Annual Meeting of the Agricultural History Society

June 3-6, 2015 Lexington, Kentucky Hyatt Regency Lexington Program draft for web (April 8, 2015)

1 Wednesday, June 3

2-7 p.m. Executive Committee Meeting

3-8 p.m. Registration

Thursday, June 4

7 a.m. - 8 p.m. Registration

7-8 a.m. Editorial breakfast

7-8:15 a.m. Graduate Student Breakfast (free, pre-registration required)

8:30 a.m. - 10 a.m. Plenary Session: Animals and Agricultural History

Chair: Deborah Fink, Independent Scholar Thomas Andrews, University of Colorado Dolly Jørgensen, Umeå University Brett Mizelle, California State University Long Beach Harriet Ritvo, Massachussets Institute of Technology Sandra Swart, Stellenbosch University

10-10:30 a.m. Coﬀee Break

10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. Session II

1. Communities and Markets in the Antebellum Midwest Chair: Mark Summers, University of Kentucky Comment: Audience Kelly Wenig, Iowa State University, "To Hold Himself in Readiness: Horses, Thieves, and Community in Marion County, Indiana in the Antebellum Era David Horst Lehman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Lessons in Dispossession: How an Anglo Settler Family Lived and Represented Space on the Illinois Frontier Jeﬀ Bremer, Iowa State University, "Land Was Bad for Business": Humans, Animals, and Markets in Frontier Iowa

2. Managing Land for Animals Chair and Comment: Kendra Smith-Howard, University of Albany SUNY Joshua M. Nygren, University of Kansas, Alfalfa, Cows, and Contour Strips: How Biology Fostered Federal Conservation Eﬀorts in Southwestern Wisconsin Chris Deutsch, University of Missouri, Columbia, Toxic Health: Cattle and Humans Confront the Chemical Landscape of Mid-Twentieth Century California

2 Thursday (con’t) - Friday

Karin Patzke, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Changing Notions of Animal Husbandry: From Livestock to Wildlife Management on Agricultural Lands in Texas

3. Controlling Unwanted Species Chair and Comment: Erin Mauldin, Samford University Brenda Kellar, Oregon State University, An Apple a Day Lawrence Kessler, Temple , "Overcoming Nature by Nature": Biological Pest Control in the Sugarcane Plantation of Hawai'i Adam M. Romero, University of California, Berkeley, Commercializing Chemical Warfare: Citrus, Cyanide, and the Salvation of Southern California, 1886-1900

4. Roundtable: Jess Gilbert's Planning Democracy: Agrarian Intellectuals and the Intended New Deal Chair: David E. Hamilton, University of Kentucky Anne Eﬄand, United States Department of Agriculture David Danbom, Loveland, Colorado Sara Gregg, University of Kansas Jess Gilbert, University of Wisconsin

5. Livestock on the Move: Immigrant Farming Strategies, the Show Ring, and the Transnational Dairy Regime Chair: Catharine Anne Wilson, University of Guelph Comment: Audience Elizabeth Ritchie, University of Highlands and Islands, Cows, Sheep and Scots: Immigrant Farming Strategies in Upper Canada, 1820-50 Jodey Nurse, University of Guelph, Challenging the “Man” in Showmanship: Women Exhibitors in Horse and Livestock Shows at Ontario Fairs Meredith Quaile, Independent Scholar, The Globe-Trotting Holstein Cow: Overlooked Actors of a Transnational Dairy Regime

12-1:30 p.m. Presidential Luncheon (ticket required) Sally McMurry, Pennsylvania State University, Preserving Agricultural History Through Land and Building

1:30-3 p.m. Session III

1. Intimacy with Animals in Cross-Cultural and Historical Perspectives Chair and Comment: Collin Johnson, Indiana University Gabe Rosenberg, Duke University, How Meat Changed Sex: The Law of Interspecies Sex after Industrial Reproduction Alex Blanchette, Tufts University, Piglet Love: The History of a Species on an American Factory Farm Natalie Porter, University of New Hampshire, Marketing Morals, Selling Security: Governing Interspecies Intimacy in Vietnamese Bird Flu Control

3 Thursday (con’t) - Friday

Emily Pawley, Dickinson College, Feeding desire: Generative landscapes and animal breeding in Great Britain, 1760-1839

