These huge industrial farms have all the advantages and are able to produce in far more quantity the small family owned farms. ... While this may be true it also shows how much in danger the small family farms could be and probably are in. ... What initiative 300 basically does is keep small family farms and large corporate farms on an equal playing field. ... So while this helps to keep family farms in the mix, it stands in the way of the large companies making money. ... Family farms may be around for a while longer I don't think they will ever find a way to compete with large corpo...

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The differences between the rich and poor American families were profoundly visible in size and value of the home. ... Most Americans, during this time, lived in families that contained "extra people" like domestic "helps," midwives, farm laborers, widows, or even orphans of a decreased relation. ... A great majority, four-fifths in 1800, of American families farmed the land for themselves and their neighbors despite the growing expansion of commerce, transportation innovations, and manufacturing. ... On American farms and plantations, horses and oxen hauled loads, pulled p...

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It is very hard for families to go on extended foraging trips and someone must always be watching over the herd and crop. ... In the Ju society it is tradition to share, however among those who farm and herd, it is based on the idea of saving. ... In Debe's story, her and her husbands family would surface at the harvesting season looking for food. When the idea was mentioned that they help to make a larger farm area, the family was disgusted by the notion. ... His family however, he knew would put him out of business if he let them come and feast on all of his food. ...

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The traditional family in this time included a working husband, a few kids, and a wife. ... Women were also expected to form a merry home and take care of her husband and family for whatever they needed. ... These working women were from New England, between the ages of fifteen and thirty years old, unmarried, and from middle-class farm families. ... These women were paid considerably more than other women who were teachers, farm laborers, and domestic workers, which were the three major jobs for women. ...

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K) We can find this relationship now right in the farm. Large corporations own less than 1% of the farms owned today. This shows that the farms out there big or small are still family owned. ... While larger farms have huge contracts that account for a large percentage of the food we eat. ...

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This was especially helpful to farms in remote locations. ... It provided people with a time efficient way to travel to visit family and take trips. ... Now it would only take us a half-day the drive and we'd be back in time to take care of the farm. ...

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The woman slaves usually worked in the homes, cooking and cleaning, whereas the men were sent out into the plantations to farm. Slaves were of all ages and sexes so the young girls would usually help in the house also and young boys would help in the farm by bailing hay and loading wagons with crops. ... They worked fewer hours and had more privileges than did the field hands, but were more subject to the wishes of the owners families. ... If the slave disobeyed, the owner replied on punishment, such as lashings, short rations, and threats to sell members of the slave's family. ...

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However, colonists in the south began to expand away from each other, establishing isolated farms as opposed to towns. Because of the vast distance between each of the farms in the Chesapeake colonies, the colonies were unable to protect themselves. ... Moreover, the document stated how men were very apprehensive about leaving their families to go protect the borders of the colonies, because they were leaving their families very vulnerable. ... These events led to a society which produced unusual patterns of family life. ... The document exemplified how the people who came to the New England c...

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However, colonists in the south began to expand away from each other, establishing isolated farms as opposed to towns. Because of the vast distance between each of the farms in the Chesapeake colonies, the colonies were unable to protect themselves. ... Moreover, the document stated how men were very apprehensive about leaving their families to go protect the borders of the colonies, because they were leaving their families very vulnerable. ... These events led to a society which produced unusual patterns of family life. ... The document exemplified how the people who came to the New England c...

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Most settled into farms on the Great Plains where it was cheaper to farm because they didn't need fences, and the land was cheaper. Homestead Act - In 1862 the Homestead Act was passed, providing 160 acres of public land free to any adult citizen or head of family who had lived on the land for five years. ... When they came to America they were usually poor because they had came from poor counties, and were willing to work on American farms for very low wages. ... Samuel Gompers - Emigrated to New York with his family in 1863 he worked as a cigar maker and a union organizer. ...

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The Indians worked in the gold and silver mines along with working on large-scale farms. ... Nearly half of Virginia's white families owned at least one slave during this time. ... They had small farms that few slaves would work by maintaining the agriculture, and becoming farm hands. ... It was extremely unusual for even rich families to own more than one slave. ...

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They were capable of pioneering the land by running the farms and plantations. ... Some would prefer to dedicate their lives raising their kids and having a family. ... They are probably part of her goals in life, but there are also other equally important goals such as the need to build a family and live a happy life. One thing that feminism took away is the importance of the family values and her natural role of "the mother taking care of her children". ... I actually believe that it was a good thing at that time to give such great importance to the family and be united as a family. ...

