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Knapp, Neal A.

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Making Machines of Animals: The International Livestock Exposition, 1900-1920.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Making Machines of Animals: The International Livestock Exposition, 1900-1920./
Author:	Knapp, Neal A.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	307 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-09, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-09A.
Subject:	American history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13419691
ISBN:	9780438971400

Making Machines of Animals: The International Livestock Exposition, 1900-1920.
Knapp, Neal A.

Making Machines of Animals: The International Livestock Exposition, 1900-1920. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 307 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-09, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University, 2019.

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This dissertation examines the establishment and influence of the International Livestock Exposition, an annual show that began in Chicago in 1900 and that served as the central hub of the national livestock improvement movement. Industrial meatpacking firms and land-grant university professors worked together to transform the genetic composition and physiology of American meat-producing animals. Packers hosted the Exposition at the Union Stockyards to address market irregularities in quality and supply. University researchers intended to solve a larger set of problems that included rural population decline, the need for more food output to feed a growing population, and diminishing soil fertility. These unlikely partners created the International to eliminate inferior, or "scrub," livestock. The International played a pivotal role in remaking livestock genotypes and phenotypes. Its organizers and participants favored "improved" animals descended from purebred, British livestock with recorded ancestries-a preference rooted in the reformers' pseudo-scientific belief in eugenics. Purebred animals had standard bodies with a narrow set of physiological outcomes, which amounted to biotic technology. But genetic homogeneity was only a building block for improvement. The International also employed contests, demonstrations, and advocacy to reconfigure American livestock by making them smaller, more compact, and early-maturing. This study also analyzes the larger shift in American agriculture toward the Corn Belt model of grain feeding. Treating animals as dynamic historical agents, it suggests that machinery, tractors, seeds, and implements did not alone accomplish the industrialization of agriculture. Meat-producing cattle, sheep, and pigs were a requisite component in an emerging industrial sequence. These grain-fed modern livestock and their farmer caretakers fit into a developing web of mutually dependent agricultural specialists. The International united this movement into a singular body at the end of each year in Chicago, and in the process, shaped American agricultural practices and encouraged farm specialization until the show closed in 1975. Sources consulted include land-grant university research and publications, meatpacker records and propaganda, and newspaper and agricultural journal articles.

ISBN: 9780438971400Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122692
American history.

Making Machines of Animals: The International Livestock Exposition, 1900-1920.
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