2. Rural Culture Chair and Comment: Randall Hall, Rice University Rhonda Davis, Antioch University New England, Agrarian Principles and the Neo- Farming Movement, How Agrarian Principles of the Past are Impacting Modern-Day Farming Initiatives Seth Hedquist, Iowa State University, The Farmer Musician: Behind the Iowa Recordings of Thomas B. Mann

3. Roundtable: Women’s Hands Working on the Land: Sources in Rural Women’s History Chair: Linda Ambrose, Ohio University Comment: Joan M. Jensen, New Mexico State University Valerie Grim, Indiana University Karen V. Hansen, Brandeis University Katherine Jellison, Ohio University Jodey Nurse, University of Guelph Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, Iowa State University Catherine A. Wilson, Unviversity of Guelph

4. Livestock Cultures Chair and Comment: Warren Elofson, University of Calgary Rebecca Shimoni-Stoil, Johns Hopkins University, The Battle of the Beef: Anti- federalism, the war on cholesterol and economic intersectionality in the Farm Crisis Michael Weeks, University of Colorado Boulder, The Engineering of an Agricultural Landscape: Cattle, Crops, and Colleges in Northern Colorado, 1880-1930 Philip A. Homan, Idaho State University, “Everything Growing into Money”: Kittie Wilkins, Horse Queen of Idaho, the Wilkins Horse Company, and Range Horse Ranching in the Nineteenth-Century American West

5. Industrializing the Orchard Chair and Comment: Frank Uekoetter, University of Birmingham John Henris, University of Arkansas Monticello, Engineering and Orchard District in the Black Hills: The Technological and Ecological Frontiers of Apple Growing in the Spearﬁsh Valley, 1880 – 1920 William Kerrigan, Muskingum University, Growth and consolidation in the Shenandoah Valley apple industry, 1890-1920, James Murton, Nipissing University, Subsistence Production and Commodity Production in the British Imperial Food System: the Case of Nova Scotia Apples

3-3:30 Coﬀee Break

4 Thursday (con’t) - Friday

3:30-5 Session IV

1. Managing Interspecies Relationships Chair and Comment: Gabe Rosenberg, Duke University Brett Mizelle, California State University Long Beach, “They go upon the assumption that everything in life is clean and nice": Transformations in Agriculture and the Human-Animal Relationship in Brighton, Massachusetts Benjamin Zamzow, University of Pittsburgh, The Eﬀect of Dog License Laws on Agriculture and the Community Amir Zelinger, Rachel Carson Center, The Useful Pet: Comparing Companion Animals and Production Animals in Imperial Germany

2. Politics and Policy Chair and Comment: Anne Eﬄand, United States Department of Agriculture Andrew Edwards, Bangor University, ‘“The Conservatives claim to be the party of agriculture – they have never done as much for the farmer as the Labour party”: Labour and the modernization of Welsh rural areas, 1945-65 Sara M. Gregg, University of Kansas, The Human Animal on the Northern Great Plains: ‘Free Land,’ the Expanding Nation-State, and the Reality of Homesteading in Twentieth-Century America Prakash Kumar, Pennsylvania State University, Materializing the History of US Food Aid to India Rasheed Saleuddin, University of Cambridge, Going beyond ‘market versus state’ ideological struggles in explaining the existence and longevity of the 1922 Grain Futures Act

3. Livestock Famine and Disease Chair and Comment: Margaret Derry, University of Toronto Joe Anderson, Mount Royal University, Rethinking the American Hog Cholera Epizootic of the Nineteenth Century: Origins, Diﬀusion, and Coexistence Rebecca Kaplan, University of California, San Francisco , “Get Rid of Bang's Disease, It Can Be Licked!”: Communicating Risk about Brucellosis in Mid-20th Century United States Jenny Leigh Smith, Georgia Institute of Technology, Livestock Famines in the Twentieth Century

4. The South Adopts the Roadway: Incorporating Technological Change into Southern Culture in the Early Twentieth Century Chair and Comment: Robert S. Saunders, Jr., Troy University Fon L. Gordon, University of Central Florida, The Automobile in Florida: A Social History of Race and Motoring in the New South Martin T. Olliﬀ, Troy University, Making Rural Roads and the Administrative State: Good Roads Days in Alabama and Missouri, 1912-1915 David Burel, Auburn University, Florida's Open Road: Inﬂuence of the Tin Can Tourists of the World on Automobility and Tourism in the Sunshine State, the South, and Beyond

