﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!--RSS Genrated: Sun, 26 Apr 2026 12:58:50 GMT--><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Farms and Food History</title><link>http://www.farms.com%2freflections-on-farm-and-food-history%2fhistorical-articles-archive%2frss%2f386</link><atom:link href="http://www.farms.com%2freflections-on-farm-and-food-history%2fhistorical-articles-archive%2frss%2f386" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><description>RSS document</description><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[SuperUser Account]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[The Application of Computers to Agriculture]]></title><link>http://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/historical-articles-archive/the-application-of-computers-to-agriculture</link><description><![CDATA[ The “electronic computer” has been hailed as having possibly more beneficial potential for the human race than any other invention in history. It has already changed or affected whole areas of ...]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2017 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/historical-articles-archive/the-application-of-computers-to-agriculture</guid></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[SuperUser Account]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[Agriculture as a Profession]]></title><link>http://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/historical-articles-archive/agriculture-as-a-profession</link><description><![CDATA[ The word agriculture, derived from the Latin ager - a field plus culture, cultivation, meaning literally the cultivation of a field, the art or science of cultivating the ground, has gradually come ...]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2017 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/historical-articles-archive/agriculture-as-a-profession</guid></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[SuperUser Account]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[Henry Ford’s Views on Farming]]></title><link>http://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/historical-articles-archive/henry-fords-views-on-farming</link><description><![CDATA[ Is farming the industry of food production, or is it a way of living- or is it just something we talk about? And what is a farmer? We speak of farmers as though they were all alike. That we know is ...]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2017 14:14:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/historical-articles-archive/henry-fords-views-on-farming</guid></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[SuperUser Account]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[Canadian Citizenship: True and False Democracy]]></title><link>http://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/historical-articles-archive/canadian-citizenship-true-and-false-democracy</link><description><![CDATA[ The following article is focused on the concept of Canadian citizenship and whether our current system of democracy serves the needs of the public. This author reminds all Canadian citizens that it ...]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2017 14:30:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/historical-articles-archive/canadian-citizenship-true-and-false-democracy</guid></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[SuperUser Account]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[THE EFFECTS OF URBANIZATION ON OUR RURAL COMMUNITIES]]></title><link>http://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/historical-articles-archive/the-effects-of-urbanization-on-our-rural-communities</link><description><![CDATA[ I believe the rural community is becoming extinct. Ontario is becoming a province of urbanites and semi-urbanites who are destroying the rural community. The urbanites are becoming more rural and ...]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:30:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/historical-articles-archive/the-effects-of-urbanization-on-our-rural-communities</guid></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[SuperUser Account]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[Price Control in Agriculture]]></title><link>http://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/historical-articles-archive/price-control-in-agriculture</link><description><![CDATA[ Not long ago I saw in one of our dailies a very good cartoon in which “Food” and “Wages” were standing on a high scaffold with a ladder leading therefrom, Each of these worthies was pointing to the ...]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2018 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/historical-articles-archive/price-control-in-agriculture</guid></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[SuperUser Account]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[Deepening Farms with Dynamite]]></title><link>http://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/historical-articles-archive/deepening-farms-with-dynamite</link><description><![CDATA[ The use of low-grade dynamite containing about twenty percent of nitroglycerine for removing stumps and boulders impeding cultivation on the farm has been proven an unqualified success at many local ...]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2017 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/historical-articles-archive/deepening-farms-with-dynamite</guid></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[SuperUser Account]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[THE EIGHT-HOUR DAY]]></title><link>http://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/historical-articles-archive/the-eight-hour-day</link><description><![CDATA[ The fact that the eight-hour day was dragged into the Peace Conference does not dress it up in any more attractive form to present to the Canadian electorate, and it is evident that our ...]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2017 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/historical-articles-archive/the-eight-hour-day</guid></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[SuperUser Account]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[Is She Worth Her Keep?]]></title><link>http://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/historical-articles-archive/is-she-worth-her-keep</link><description><![CDATA[ NO; the school-teacher has not been of much account. In the rural districts she has, perhaps, been a leader, socially, but she has not been of very much account. If she had been, or, rather, if her ...]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2018 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/historical-articles-archive/is-she-worth-her-keep</guid></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[SuperUser Account]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[Practical Methods of Cooling Milk on the Farm]]></title><link>http://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/historical-articles-archive/practical-methods-of-cooling-milk-on-the-farm</link><description><![CDATA[ Farmers are often accused of showing a lack of business instinct. It is certain that no successful business man would handle his products in the way some farmers handle theirs. This is particularly ...]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2018 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/historical-articles-archive/practical-methods-of-cooling-milk-on-the-farm</guid></item></channel></rss>