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Robinson's volume on Minnesota is now over twenty years old, 

 and that of C. W. Burkett on Oliiu appeared in VJOO: Some of 

 the more recent state liistories inciiuie chapters on agriculture, 

 and there are also a number of experiment station bulletins that 

 supply general summaries for states.' Russell II. Anderson haa 

 done a period of Illinois a.trri<'ultur»' and promises to oxpand his 

 study into an as^ricultural liistory of the state.'' James ('. Malin 

 is working on the agricultural history of his native Kansas, and 

 Harold E. Briggs, Marc M. ClewortJi, and Herbert S. Schell have 

 done similar research on tlie early years of the Dakota.'^.'" The 

 agricultural history of Michigan, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, and 

 Nebraska remain to be undertaken if the subject is to be devel- 

 oped in terms of states. 



In studying the agricultural history- of any region, basic con- 

 sideration must be given to two primal factors — the settlers 

 and the geographic moulds into which they poured themselves. 



T Edward Van D. Robinson, Early Economic Conditions and th« Developmmt of 

 Affriculture in Minnesota (Minneapolis, 1915) ; Charles W. Burkett, History of Ohio 

 Apriculturt (Concord, N. H., 1900). 



• For example, Eugene U. Rosebooni and Francis P. Weisenburger, A liistory of 

 Ohio (New York, 1934), 4 7, 179-181. 306-314. 



» For an abstract, see Russell H. Anderson, Aprictdture in Illinois during th« 

 CivU War Period, 1S50-1S70 (Urbana, 1929). 



10 James C. Malin, "The Kinsley Boom of the Late Eighties," Kansas Historical 

 Quarterly (Topeka), IV (1935), 23-49, 164187; id., "The Turnover of Farm Popula 

 tion in Kansas," ibid., IV (1935), 339-372; and id., "The Adaptation of the Agri- 

 cultural System to Sub-Humid Environment," Agricultural History, X (1936), 118- 

 141; Harold E. Briggs, "Raiiching and Stock-Raising in the Territory of Dakota," 

 South Dakota Historical Collections (Pierre), XIV (1928), 417 465; id., "The Great 

 Dakota Boom, 1879 to 1886," North Dakota Historical Quarterly (Bismarck), IV 

 (1930), 78109; id., "The Development of Agriculture in Territorial Dakota," Cul- 

 ver-Stockton Quarterly (Canton, Mo.), VII (1931), 137; id., "Early Bonanxa 

 Farming in the R*d River Valley of the North," Agricultural History, VI (1932), 

 26-37; id., "The Development and Decline of Open Range Ranching in the North- 

 west," MisBiSKiPPi Valley Historical RE\^EW, XX (1934), 521-536;«J., "Grasshop- 

 per Plagues and Early Dakota Agriculture, 1864-1876," Agricultural History, VIII 

 (1934), 51-63, "The Settlement and Economic Development of the Territory of 

 DakoU," South Dakota Historical Bcvicw (Pierre), I (1936), 151-166, and "The 

 Early History of Clay County," South Dakota Historical Collections, XIII (1926), 

 69157; Marc M. Cleworth, "Twenty Yearn of Brown County Agricultural History, 

 1880-1899," ibid., XVII (1934), 17-176; Herbert S. Schell, "The Grange and the 

 Credit Problem in Dakota Territory," Agricultural History, X (193C), 5l» 83 ; id., 

 "Drought and Agriculture in Eastern South Dakota during the Eighteen Ninetlea," 

 ibid., V (1931), 162 180. 



