husbandry

Examples of husbandry in the following topics:

• German Migration

  • German farmers were renowned for their highly productive animal husbandry and agricultural practices.

• Women and the Household

  • The typical woman in colonial America was expected to run a household and attend to domestic duties such as spinning, sewing, preserving food, animal husbandry, cooking, and cleaning while raising children.

• The Middle Classes

  • For instance, German immigrants were renowned for their skill with animal husbandry, and unlike women in New England, women in German immigrant communities worked in the fields.

• The Black Death

  • There was a shift from grain farming to animal husbandry.
  • Grain farming was very labor-intensive, but animal husbandry needed only a shepherd, a few dogs, and pastureland.

• The Importance of Seed Plants in Human Life

  • Animal husbandry also requires large amounts of crops.

• Agricultural Settlements and Chiefdoms

  • Animal husbandry was largely absent, with only a few animals truly domesticated.

• The Agrarian and Populist Movements

  • The Grange, or Order of the Patrons of Husbandry, was a secret order founded in 1867 to advance the social and economic needs of farmers.

• The Role of Women in the Colonies

  • The typical woman in colonial America was expected to run a household and attend to domestic duties such as spinning, sewing, preserving food, animal husbandry, cooking, cleaning, and raising children.

• America and WWI

  • In 1914, Congress passed the Smith-Lever Act, which created the Cooperative Extension Service in order to develop more effective agricultural and animal husbandry classes, programs, and use of land grant institutions such as Washington State University, Texas Agriculture & Mining, and the University of Wisconsin.

• Slavery and Empire

  • Not only were Africans well suited to tropical climates, they also brought special skills and husbandry knowledge for crops such as rice, which the British found useful.