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• History of agriculture in the United States

• The Stubborn Earth: American Agriculturalists on Chinese Soil, 1898-1937 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), by Randall E. Stross (HTML at UC Press)

• Forest History (partial serial archives)
• Forest History Today (most articles from 1995 onward) (partial serial archives)

• The American People and the National Forests: The First Century of the U.S. Forest Service (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2009), by Samuel P. Hays (page images at Pitt)

• The American People and the National Forests: The First Century of the U.S. Forest Service (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2009), by Samuel P. Hays (page images at Pitt)

• A History of Georgia Agriculture, 1732-1860 (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1964), by James C. Bonner (PDF at Georgia)
• A Century of Georgia Agriculture, 1850-1950 (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1954), by Willard Range (PDF at Georgia)

• Winter Wheat in the Golden Belt of Kansas: A Study in Adaptation to Subhumid Geographical Environment (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 1944), by James C. Malin (HTML at kansashistory.us)

• Agriculture in Virginia, 1607-1699 (Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet #14; Williamsburg: Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, c1957), by Lyman Carrier
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust

• My Land, My Home, My Wisconsin: The Epic Story of the Wisconsin Farm and Farm Family From Settlement Days to the Present (1978), by Robert Edward Gard (page images at Wisconsin)
• A History of Agriculture in Wisconsin (1922), by Joseph Schafer (page images at Wisconsin)

• The Stubborn Earth: American Agriculturalists on Chinese Soil, 1898-1937 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), by Randall E. Stross (HTML at UC Press)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Perspectives on 21st Century Agriculture: A Tribute to Walter J. Armbruster (Oak Brook, IL: Farm Foundation, c2007), ed. by Ronald D. Knutson, Sharron D. Knutson, and David P. Ernstes (PDF at AgEcon Search)
• Miscellaneous Publication (United States Dept. of Agriculture) (partial serial archives)
• The Arguments of Agriculture: A Casebook in Contemporary Agricultural Controversy (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c1989), by Jan Wojcik (PDF with commentary at Purdue)
• The New American Farmer: Immigration, Race, and the Struggle for Sustainability (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019), by Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern (PDF files with commentary at doi.org)
• Agriculture Information Bulletin (partial serial archives)
• Circular (US Department of Agriculture) (full serial archives)
• Miscellaneous Circular (United States Dept. of Agriculture) (partial serial archives)
• Agriculture Handbook (partial serial archives)
• Why Farmers are Poor: The Agricultural Crisis in the United States (New York: International Publishers, c1940), by Anna Rochester (page images at Cornell)
• The Granger Movement; A Study of Agricultural Organization and its Political, Economic, and Social Manifestations, 1870-1880 (reprint; Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1963), by Solon J. Buck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Department Circular (US Department of Agriculture) (full serial archives)
• Food From the Far West: or, American Agriculture, With Special Reference to Beef Production and Importation of Dead Meat from America to Great Britain (London and Edinburg: W. P. Nimmo, 1878), by James Macdonald (page images at Cornell)
• Making the Farm Pay (revised edition; Chicago: Forbes and Co., 1919), by C. C. Bowsfield
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Study Program: American Association for Agricultural Legislation (American Association for Agricultural Legislation bulletin #4; 1919), by Alonzo B. Cox (page images at Cornell)
• A War Message to the Farmer, by President Wilson, Sent to a Farmers' Conference at Urbana, Ill., January 31, 1918 (Loyalty Leaflet #4; Washington: Committee on Public Information, 1918), by Woodrow Wilson (page images here at Penn)
• Wealth From the Soil (Chicago: Forbes and Co., 1914), by C. C. Bowsfield
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• What I Know of Farming: A Series of Brief and Plain Expositions of Practical Agriculture as an Art Based Upon Science (New York: G. W. Carleton and Co., 1871), by Horace Greeley (page images at Cornell)
• The Salinity of Irrigation Water (extract from the Smithsonian Report for 1935; Washington: GPO, 1936), by Carl S. Scofield (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rôle of Agricultural Fluctuations in the Business Cycle (Michigan Business Studies v2 #9; 1930), by Vladimir P. Timoshenko (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chapters in Rural Progress (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1916), by Kenyon L. Butterfield (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Granger Movement: A Study of Agricultural Organization and its Political, Economic, and Social Manifestations, 1870-1880 (Harvard Historical Studies v19; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1913), by Solon J. Buck (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Five Acres: A Practical Guide to the Selection and Management of the Small Farm (second printing of first edition; New York: Greenberg, c1935), by M. G. Kains (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Farmer's New and Universal Handbook (page images at MOA)
• History of the Grange Movement: or, The Farmer's War Against Monopolies, by James D. McCabe (page images at MOA)
• Notes on North America, Agricultural, Economical, and Social (2 volumes; Boston: C. C. Little and J. Brown; Edinburgh and London: J. Blackwood and Sons, 1851), by Jas. F. W. Johnston (both volumes: page images at MOA)
• Private Colonization of Land (reprinted from the American Economic Review, 1918), by Richard T. Ely
  • page images at Cornell
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Proceedings, American Association for Agricultural Legislation, December 29-31, 1919 (bulletin #6; 1920), by American Association for Agricultural Legislation (page images at Cornell)

• Agriculture Fact Book, 2001-2002, by United States Department of Agriculture (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• The American Farm Book, by Richard Lamb Allen (page images at MOA)

• Farmers' Bulletin (partial serial archives)
• Farm Journal (partial serial archives)
• Annual Report, by American Farm Bureau Federation (partial serial archives)
• Agriculture Yearbook (full serial archives)
• The American Cotton Planter (full serial archives)
• The Country Gentleman (partial serial archives)
• The Cultivator and Country Gentleman (full serial archives)

• Fifty Years on the Firing Line (Chicago: The author, c1924), by James W. Witham (page images with commentary at loc.gov)

• Storage and Stability: A Modern Ever-Normal Granary (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1937), by Benjamin Graham, contrib. by Alvin Saunders Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Plight of the Share-Cropper (New York: League for Industrial Democracy, c1934), by Norman Thomas, contrib. by William Ruthrauff Amberson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

More items available under broader and related terms at left.