Readers' Retreat
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Reader's Retreat: Author uncovers Prohibition tales 'still' to be told
Minnesota 13 is an open pollinated corn variety developed many years ago by the University of Minnesota. Minnesota 13 was also an internationally known bootleg liquor developed largely by the innovative farmers of Stearns County. Finally, "Minnesota 13" is a well-researched and interesting book, by Elaine Davis, that tells the story of the liquid version of Minnesota 13.
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Readers' Retreat: ‘Land of Amber Waters’ brews up Minnesota history
“Land of Amber Waters” takes the reader through home brewing by the early settlers, the heyday of small breweries, the early industrialization of brewing and up to Prohibition.
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Know a know-it-all? ‘Fences & Gates’ may educate
Country people think that since they know pretty much everything they need to know about fences they can just skip paragraphs, or entire sections, of “How to Build & Repair Fences & Gates." Think again.
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Readers' Retreat: ‘Bobcat: Fifty years’ loads up on ingenuity, history
What machine is tough, quick and agile, and can turn 360 degrees without moving forward or backward? If you answered, “It’s a Bobcat,” you’re right. Being the sort of person who knew the right answer you probably will enjoy reading Marty Padgett’s “Bobcat: Fifty Years.”
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Readers' Retreat: 'Eggs in Coffee' a life story we have all lived
I thought that a city girl who married a farm boy and went to spend a few years on the farm had nothing to say to me. I should have realized that the Minnesota Historical Society Press does not print cute or sugar-coated books. As is so often the case, the MHS Press has joined with a capable author to tell a story that is both historically significant and a pleasure to read.
- Readers' Retreat: Cochrane still speaks on agriculture economics "Why, in the face of falling farm prices and declining gross incomes, do farmers persist in adopting new technologies and thus expanding output? Why, in the 1950s, have farmers pushed aggregate output ahead of demand through widespread technological advance and thus driven down the prices of their own products? And why are they likely to keep right on behaving in this seemingly irrational manner?"
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