebraskan George ...
A description of "The State of Nebraska" by Augustus F. Harvey (1830-1900) was included in the Second Annual Report of the State Board of Agriculture in 1869. Harvey ...
Traveling harvest crews have long been part of Nebraska's agricultural scene. But the ways ofthese itinerant workers change with the times, as this 1925 account ...
Val Kuska, an agricultural agent for the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad, was a notable figure in the history of Nebraska agriculture. He devoted his entire ...
Prior to the panic of 1857 there was little interest in practical agriculture in Nebraska Territory. Land ownership was sought for speculative purposes rather than for ...
This "Exaggeration" postcard boasted of Nebraska cabbages
The career of Nebraska newspaperman Will M. Maupin (1863-1948) lasted for more than sixty years and included ...
J. Sterling Morton was appointed secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture at the beginning of President Grover Cleveland's second term in 1893. The job had been ...
When Clayton Yeutter was recently sworn in as Secretary of Agriculture, he assumed anoffice previously held by two other Nebraskans. Clifford Hardin filled the post from ...
The summer of 1894 was a disastrous one for Nebraska. Faced with almost total crop loss due to drought, farmers sold or mortgaged property, turned loose livestock to ...
"Dry Farming --The Hope of the West" was the title of an article which attracted considerableattention in Nebraska in 1906. The vagaries of rainfall on the Plains had ...
It’s become a cliché that business trips to distant cities can become opportunities for behavior of the “what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas” variety. This was also ...
In the summer of 1819, Colonel Henry Atkinson led about 1100 soldiers up the MissouriRiver. Their mission: to establish a chain of military posts to keep English fur ...