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English
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The Transformation of Utah's Agriculture, 1847-1900
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The Twentieth Century American West : Contributions to An Understanding
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Charles Redd Monographs in Western History, No. 12. Provo, Utah
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Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Brigham Young University
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57-83
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Covers early efforts at agriculture, where part of the problem was to find out what would and would not grow. The importation of various kinds of seeds and plants into the Salt Lake valley, and the early establishment of commercial nurseries. Experimentation that developed many new varieties of seeds, plants, and fruit. Activity of the Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing Society in experimenting, procuring seeds, etc, and the annual territorial fair. The impact of new technology, especially after the beginning of the 1860s. The impact of the LDS Church was a positive stimulus to this modernization, both practically and idealogically. It brought people here, provided channels for distribution of information, tended to promote agriculture as a mode of life, and, in the sermons of people such as Orson Pratt, suggested that God was behind new farm techonology, for the purpose of helping to build Zion. By the end of the century Utah's agriculture had exhibited a remarkable transition.