animal husbandry

Examples of animal husbandry in the following topics:

• German Migration

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

• The Middle Classes

  • When sons married, fathers gave them gifts of land, livestock, or farming equipment; daughters received household goods, farm animals, and/or cash.
  • 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.

• 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 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.

• A Diverse Population

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

• Colonial Society

  • 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.

• Agricultural Settlements and Chiefdoms

  • Animal husbandry was largely absent, with only a few animals truly domesticated.
  • Dogs, honeybees, and turkeys were the first animals to be domesticated in the Americas.

• 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.

• 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.