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  title info:
    title: Nineteenth century hemp culture in the Missouri River Valley
  name:
    name part: Holmes, William Council
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Cook, Earl
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Kimber, Clarissa
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Mamaliga, Emil
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Pennington, Campbell W.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Van Doren, Carlton
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses
  genre: History.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1982
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 314 leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm
  abstract: This dissertation describes the evolution of hemp culture and related economic activities in Missouri during the nineteenth century. Cultivation of hemp as a cash crop was centered in the western valley of the Missouri River and was of major economic importance to the state from the earliest settlement of the interior until the Civil War. The origins of hemp culture in the Upper South are discussed, as are the natural, social, and economic conditions that enabled large-scale, slave-based, commercial agriculture to develop in this region. Nineteenth-century techniques of hemp cultivation and the process for extracting fiber from hemp plants are described in detail, and estimates of acreages and labor requirements for crops of various yields and sizes are presented. Based on agricultural censuses, comparisons are made between hemp plantations and other types of agricultural enterprises. Several case studies allow a closer look at the commitment to this staple in the western Missouri Valley. A compilation of statistics--percent of farmers engaged in fiber production and estimated acreage per farmer--by township permits delineation of the Missouri Hemplands as an agricultural region. The growth of specialized fiber manufactures (i.e., baling rope and bagging for the southern cotton market) in the western Missouri Valley and St. Louis is examined, along with the characteristics and distribution of these industries. Also investigated are the growth of trade in raw fiber and fiber products and the marketing problems encountered in the antebellum era, including quality control, fluctuation demands, and competition with cheaper imported fiber. The possibilities that existed for producing hemp fiber for the maritime market are discussed briefly. The demise of hemp culture is viewed as the result of several factors, the most immediate being the impact of the Civil War, with the loss of slave labor and southern markets. Foreign competition was another major contributing cause. …
  note: "Major subject: Geography."
  note: Typescript (photocopy).
  note: Vita.
  note: Ph. D. in Philosophy Texas A & M University 1982
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 291-313).
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-mo
  subject:
    topic: Hemp
    geographic: Missouri River Valley
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Geography
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  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-385279
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  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 831020
    record change date: 20220104090144.0
    record identifier: in00000374283
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng