Winter Wheat in the Golden Belt of Kansas

A Study in Adaptation to
Subhumid Geographical Environment

by

James C. Malin

Professor of History,
University of Kansas

Lawrence KS: University of Kansas Press, 1944
[Thanks to the University Press of Kansas
for having graciously allowed this book
to be placed on-line]

INDEX

Part I
BEGINNINGS

Chapter 1: Subhumid Environment and Agriculture
Chapter 2: The First Steps in Winter Wheat Production, 1855-1870
Chapter 3: The Small Farmer, Stockman and Climate, 1870-1872

PART II
THE SOFT WINTER WHEAT BOOM, 1872-1882

Chapter 4: The Soft Winter Wheat Boom
Chapter 5: Adaptation of Machinery
Chapter 6: T. C. Henry, real Estate dealer and "Wheat King"
Chapter 7: Diversification and Livestock
Chapter 8: T. C. Henry's Later Career
Chapter 9: Varieties of Soft Wheat
Chapter 10: Rural Life and Subhumid Climate During
the Seventies; "The Clean Shirt and Good Living"

PART III
THE EMERGENCE OF THE
HARD WINTER WHEAT REGIME
1883-1902

Chapter 11: The Crop Record, 1883-1902
Chapter 12: Introduction of Hard Red Winter Wheat
Chapter 13: Recognition in Marion County
Chapter 14: Spread into the Kansas valley Counties
Chapter 15: The Agricultural College and Hard Winter Wheat
Chapter 16: Bread and Public Acceptance of Hard Winter Wheat
Chapter 17: The Culture of Hard Winter Wheat; Tillage, Planting and Harvesting
Chapter 18: An Epilogue

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