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This first history of cattle raising in a southern state documents the development of the industry in Alabama from colonial times to the present within the broader contexts of southern and American agricultural history. Cattle raising today is the most widely practiced form of agriculture in Alabama and ranks second only to the poultry industry in terms of revenue. Brooks Blevins not only relates the development and relative importance of the industry to agricultural practices but also presents it as an integral component of southern history, inextricably linked to issues of sectional politics, progressivism, race and class struggles, and rural depopulation. Blevinss study increases our understanding of the history of southern agriculture by providing a valuable model of a story repeated throughout the South.
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Cattle in the Cotton Fields : A History of Cattle Raising in Alabama
author
:
Blevins, Brooks.
publisher
:
University of Alabama Press
isbn10 | asin
:
0817309403
print isbn13
:
9780817309404
ebook isbn13
:
9780585323305
language
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English
subject
Cattle--Alabama--History.
publication date
:
1998
lcc
:
SF196.U5B58 1998eb
ddc
:
636.2/009761
subject
:
Cattle--Alabama--History.
Page iii
Cattle in the Cotton Fields
A History of Cattle Raising in Alabama
Brooks Blevins
Page iv
Copyright 1998 The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380 All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America
Portions of Chapter 2 have been published in the October 1998 issue of The Alabama Review 1998 The University of Alabama Press.
The paper on which this book is printed meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Science-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Blevins, Brooks, 1969 Cattle in the cotton fields : a history of cattle raising in Alabama / Brooks Blevins. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. 1. CattleAlabamaHistory. I. Title. SF196.U5 B58 1998 636.2009761ddc21 9819778
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data available
ISBN 0-8173-0940-3
Page v
To the Memory of Bryan and Alverda Blevins
Page vii
Contents
Preface
ix
1. The Melding of Traditions
1
2. Piney Woods and Plantations
13
3. Agricultural Progressivism and the South
43
4. The Midwestern Model Meets the South
76
5. Cattle in the Cotton Fields
114
6. New Farmers in the New South
143
Appendix
167
Notes
175
Bibliography
197
Index
207
Page viii
Maps and Tables
Maps
Alabama Counties
xiii
Physiographic Regions of Alabama
xiv
Tables
Alabama Cattle and Human Populations, 18401990
167
Effects of the Boll Weevil in the Black Belt, 19101920
In 1994 cattlemen's groups in Alabama and across the nation celebrated the 500th anniversary of the arrival of cattle in the Americas. Undoubtedly, cattle raisers of the fifteenth century, or piney woods herders of the early twentieth century for that matter, would find familiar little if anything in the modern cattle industry. Larger, meatier animals roam pastured fields enclosed by barbed-wire fences. Roundups and brands are as rare in Alabama today as purebred Herefords were in the nineteenth century. The forces of government and science have cooperated to control diseases and parasites, and American wealth and affluence have created an unimaginable demand for beef.
In Alabama the cattle raisers of the late twentieth century bear little resemblance to those of the early twentieth century, and much less to the native American and French herders of the eighteenth century. Open-range
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