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People from small towns and farms also helped swell the population in the cities. ... Between four and sixteen families lived on a floor. ... It brought new people over from foreign lands to start families, get better jobs, and make a better life for themselves. ...

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The FAO State of Food and Agriculture 2010-11 report shows that if female farmers had the same access as male farmers to agricultural inputs and services, they could substantially increase the yields on their farms. ... Woman is carrying two duties: as a housewife, taking care of her husband and children and she also had to work to support her family's financial. ...

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Separation of marriages and families in slave trade, sexual abuse of slave women, and the harsh treatment of the slaves in the fields, were just a few ways that slaves were mistreated. ... Most farmers in the south had no more than the twenty slaves on there plantation, these farms were only about 150-200 acres large. The owners of these plantation were not of great wealth, they lived modest lives and provided for there family, man did not even live in very nice homes at all. There was about 10,000 families that owned anywhere from fifty to a hundred slaves that worked hundreds of acres of lan...

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They had expectations of religious freedom, purchase of larger farms, and search of better economic opportunities. ... They learned they could buy larger farms for the same amount equivalent to renting a small one in Germany. ... Because ships sailed irregularly, they didn't have enough money to even start up a farm because they spent all their money at the waterfront slums while awaiting departure. ... The Irish who were poor dug canals and cellars, worked on the docks, served white families, and took in laundry, competed directly with equally poor free blacks. ...

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The family that had once worked together on a farm where each person had their separate duties and everything was taken care of inside the home was now transferred into something new. ... Families also moved from rural areas into big bustling cities. ... Prior to the Industrial Revolution, women and men worked together in the house and on the farm. ... Men could now earn high wages that would pay for any needs of the family, leaving the woman to care for the children and the home. ...

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Many inner cities were separated by their own ethnic groups and where their families were. ... Whole families had to work for wages that were close to nothing just to make it in this new land. ... The women in most farmhouses mainly worked in the family households, and ran the dairy, vegetable, and poultry part of the farm. ... Life on the farm was very difficult in the closing of the frontier. Some survived and lived to pass their farm down from generation to generation. ...

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Animal husbandry is the management and care of farm animals by humans for profit, in which genetic qualities and behavior considered to be advantageous to humans. ... In the Chesapeake colonies the family as the principal cohesive, social force was preserved by the scattered method of settlement. Family was isolated and by necessity made the social economic unit of the colony. ... As a result, the families were usually reduced in size. ... When gentry families moved to America, they naturally assumed positions of leadership. ...

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Kracha wanted freedom, he wanted to run his own farm and make his dreams come true, just so he didn't have to live in a land of poverty but instead wanted to live in the land of opportunity. ... Kracha faced many hardships and overcame them and as for Mike Dobrejcak, he obtained his own success through his family. ... Dobrejcak had a wonderful family and a loving wife. ...

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They gave it to him with the understanding that he would bring into Texas three hundred American families who would become Roman Catholic and properly Mexicanized. ... Brook Farm in Massachusetts was started in 1841. ... Although a number of small manufacturing enterprises existed in America, the value of the output of factories did not exceed that of farms until well past the middle of the nineteenth century. ... Many families stopped raising all of their own food, and spinning their own wool. ...

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The electrical industry grew almost as quickly. 2/3 of all American families enjoyed electricity by the end of the decade The corporation continued to be the dominant economic unit in the 1920s Growing corporations now had hundreds of thousands of stockholders, and one individual or family rarely held more than 5% of the stock In the final analysis, the corporate managers were accountable only to other managers From 1920-8, some 8, 000 mergers took place as more and more small firms proved unable to complete effectively with new giants. ... By 1921, farm exports had fallen by more ...

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Most of the farms in the West moved to commercial agriculture. These people specialized in crops to be sold on national and world markets instead of only to feed their families. ... Any time a family member would move to America they would move in with their family. Houses were crowded with people, but they didn't mind very much because they were with their families and friends, and they had jobs. ... It brought the idea of the modern childhood being a time of leisure, to have fun and not worry about taking care of the family. ...

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My store that has been in my family for generations has been vandalized merely because I sell imported British tea. ... Without the major cities America would be fighting an impossible war over a few farms and plantations. ...

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Franklin's New Deal brought water to California's Central Valley, gave Appalachia electricity and saved farms all over the Midwest. ... Clinton worked on a promise for the hard-working forgotten families. ...

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