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This study traces rural life and agriculture in a Virginia county from traditional family-farm practices through mechanization, professionalization, and New Deal-era interventions, focusing on crops, orchards, livestock, seasonal work, household preservation, and cooperative institutions such as extension services, 4-H, and grange organizations. It juxtaposes continuity of domestic and communal labor with shifts in technology, road and market access, and standards of living, and documents local responses to pests, economic pressures, and modernization. The final sections describe evolving land use and efforts to conserve farm landscapes as a public park and community resource.
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