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THE real history of agriculture in the southern United States began with the planting of the first crops by English colonists in Virginia in 1586, and from then onwards the pioneer farmers made their way by experiments along economic, biological and physical lines, until the present-day system of agricultural policy was evolved. Since 1908, Dr. Lewis Gray has been engaged in collecting and collating a wealth of material dealing with every aspect of this agricultural progress, and his published volumes make a permanent contribution to economic history, agricultural economics, technical agriculture and to the general social and political history of the South.
History of Agriculture in the Southern United States to 1860.
By Lewis Cecil Gray. assisted by Esther Katherine Thompson. (Publication No. 430.) Vol. 1. Pp. xix + 567. Vol. 2. Pp. ix + 569–1086. (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution, 1933.) n.p.
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History of Agriculture in the Southern United States to 1860. Nature 132, 838 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132838a0
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