The Farmers Game

Author : David Vaught
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1421408333
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Farmers' Game written by David Vaught and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journey through the national pastime’s roots in America’s small towns and wide-open spaces: “An absorbing read.” —The Tampa Tribune In the film Field of Dreams, the lead character gives his struggling farming community a magical place where the smell of roasted peanuts gently wafts over the crowded grandstand on a warm summer evening, just as the star pitcher takes the mound. In The Farmers’ Game, David Vaught examines the history and character of baseball through a series of essay-vignettes—presenting the sport as essentially rural, reflecting the nature of farm and small-town life. Vaught does not deny or devalue the lively stickball games played in the streets of Brooklyn, but he sees the history of the game and the rural United States as related and mutually revealing. His subjects include nineteenth-century Cooperstown, the playing fields of Texas and Minnesota, the rural communities of California, the great farmer-pitcher Bob Feller, and the notorious Gaylord Perry. Although—contrary to legend—Abner Doubleday did not invent baseball in a cow pasture in upstate New York, many fans enjoy the game for its nostalgic qualities. Vaught’s deeply researched exploration of baseball’s rural roots helps explain its enduring popularity.

Author : Bryan L. Jones
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496213955
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Farming Game written by Bryan L. Jones and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In cantankerous opinions, hard-headed advice, and free-swinging sketches of real farmers, Bryan Jones addresses everyone who feels the pull of the land. He accepts the emotional appeal of "going back to the land" and then takes the unconventional stand that, above all, farming can be a good way to make money. Against the grain of public policy that, he maintains, encourages big agriculture, Jones works out how a shrewd, stubborn small farmer can still make a go of it. His keen-eyed sketches of farmers at work show the variety of ways a farmer may succeed or fail. Even his own neighborhood, dominated by thousands of acres of corn and high technology, is peopled with "scalper" who makes a living in the cattle business with little more stake than a gooseneck trailer, a telephone, and his native wits; the sheep man who secretly grows rich while looking poor and raising an animal that other farmer disdain; the experimenter who never turns a nickel himself, but whose successful innovations are readily adopted by his neighbors; the hog raiser who makes a large family pay. The heart of the book is the primer for novices--and for city folk who dream of farming. Jones emphasizes the practicalities of farm finance and recommends sidelines for the beginner--welding, giving guitar lessons, keeping the books for a local elevator--as an alternative to starving. He urges newcomers to start small and to be sure that farming is something they really want to do. To interested bystanders, The Farming Game offers one farmer's audacious, stimulating, and entertaining view of American agriculture today.

Author : J. P. Makeham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521426794
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Farming Game Now written by J. P. Makeham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-03-26 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only applied textbook on farm management specifically designed for Australian agricultural students and farmers confronts the complexities of the 1990s wherein farm businesses are forced to adapt to technological changes and new financial pressures.

Author : Bill Malcolm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139445061
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Farming Game written by Bill Malcolm and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-23 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Farming Game is the agricultural management text for the twenty-first century. The central theme underpinning this text is that the farm management context is most usefully and reliably managed by the application of economic ways of thinking. In this text, the practice of farm management is approached in an integrated way, leaving no significant issues about management uncovered. Finance, investment, decision analysis, management, economic thinking, growth, risk and marketing are critical and exciting domains of interest that are brought together to give the reader a thorough and comprehensive understanding of how the farming situation is best analysed and managed. The text is essential reading for those who seek to manage agricultural businesses well and for those with interest throughout agricultural supply chains who need to understand the character of farms as the core of agribusiness systems.

Author : Bryan Jones
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 9780345354679
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Farming Game written by Bryan Jones and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1987-08-12 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses modern farming, provides sketches of some typical farmers, and looks at farm financing and how to get started as a farmer

Author : David Vaught
Publisher : JHUP
ISBN 13 : 9781421407555
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Farmers' Game written by David Vaught and published by JHUP. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who has watched the film Field of Dreams can’t help but be captivated by the lead character’s vision. He gives his struggling farming community a magical place where the smell of roasted peanuts gently wafts over the crowded grandstand on a warm summer evening just as the star pitcher takes the mound. Baseball, America’s game, has a dedicated following and a rich history. Fans obsess over comparative statistics and celebrate men who played for legendary teams during the "golden age" of the game. In The Farmers' Game, David Vaught examines the history and character of baseball through a series of essay-vignettes. He presents the sport as essentially rural, reflecting the nature of farm and small-town life. Vaught does not deny or devalue the lively stickball games played in the streets of Brooklyn, but he sees the history of the game and the rural United States as related and mutually revealing. His subjects include nineteenth-century Cooperstown, the playing fields of Texas and Minnesota, the rural communities of California, the great farmer-pitcher Bob Feller, and the notorious Gaylord Perry. Although—contrary to legend—Abner Doubleday did not invent baseball in a cow pasture in upstate New York, many fans enjoy the game for its nostalgic qualities. Vaught's deeply researched exploration of baseball's rural roots helps explain its enduring popularity.

Author : Peet van der Merwe
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN 13 : 0992235901
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Game Farm and Hunting Tourism written by Peet van der Merwe and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wildlife tourism, of which game farms form an important part, is one of South Africa?s biggest tourism products with more game conserved and land under protection than all provincial and national parks combined. Therefore wildlife tourism, especially hunting, is a very important source of income for the country and contributes to job creation in rural provinces like Limpopo, Northern Cape, North West and Eastern Cape. This book places emphasis on hunting (trophy and biltong), game farm development for tourism purposes, game management, game farming and the law, and important future trends. The book is aimed at game farm owners, hunters, hunting outfitters, professional hunters and students in search of knowledge concerning game farm and hunting tourism.

Author : David Ernest Lantz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Laws Relating to Fur-bearing Animals, 1918 written by David Ernest Lantz and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917 the foreign trade of the United States in raw and manufactured furs reached nearly, if not fully, the high level of years preceding the war. The imports were valued at $21,553,375, while the exports amounted to $15,729,160, a sum exceeded in only one previous year, 1913 when they were $28,389,586. Home manufacture and utilization of American furs has grown enormously since the beginning of the war. The large export trade of the past year shows, therefore, a production of pelts of unprecedented value, in spite of the fact that the actual number of skins collected must have been less than in previous years. Many former trappers were more profitably employed in other industries, and many were deterred from plying their vocation by the increased restrictions on trapping, especially the costly nonresident licenses. Trapping restrictions properly enforced and limiting the taking of fur to prescribed seasons will result not only in conserving the fur supply but in greatly increasing the quality and value of the annual catch." -- p.2

Author : L. R. Malcolm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780511301995
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Farming Game written by L. R. Malcolm and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is not just about managing a farm, but managing the entire enterprise, from the land right through to the retail end of the chain. It is essential for all students of agricultural science and for everyone who needs to understand the business of farm management.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Farmer's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: