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03291aam a2200421 a 4500 001 490F2086FAB711E8B830B36F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20240326010711 008 171107s2018 wiu 000 0 eng 010 $a 2017034032 020 $a 0870208632 020 $a 9780870208638 (paperback) 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-wi 050 00 $a S521.5.W6 $b A659 2018 082 00 $a 630.9775/57 $2 23 084 $a HIS036060 $a BIO026000 $a LCO010000 $a HIS036090 $a HIS036060 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Apps, Jerry, $d 1934- 245 10 $a Every farm tells a story : $b a tale of family values / $c Jerry Apps. 250 $a 2nd ed. 250 $a Wisconsin Historical Society Press ed. 260 $a Madison : $b Wisconsin Historical Society Press, $c 2018. 300 $a xvi, 155 p. ; $c 22 cm. 520 $a "During Jerry Apps's childhood on the farm, he witnessed the second great revolution in farming--the arrival of electric lines to rural areas, running water in barns, and new farm machines like tractors, balers, and combines. In Every Farm Tells a Story he traces that revolution by way of costs found in his mother's account books for everything from the family's first milking machine to the used telephone pole that supported their first electric yard light. He recalls his childhood and the traditional family farm values and ethics instilled in him by Ma and Pa. "This book is more than charming nostalgia, for Apps, a former professor of agriculture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is interested in the sociology of farm life as it changed from his childhood to the day he graduated from high school. Milking machines replaced fist power at the milk stool, tractors replaced horses and before anyone knew it the old fashioned farm was a thing of the past. One of the most touching scenes finds Apps describing his Pa's reaction to his earning a scholarship to college and to the sale of his milk cows when he got too old to put on the milkers. It's a fine book for oldtimers like me . . . and also for young farmers who, despite their $100,000 tractors face new and more sophisticated challenges." --Dave Wood, past vice president of the National Book Critics Circle and former book review editor of the Minneapolis Star Tribune"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Farm life $z Wautoma Region $z Wautoma Region $v Anecdotes. 650 0 $a Family Farms $z Wautoma Region $z Wautoma Region $v Anecdotes. 600 10 $a Apps, Jerold W., $d 1934- 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI). $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. $2 bisacsh 776 08 $i Online version: $a Apps, Jerry, 1934- author. $t Every farm tells a story $b Wisconsin Historical Society Press edition. $d Madison, WI : Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2018 $z 9780870208645 $w (DLC) 2017053719 941 $a 2 952 $l TSPC862 $d 20220106010657.0 952 $l TXPC862 $d 20210304010716.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=490F2086FAB711E8B830B36F97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search