Face of Rural America: The 1976 Yearbook of Agriculture is a Visual Record of America's Agriculture in the Bicentennial Year

摘要

The book captures, photographically, American rural life as it is today. Modern agriculture is changing so fast that it is hard to keep up. Those who 'used to live on a farm' may have fond memories of those experiences, but if they are away from the farm for even a while, they quickly fall behind. It is nothing short of amazing to see the new machines in agriculture, and the new techniques. Farms are getting larger, as they should. A farmer with a couple of tractors, self-propelled harvesters, finishing houses for livestock, and a feed mixer with automated feeding equipment can do a great deal more than a farmer could with horses, a scoop shovel, and hand harvesting. He can easily handle more acres-and he needs to in order to pay for the equipment and meet his increased operating expenses.