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- Bureau of Reclamation is known for its construction of dams, power plants, and canals in 17 states in the west.
- Reclamation have built more than 600 dams and reservoirs.
- Hog colorea was a disease for animals. Marion Dorset discovered that hog cholera is an ultramicroscopic virus.
- Bureau of Reclamation is known for its construction of dams, power plants, and canals in 17 states in the west.
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- Upton Sinclair sent to President Roosevelt saying they should add federal inspectors to meatpacking houses and should be disguised as workers.
- Upton Sinclair published a novel called The Jungle, which exposed the workers in the Chicago meatpacking house.
- Both the Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act were passed in 1906
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- horse and mule power" was being used extensively
- they were used to pull farm implements for planting, cultivating, and harvesting.
- Some implements required more animals to get the work done
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- Extension was formalized and the smith-lever Act was passed it established the partnership between Agricultural collages and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to provide for more cooperative agriculture extension work
- when congress created Cooperative Extension service it included boys and girls club work which now is known as 4-H.
- The 4-H stands for Head, Heart, Hands, and health.
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- dramatic advances in the mechanization of farm equipment were occurring.
- increased availability of farm credit during World War I enabled farmers to buy more mechanized farm machinery than ever before.
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- the federal government resisted women's efforts to create the Women's Land Army of America
- women forged ahead and set up training camps in each state
- After receiving training, the women, known as Farmerettes, went out to work on the farms in groups and were paid the same wage as men.
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- Italian Guglielmo Marconi and Canadian Reginald Fessenden are two of the people that are in radio development.
- after years of development and expermation the first radio was broad cast was realest in the late 1920s.
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- Farm bureaus engaged in rural education or extension work for more improved crops and livestock -Thirty-four states met in Chicago, the American Farm Bureau Federation was officially established.
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- rodents damage agriculture. Rats and mice eat the food in the fields
- rodents caused more than $200 million in crop losses
- developed a highly effective rat killer called red squill from the bulb of a flowering plant. This poison was considered less dangerous to humans and other animals
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Demonstrated that drought begins when soil moisture is so diminished that vegetation is unable to absorb water from the soil rapidly enough to replace the water lost to the air by plant transpiration.
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- President Franklin D. Roosevelt formed the Great Plains Drought Area Committee to study the current Great Plains drought and to make recommendations that would make future droughts less destructive
- one thing they found was that human actions had significantly contributed to the severity of the drought. By plowing the fields to much
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- japanese beetles were one of the country's most destructive insects
- They destroyed the leaves, blossoms, and fruits of more than 275 plants, shrubs, and trees.
- the disease is caused by bacteria that Japanese beetle grubs take in as they work their way through the soil and feed on plant roots.