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Logansport

(Encyclopedia) Logansport, city (1990 pop. 16,812), seat of Cass co., N central Ind., at the confluence of the Wabash and the Eel rivers; inc. 1838. In a fertile farm area, it has diversified…

animal

(Encyclopedia) animal, any member of the animal kingdom (kingdom Animalia), as distinguished from organisms of the plant kingdom (kingdom Plantae) and the kingdoms Fungi, Protista, and Monera in the…

Farm Income

(in millions of dollars) This table features the U.S. farm income from 1930 to 2007, including the major categories of crops, livestock, government payments, and the…

Brewer's: Farm

means food; so called because anciently the tenant was required to provide the landlord with food by way of rent. (Anglo-Saxon, fearme, food.) To farm taxes is the French affermer (to let…

The Farming of the Bones

Author:Edwidge DanticatPublisher:Soho Press Edwidge Danticat possesses a gift for narrating excruciating scenes with a poetic economy. This talent makes the 1937 Haitian massacre a perfect…

Agriculture, United States Department of

(Encyclopedia) Agriculture, United States Department of, federal executive department established in 1862, whose head was made a cabinet member in 1889. The department administers federal programs…

castration

(Encyclopedia) castration, removal of the sex glands of an animal, i.e., testes in the male, or ovaries and often the uterus in the female. Castration of the female animal is commonly referred to as…

fable

(Encyclopedia) fable, brief allegorical narrative, in verse or prose, illustrating a moral thesis or satirizing human beings. The characters of a fable are usually animals who talk and act like…

Hicks, Edward

(Encyclopedia) Hicks, Edward, 1780–1849, American painter and preacher, b. Bucks co., Pa. A member of the Society of Friends, he became a noted back-country preacher in the conservative group of…