Sample Mla Research Paper - "Toward A Recovery Of Nineteenth Century Farming Handbooks" Page 5
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The
paragraph
ends with a
handbooks played a significant role in distributing knowledge among farmers and in
wrap-up
sentence,
educating young farmers, as I now discuss.
“Despite
the
lack . . .”,
while
Farming’s Influence on Education. One result of the newly circulating print information
transi-
tioning to
was the “need for acquiring scientific information upon which could be based a rational
the next
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technology” that could “be substituted for the current diverse, empirical practices”
(Danhof 69). In his 1825 book Nature and Reason Harmonized in the Practice of
Husbandry, John Lorain begins his first chapter by stating that “[v]ery erroneous theories
have been propagated” resulting in faulty farming methods (1). His words here create a
framework for the rest of his book, as he offers his readers narratives of his own trials and
errors and even dismisses foreign, time-tested techniques farmers had held on to: “The
knowledge we have of that very ancient and numerous nation the Chinese, as well as the
very located habits and costumes of this very singular people, is in itself insufficient to
teach us . . .” (75). His book captures the call and need for scientific experiments to
develop new knowledge meant to be used in/on/with American soil, which reflects some
farmers’ thinking of the day.
By the 1860s, the need for this knowledge was strong enough to affect education.
John Nicholson anticipated this effect in 1820 in the “Experiments” section of his book
The Farmer’s Assistant; Being a Digest of All That Relates to Agriculture and the
Conducting of Rural Affairs; Alphabetically Arranged and Adapted for the United States:
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Perhaps it would be well, if some institution were devised, and supported
quotes
when
quotations
at the expense of the State, which would be so organized as would tend
are longer
than four-
most effectually to produce a due degree of emulation among Farmers, by
typed lines.
rewards and honorary distinctions conferred by those who, by their
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