Annual Meeting of the Agricultural History Society June 3-6, 2015 Lexington, Kentucky Hyatt Regency Lexington Program draft for web (April 8, 2015) L1 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 L2 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 L3 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 L4 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 L5 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,