Beschreibung
Lamb, Robert Byron (1963). The Mule in Southern Agriculture. University of California Press. 99 Seiten.
The agricultural history of the South has been characterized as a combination of cotton, plantations, and Negroes, with the inclusion of additional factors, when necessary, to explain specific events or particular trends. An element in this history which has been largely ignored or at best only casually acknowledged is the mule.‘ This is difficult to understand, for by 1900 mules outnumbered all other draft animals in the South, and at all times in the past 150 years the vast majority of the mules in the United States have been in the Southern states.
The mule population in the South has shown substantial variation since the beginning of the nineteenth century. The changes, however, have not been evenly distributed; the number of mules has increased in some areas and decreased in others. It is my purpose to investigate where within the South changes in the number of mules occurred, and to discover how these changes related to agricultural practices and to alterations in the over-all crop patterns. Regional differences in the changing agricultural patterns, in the forces behind such developments, and in the process of change itself are of geographic significance.
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