5 Friday (con’t)

5. Representing Animals Chair and Comment: Jeﬀ Filipiak, University of Wisconsin Fox Valley Wayne Anderson, University of Iowa, Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Depression?: Animated Pigs in 1930s American Culture Hannah M. Biggs, Rice University, Animals and Other People: Narrative Animal Centrism of Louis Bromﬁeld’s Late Career Farm Writing Julia Johnson, Michigan State University, Animism, Animals, and Agriculture: Animal Husbandry in Nineteenth Century Shaker Religious Practice

5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Reception (open to all)

6:15 p.m. - 7:30 p.m., Keynote Address (open to all) Karl Raitz, University of Kentucky, Making Bourbon: A Cultural Ecology of Distilling Practices in 19th Century Kentucky,

Friday, June 4

7 am-12 pm, Registration

8:30-10 a.m. Session I

1. Animal Health Chair: Joe Anderson, Mount Royal University, Comment: Audience Sarah Egge, Centre College, Hens in the House: Women and Animal Welfare in the American Midwest Kathryn Heintzman, Harvard University, Out of the Kitchen: Veterinary Recipes in Ancient Regime France Erin Mauldin, Samford University, “A Nakedness of Livestock”: Hog Cholera, the Disappearing Commons, and the Question of Self-Suﬃciency on Southern Farms, 1860-1880

2. Rural Labor Regimes Chair and Comment: Drew Swanson, Wright State University E. Fraser Livingston, Mississippi State University, More than an Imagined Fear? Dogs in Rural Convict Camps Sara E. Morris, University of Kansas, Hoosier Rurbanization: Home Production and Rural Women in Post-World War II Indiana

3. Horses, Cows, and Bears, Oh My! Animals in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Farmers' Conﬂicts Chair and Comment: Thomas G. Andrews, University of Colorado Emily Vey, York University, Raised to Farm, Not to Race: Rural Horse Raising in 19th Century Ontario

6 Friday (con’t) - Saturday

Hayley Goodchild, McMaster University, Cows Caught in the Clutches of Rural Conﬂict in Ontario’s Cheese Industry, 1890-1920

4. Boundaries of Domestication Chair and Comment: Jenny Leigh Smith, Georgia Institute of Technology Katie Algeo, Western Kentucky University, Underground Farming: The Historical Geography of Cave Mushroom Production M. Arivalagan, Mardrid Institutite of Development Studies, The Missing Place of Wild Animals Marcus Burtner, University of Arizona, Sensual, Ornamental, and Edible: Planting the Native and Exotic and Consuming Place in the Sonoran Desert, 1890-1960 Adam Ebert, Mount Mercy University, Commercial Bee Pollination in Modern America

5. Elites and Ag Chair and Comment: David Danbom, Loveland, Colorado David Delbert Kruger, University of Wyoming, J. C. Penney and his Agrarian Animals: The Award-Winning Livestock of a Department Store Icon Jaclyn J.S. Miller, University of Kansas, The Lender and the Modern Land Renting System: Albert A. Doerr’s Impact on Great Plains Farming Patterns Michael Winslow, University of Iowa, American Elites and Agricultural Reform in the early 20th Century: the Sandhills Board of Trade

6. New Deal Dreams, Rural Realities Chair and Comment: Ann K. Ferrell, Western Kentucky University Sarah K. Rovang, Brown University, The Seeds of Cooperative Farming: Electricity and the "Ideal Rural Community" Jess Lamar Reece Holler, Western Kentucky University, Book Farming on the Government Place?: Negotiating Regional Farmways in New Deal Print Agricultures Jeﬀrey P. Nagle, University of Pennsylvania, A Countryside for the 75-Mile City: Neotechnic Visions for the American South in the New Deal

10-10:30am Break

Session II, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 pm

1. Dorothy Schwieder Roundtable Jenny Barker-Devine, Illinois College Anne Eﬄand, United States Department of Agriculture Valerie Grim, Indiana University Joan Jensen, Independent Scholar Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, Iowa State University Claire Strom, Rollins College

7 Friday (con’t) - Saturday

2. Kentucky Animals Chair and Comment: Jim Klotter, Georgetown College Margaret M. Gripshover, Western Kentucky University, Fancy Horses on the Periphery: The Rise and Fall of Bowling Green, Kentucky, as a Specialized Saddlebred Breeding Region Andrew Patrick, University of Kentucky, Dogs & Men on the Kentucky Frontier

