Wisconsin Agricultural History : Books

Discover books, theses, pamphlets, and digital collections that examine Wisconsin agricultural history.

Biographies and Memoirs

W.D. Hoard : a man for his time by Loren H. Osman
William Dempster Hoard : --a builder of American dairying by Arthur J. Glover
William Dempster Hoard by George William Rankin
The ten master minds of dairying
Stephen Moulton Babcock : inventor of the Babcock test by Andrew W. Hopkins
Stephen Moulton Babcock, man of science : a memorial to him in observance of the centenary of his birth by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
George A. Austin, 1829-1917 : pioneer of Wisconsin agriculture by Victoria Huntzicker Burton
William Arnon Henry : educator, seer, farm leader by A. S. Alexander
K.M. Royer, dairy innovator by Loren H. Osman
Milk, microbes and Marth : an autobiography by Elmer H. Marth
My life story : memories and anecdotes : an autobiography : (certainly!) by Julian Romuald
Country catalog of memories : (a childhood on a German-American farm in the late 1920's and 30's) by Helen E. Ouimette
Farm & family in southern Wisconsin by Theodore Francis Groves
Grandeur in simplicity by Hans Nelson and Hilda J. Forsythe
F. H. King papers, 1873-1914

Crops

Horse-drawn days by Jerry Apps
Specialty crops and the diversification of Wisconsin agriculture : the results of public hearings and related activities

Livestock

A history of Holstein-Friesian cattle in Wisconsin by Dillman Samuel Bullock
Early history of Animal Husbandry and related departments of the University of Wisconsin-Madison by Gustav Bohstedt

Introduction

This page provides links to a sampling of books, theses, pamphlets, and other print materials on the topic of Wisconsin agricultural history. Most of these items are available at UW-Madison.

General history

The land still lives by Jerry Apps
Wisconsin farm lore : kicking cows, giant pumpkins, and other tales from the back forty by Martin Hintz
When horses pulled the plow : life of a Wisconsin farm boy, 1910-1929 by Olaf F. Larson
The round barn : a biography of an American farm by Jacqueline Jackson
The quiet season : remembering country winters by Jerry Apps
Characteristics of youth choosing farming as an occupation in five selected counties in Wisconsin by Jerry Apps
Farm stories : from the good old days, edited by Crystal Lokken
Farm life : a century of change for farm families and their neighbors : based on a major exhibition, by Frank Smoot
Farming past and present by Robert Hatz
Farming the cutover : a social history of Northern Wisconsin, 1900-1940 by Robert Gough
The farm landscape : a bibliography of the architecture and archaeology of farmsteads and settlement in Wisconsin and in the areas of origin of its settlers in the United States and Europe by Peggy Lee Beedle
My land, my home, my Wisconsin : the epic story of the Wisconsin farm and farm family from settlement days to the present by Robert Edward Gard
History of Wisconsin agriculture and rural life
Richard T. Ely and the development of the Wisconsin cutover by Robert Gough
Seventy-five years of Farm Bureau in Wisconsin
The impact of government on Wisconsin agriculture : past, present and future by Michael Flaherty
The Wisconsin dust bowl by Michael J. Goc
Our agricultural heritage by Ray Pagel
Families on farms : migrants, farmers, and the transformation of Wisconsin's countryside, 1920s-60s by Maia A. Surdam

Dairy production

Cheese : the making of a Wisconsin tradition by Jerry Apps
The history and accomplishments of the Wisconsin Cheese Producers' Federation (1925) by William Kirsch
Early cheese making in Wisconsin : early cheese factory equipment and some related history by Norman J. Peters
Creating Dairyland : how caring for cows saved our soil, created our landscape, brought prosperity to our state, and still shapes our way of life in Wisconsin by Edward Janus
Where have all the Guernseys gone? by Duane E. Young
Nature's perfect food : how milk became America's drink by E. Melanie DuPuis
Cows, creameries, and cheese factories (Saint Croix County)
Spilt milk : dairy farmer rhetoric and actions during the Wisconsin milk strikes of 1933 by Tim Yuan-Shiao Kung
History of the Dairy Science Department at the University of Wisconsin--Madison : a memoir by L.H. "Bud" Schultz
Lake Mills, a dairying pioneer by Wilbur Stiles
Why Wisconsin is sixth : farmers of our leading dairy state are full of enthusiasm and milk checks by John R. McMahon
The Wisconsin milk strikes by Herbert Austin Jacobs
Maps showing butter and cheese production, cheese factories and creameries, and other information concerning dairy industry in Wisconsin, 1859-1913
The rise of the dairy industry in Wisconsin : a study of agricultural change in the Midwest, 1820-1920 by Eric Edwin Lampard
The development of the dairy industry in Manitowoc County by Edward Ehlert
Law and the Wisconsin dairy industry : quality control of dairy products, 1838-1929 by Shirley Schlanger Abrahamson
Origin and development of the Dairy Farmers Price Stabilization Association in Wisconsin by Robert James Battin
The inter-war factors of change in Wisconsin dairying, 1919-1941 by Raymond Joseph White

Brewing

Breweries of Wisconsin by Jerry Apps
The Wisconsin Brewing Story
The breweries of Oshkosh : their rise and fall by Ron Akin
A spirited history of Milwaukee brews & booze by Martin Hintz
The Pabst Brewing Company : the history of an American business by Thomas C. Cochran
History of the Oshkosh Brewing Co
Brewing up a damn good story by Manjit Minhas
A century of progress in malting and brewing by the Rahr Malting Company
Miller time : a history of Miller Brewing Company 1855-2005 by John Gurda
Historical geography of the brewing industry : focus on Wisconsin by William Owen Baldwin

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Technology

Mills of Wisconsin and the Midwest by Jerry Apps
Vintage Ford tractors by Robert Pripps
Old farm tractors by Philip A. Wright
Vintage American farm tractors by Andrew Morland
John Deere farm tractors : a history of the John Deere tractor by Randy Leffingwell
The illustrated history of tractors : from pioneering steam power to today's engineering marvels by Robert Moorhouse
Farm tractor milestones by Randy Leffingwell
John Deere tractor data book by Lorry Dunning

Buildings

Barns of Wisconsin by Jerry Apps
Wisconsin barns by Nancy Schumm-Burgess
Barns for Wisconsin dairy farms by Frank W. White
The round and five-or-more equal sided barns of Wisconsin by Larry T. Jost
Dairy barns of southeastern Wisconsin by Loyal Durand