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Ducks and rice: In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 10; In many parts of Southeast Asia, farmers raise ducks and farm wet-rice fields in a mutually beneficial, or symbiotic, relationship. Duck droppings fertilize the water in which the rice grows. Ducks also eat the algae and other weeds that grow near the young...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Sharecropping and tenant farming: In North Carolina in the New South, page 1.3; After the Civil War, former slaves and white farmers forced off the land by hard times rented land as tenants or worked for a share of the crop they produced, often living in continual debt.; Format: article

Chatham County farmers protest: In North Carolina in the New South, page 7.4; Petition from the Chatham County Farmers Alliance to the North Carolina General Assembly, 1889, asking for legislation protecting the interests of farmers. Includes historical commentary.; Format: petition

Carrboro Farmers Market: Format: image/photograph

Rice field terraces showing water being released downhill: This view of rice field terraces shows how water is shared among many Balinese farmers by being released downhill in successive stages. The wet-rice field looks like a green staircase down a mountainside, with small spouts of water falling from step to step....; Format: image/photograph

Some of the Founders of Mechanics & Farmers Bank: Portrait of some of the Founders of Mechanics & Farmers Bank, Durham, NC.; Format: image/photograph

Border Belt Farmers Museum: Not only will students learn about the history of tobacco farming, they will discover other important industries to this southern North Carolina county.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Ducks swim in canal near Mai Chau: Ducks swim in a canal near Mai Chau. These brown, white, and black ducks with yellow bills are a domesticated variety raised by local rice farmers. In many parts of Southeast Asia, farmers raise ducks and farm wet-rice fields in a mutually beneficial, or symbiotic,...; Format: image/photograph

From field to bowl: In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 11; Harvested rice grains generally are stored in their husks until needed for food. At that time, the husks must be removed either in large stone or wood mortars with pestles wielded by farmers, or by the kind of mechanical threshing machine seen here. Such machines...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Pottery workshop: In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 15; Figure 13 shows the pottery workshop located near the grinder — but not too near, or everything would get dusty! On the left you can see the wheels at which the potters will work balls of clay into objects like the pitchers on the tables on the right....; By Dirk Frankenberg.

Penderlea Homestead Museum: A Homestead Community of the Depression Era: Visit this Depression-era community built by President Roosevelt's New Deal progra, in 1934. The museum in Willard, North Carolina is open on Saturdays and by appointment.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Farmers! Housewives! Children! : The President of the United States Appeals to You Personally: Six black and white photographs of various aspects of farm life. The text of the poster includes extracts from one of President Wilson's addresses to the public and is divided into the following sections: Abundant food supplies essential Make...; Format: image/poster

Life on the land: The Piedmont before industrialization: In North Carolina in the New South, page 1.1; In the decades after the Civil War, commercial agriculture and industry made their way into the North Carolina Piedmont, requiring subsistence farmers to adapt their farms and their ways of life to new economic realities.; Format: article; By James Leloudis and Kathryn Walbert.

Rural electrification: Farm work: Original caption: "Portrait of America. No. 36. Rural electrification in the U.S. This feed mixer on an American farm was economically constructed with plans provided to farmers by the U.S. Rural Electrification Administration. The motor (foreground) which...; Format: image/photograph

Tobacco farming the old way: In North Carolina in the New South, page 1.8; From about 1880 until the 1950s, tobacco farming was extremely labor-intensive and relied on hand work and animal power. This article explains the process of growing tobacco for market "the old way."; Format: article

A highland farmhouse: In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 14; The farm house shown here, located by a canal at Dong Ha, has a thatch and corrugated metal roof. Corrugated metal roofs are popular among some farmers in Southeast Asia because they are long lasting and fire resistant. They are, however, hotter, noisier,...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Letter of April 7, 1939: In Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression, page 1.5; MORSE BAG COMPANY East Bend, North Carolina. April 7, 1939. Mr. Sherlock Bronson, Richmond, Virginia. Dear Sir: In compliance with your request of March 28th, I am glad to give you an idea of my experience in working with tobacco bags. My mother and father,...

Wet rice in the highlands: In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 3; This photograph, and most of the photos that follow, was taken in Mai Chau, in the highlands of northwestern Vietnam. In most of Southeast Asia, the highlands are too dry or steep to construct the standing water pools required to nourish wet rice. Therefore,...; By Lorraine Aragon.

The birth of Sita: In The Ramayana, page 1.3; A painted mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple shows the infant Sita sitting in a gold urn as she is discovered by a king ploughing his fields. Beside Sita's urn, which protrudes from the ground, we see the king holding a wooden plough harnessed to an ox. The...

Water puppets: In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 19; In this water puppet performance in Hanoi, one high status character in the procession rides a wooden horse while the others carry his flag or guard his possessions. Vietnam's unique water puppet tradition is said to date back approximately 1,000 years. Early...; By Lorraine Aragon.

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