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Still Image
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Original Format
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Printed engravings
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Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Format
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jpeg, 474 KB
Title
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Wheat Heads and Hessian Fly
Date
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1880
Description
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During the first half of the 1800s, a boom in wheat powered growth in the Genesee Valley--especially after construction of the Erie Canal enabled its shipping as a worldwide commodity. This item combines two engravings to better visualize the rise and fall of "Big Wheat" in the Genesee. The first image shows different types of wheat heads. Among the most commonly grown in the area was Genesee Red Chaff (discontinued due to its susceptibility to rust and fly larvae), White Flint, and Harmon's Improved White Flint. The second image shows what was called the "Hessian fly," due to its supposed importation by way of German mercenary troops during the 1770s. This xenophobic theory has been discredited. The Hessian fly is a midge whose larvae feed on the sap of grains like wheat and barley (which is why it also was called the Barley fly). Its effect on Western New York wheat farmers was disastrous, especially in combination with the competition from new, larger farms in the upper Midwest.
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F.W. O'Neill and H.L. Williams, The American Farmer's Hand-Book (New York: R.Worthington, 1880): 70, 643 <br /><br /><a href="https://archive.org/details/americanfarmersh00onei/page/n5/mode/2up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Courtesy of Internet Archive</a>
Type
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Still image
Publisher
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E. Worthington
Harmon
Hessian fly
midge
Wheat
White Flint
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Still Image
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Newspaper article
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Miss Isabel Fraser Harmon Resign Secretaryship To Conduct Big Wheat Farms; TAKES HER BROTHER'S PLACE; Believes She Can Serve Country Better By Raising Grain- Successor Not Named.
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Isabel Fraser Harmon "Quits 'Y.W.' to Run Farm"
Description
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Caption to photograph summarizes the content of this news clipping: "General secretary of the Young Women's Christian Association, of Baltimore, who has resigned her position to manage a big wheat farm in Western New York. She takes the place of her brother, who has gone to war."
Date
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1918-03-18
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Faubert, Christina
Format
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jpeg, 753 KB
jpeg, 957 KB
jpeg, 306 KB
Type
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Still image
Source
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Harmon Family Papers, Big Springs Museum
Publisher
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<em>Baltimore Evening Sun</em>
Caledonia, NY
Harmon
Isabel Fraser Harmon
Wheatland, NY
Y.W.C.A