Abstract
For over three hundred years the farm was one of the most signifi cant elements in American history (1). Americans have been a privileged people with an abundance of farm-produced food and raw materials, abounty beyond Ameri can requirements allowing export of sur pluses to other countries. Farming history is essential for an understanding of Amer ica's development. During the last thirty to fifty years dramatic changes came to agriculture amounting to a great transformation and the end of an epoch. We are : seeing the passing away of the farm as we have hitherto known it. The 1990 U.S. Census shows scarcely 2 percent of the 4.9 million of the population to be farm people and 2.1 million farms. That represents a monumental shift from the first census
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