Making the corn belt : a geographical history of middle-western agriculture /

Main Author: Hudson, John C.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, ©1994.
Series:Midwestern history and culture
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Table of Contents:
  • Corn belt geography
  • Making the land
  • Finding the land
  • Zea Mays
  • The feedlot
  • Razorbacks and Poland-Chinas
  • The first corn belt
  • Corn belt sectionalism
  • Specialization and westward expansion
  • New crops and northward expansion
  • West to the Plains
  • The corn business.