3. Animals and War Chair: Virgil Dean, Washburn University Comment: Audience Tony Mullis, United States Command and General Staff Officer College, Casus Bovine: The Cow in Mid-Nineteenth Century Human Conflict Jeanette Vaught, University of Texas Austin, "With a Regal Moo and a Toss of his Dewlap": A Veterinarian's Diary of Beef Sire Science and Animal Affinity During the Second World War Thomas Webb, University of Liverpool, "Pigs for Victory": Pigs in Wartime Britain, 1939-1945

4. The Historian in the Museum Collection Chair and Comment: Daniel Vivian, University of Louisville Debra A. Reid, Eastern Illinois University, What is an Agricultural Artifact? What Makes It Worth Including in Your Research Plan? Cameron L. Saﬀell, Texas Tech, The Challenges of an Agricultural Historian as a Museum Curator Cynthia C. Prescott, University of North Dakota, Commemorating Pioneer Men and Women

5. Agriculture and the Anthropocene Chair: Mart Stewart, Western Washington University Comment: Audience Jason Hauser, Mississippi State University, Authors of Prosperity: Climate, Race, and Labor in the Postbellum South James Bergman, Michigan State University, From Industrial to “Climatic” Time: Negotiating the Border Between Temporal Regimes at Seabrook Farms, 1946– 1949 Mats Morell, Stockholm University, Adaptations to weather related harvest ﬂuctuations: East central Sweden in late 18th and early 19th century

6. Narratives of Success and Failure in Agricultural History Chair an Comment: Tom Okie, Kennesaw State University Ian Beamish, Dalhousie University, ’He Has to Give Up His Experimenting’: Failure Narratives in Nineteenth-Century Southern Agricultural Reform Alice Wiemers, Davidson College, Evaluation and the Politics of Neglect in Northern Ghana, 1940-2012 Xinxian Zheng, Princeton University, Agricultural History in Twentieth-Century China: A State of Field

8 Saturday

12-6 pm Field Trips (pre-registration required)

8-9:30pm Special Night Session: Pests and Vermin on Film: the imagery of infestations and eradications in mid-20th century agricultural films and education campaigns Comments: Audience Karen Sayer, Leeds Trinity University Clare Victoria Joanne Griffiths, University of Sheffield

Saturday, June 6

7-12am Registration

7-8:15am RWSA Breakfast (pre-registration required)

8:30-10 a.m. Session I

1. Animal Death: Life and its Aftermath On and Oﬀ the Farm Chair and Comment: Harriet Ritvo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joshua Sprecht, Monash University, Dog Fanciers, the SPCA, and the 1881 “Dog Fighting Championship of America” Rebecca Woods, Columbia University, From Cradle to Table: The Symbolics of Death in Nineteenth-century Imperial Meat Production Jeremy Zallen, Lafayette College, ’Prairie Whales’: Hogs, Lard Lights, and the Temporal Politics of Life and Death in the Antebellum Ohio Valley

2. Intersections of Gender and Labor in Rural America Chair and Comment: Jeannie Whayne, University of Arkansas Maria Howe, Iowa State University, Reclamation’s Working Women: Gender Perceptions, Nature and the Minidoka Irrigation Project, 1900-1920 Rachel Kleinschmidt, Iowa State University, "I suppose I shall always teach": Rural Women and the Teaching Profession, 1865-1900 Hope Mitchell, Iowa State University, The Door of Hope: Farmwomen, Prostitution and Gender in Nineteenth Century Iowa Maggie Weber, Iowa State University, The Men of Homerville: Rural Masculinity on the Small Screen

3. Riding, Ranching, and Racing: The creation of elite animal relationships Chair: Kendra Smith-Howard, University of Albany SUNY Comment: Shane Hamilton, University of Georgia Kathryn Renton, University of California Los Angeles, Horses, Mules and the Spanish Nobility: A sixteenth century manuscript by Don Diego Ramirez de Haro

9 Saturday (con’t)

Brian Tyrrell, University of California Santa Barbara, Creating Elite Animals: The classiﬁcatory regime of the American Stud Book, Tim Paulson, University of California Santa Barbara, Why all Cattlemen Drive Cadillacs: The return of the rancher elite

4. Comparative Perspectives on Livestock Chair and Comment: R. Douglas Hurt, Purdue University Alba Geada, Yale University, When Milk Began to be Worth: Economic, Social, and Cultural Changes in Galician Rural Areas during the second half of the Twentieth Century Ulrike Heitholt, University of Kassel, The "Wanderausstellungen of the D.L.G. and their Inﬂuence on Cattle Breeding in Germany Jian Yang, Nanjin Agriculture University, Swine Plays an Important Role in the Sustainable Development of Small-scale Peasant Economy in ancient China Carrie A. Meyer, George Mason University, On Horsepower and the Advantages of Horses: 1900-1950

5. Agrarian Intellectuals Chair and Comment: Sarah Phillips, Boston University Jeﬀrey Filipiak, University of Wisconsin Fox Valley, Horses vs. Miners: Wendell Berry and Harry Caudill Assess Work’s Consequences in Kentucky Eileen Hagerman, University of Maine, Old Roots and New Shoots: How Back-to- the-Landers Altered Maine’s Local Food Economy Natalie Shibley, University of Pennsylvania, Alabama Renaissance: George Washington Carver and Agriculture as Intellectual History

10-10:30 Break

10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. Session II

1. Roundtable: Discussion of Arresting Contagion: Science, Policy, and Conﬂicts over Animal Disease Control Chair: David Hamilton, University of Kentucky Peter Coclanis, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill David Freshwater, University of Kentucky Peter Timoney, University of Kentucky Alan Olmstead, University of California Davis Paul Rhode, University of Michigan

2. Animal Agency and Methods Chair and Comment: Bret Mizelle, California State University Long Beach Abraham Gibson, Philadelphia Area Center for the History of Science, Counting the Animals: Insights from the 2012 Agricultural Census, Jason Kauﬀman, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Hunting Jaguars in the Pantanal: Animal Agency and Ecology in the World’s Largest Wetland,

10 Saturday (con’t)

Sandra Swart, Stellenbosch University, Animal Archive? New sources and methodologies in researching animal sensitive history,

3. Reading Rural Landscapes Chair and Comment: Peter Noll, Tusculum Colleg William D. Bryan, Emory University, Hobby Farming Tourists in the New South and the Appeal of Working Rural Landscapes Clare Griﬃths, University of Sheﬃeld, Illustrating the South: Race, labour and landscape in Clare Leighton’s wood engravings of the 1940s and 1950s Terry A. Necciai, Independent Scholar, The Way Sheep and Sloped Land Shaped Each Other in Western Pennsylvania Cynthia C. Prescott, University of North Dakota, Commemorating Pioneer Men and Women

4. Processing Humans, Processed Animals: The Costs and Consequences of Industrial Meat Packing Chair and Comment: Bryant Simon, Temple University Karen Senaga, Mississippi State University, The Taste of Labor: Farmers, Workers, and Farm-Raised Catﬁsh Production Nathan Drake, Mississippi State University, Tail Gator: Alligator Meat Processing in the Twentieth Century South Patrick M. Dixon, Georgetown University, Cracked Skulls, Confederate Jails, and a Fistful of Dollars: The Making of Modern Poultry Work at Holly Farms Chelsea Elmore, Marshall University, Like Chickens with Their Heads Cut Oﬀ: Poultry Production and West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle

5. Preparing for the Market Chair and Comment: Jeremy Vetter, University of Arizona Kelli Huggins, Chemung County Historical Society , "Learn to Make Poultry Pay:" The Philo National Poultry Institute and the Business of Birds Michael Belding, Iowa State University, The Iowa State Agricultural Society and Market Integration in 19th Century Iowa Caroline Schoonover, Iowa State University, Trading Independence for Security: Nebraska Homesteaders and the Introduction to the Market Economy 1862-1896

1:30 - 3 p.m., Session III

1. Managing Reproduction Chair and Comment: Barbara Kimmelman, Philadelphia University Margaret Derry, University of Guelph, Genetics and Biotechnology in Livestock Breeding: Patterns of Innovation, 1880-2010 Jesper Oldenburger, Utrecht University, Playing with Breeds: The Crossbreeding of Sheep in the Netherlands, 1960-2000 Steven van der Laan, Utrecht University, Artiﬁcial insemination in Dutch pig breeding: a study of expertise in agricultural practice

11 Saturday (con’t)

2. The Dark Horses of Southern History: How Mosquitos and Thoroughbreds Shaped Antebellum Southern Identity Chair and Comment: Bert Way, Kennesaw State University Kathryn Olivarius, Oxford University, “We have heard sickness and death causing great distress in diﬀerent parts”: Reanalyzing the Impact of Mosquito and Disease on Southern Identity, 1800 to 1830 Katherine Mooney, Florida State University, “Nulliﬁcation was nothing compared to her”: Rethinking the Jacksonian South

3. Organizing Agrarianism Chair and Comment: Mary Summers, University of Pennsylvania Jordan T. Kuck, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Rooted in the Soil: Latvian Mazpulki and International 4-H Vince Lowery, University of Wisconsin Green Bay, “‘The South Will Come into its Own When its ﬁelds are Green in Winter’: Hugh MacRae and the Agrarian New South Alternative

4. 1890 Agricultural History Chair and Comment: Alan Marcus, Mississippi State University Annie Payton, Alabama State University Debra A. Reid, Eastern Illinois University Micah Rueber, Mississippi Valley State University George Wright, Prairie View A&M Juanita Roberts, Tuskeegee University

5. Commons in Comparison Chair and Comment: Alan Olmstead, University of California Davis Ralph Lutts, Independent Scholar, Privatizing the Commons: Land Grants in the American Southwest Thomas Luke Manget, University of Georgia, The Gathering Commons and Enclosure in Nineteenth-Century Appalachia Taylor Spence, Monash University, Civil Unrest and the Right of the Commons in Nineteenth-century North American Borderlands Andrea Williams, Colorado State University, The Tragedy of Enclosure? Privatization and French Agriculture, 1802-1862

3-3:15 p.m. Break

3:15 - 4:45 p.m. Session IV

1. Horse Discourse Chair: Bill Marshall, University of Kentucky Comment: Audience Jean-Yves Dufour, National Institute for Archaeological Preventative Research, Horse stabling in the farms of Ile-de-France (France) : from the 17th to the middle 20th century

12 Saturday (con’t)

Amber P. Roberts Graham, University of Kansas, “Bred Gentlemen: The Discourse of Horsemanship and Polite Culture in Early Eighteenth-Century England” Andria Pooley-Ebert, Iowa State University, "They Should Never Be Broken:" The Advancement of Horse Training on Midwestern Farms, 1900-1960

2. Diﬃcult domestication: Ideologies and making animals productive Chair: Harriet Ritvo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Comment: Audience Karen Sayer, Leeds Trinity University, Narratives of heritage within British agrarian thought on hybridisation, naturalisation and acclimatisation: The Victorians and the common fowl Dolly Jørgensen, Umeâ University, The quest for qiviut: muskoxen as domestic livestock in Alaska and Norway

3. Commodities Chair: Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, Iowa State University Comment: Audience Thomas Bell, Western Kentucky University, The Run for the Onions: Louisville, Kentucky's Brief Reign as the Onion Capital of the Ohio Valley Randall Dupont, University of Mobile, Marketing Molasses in Early 20th Century Louisiana Derek Everett, Colorado State University, Sweet Relief: How the Sugar Beet Saved Colorado Jack Seitz, Iowa State University, Assimilation or Independence? Cotton Production and Export in the Uzbek Khanate of Kiva under Russian Rule, 1873-1914

4, Human-Animal Knowledge Exchange Chair and Comment: Emily Pawley, Dickinson College Joshua Kercsmar, Valpraiso University, Animals and the Nature of Slavery on Thomas Jeﬀerson's Plantation Taylor Spence, Monash University, Animal Pathways in the Making of a North American Borderland, 10,000 BCE to 1534 Sara Spike, Carleton University, “The six-legged, two-headed, double-tailed calf!”: Looking at Non-Ideal Animal Bodies at Agricultural Exhibitions in Late Nineteenth-Century Nova Scotia,

5. Roundtable: Agricultural History on the Ground: Agricultural Land Preservation and Historic Preservation in Kentucky Chair: Sally McMurry, Pennsylvania State University Ned Crankshaw, University of Kentucky Amy Potts, New Opportunities School for Women Foundation Julia Riesenweber, University of Kentucky Betsy Hatﬁeld, Preservation Kentucky Beth Cawood Overman, PDR Director

4:45-5:15 Business Meeting (all are encouraged to attend)

13 Saturday (con’t)

5:30-7:00 Reception (open to all)

7-9 pm Awards Banquet (pre-registration required)