A section devoted to farming activities underscores the nobility in working the land productively.
Claussen's family was devoted to farming and politics, and he was intensely interested in the latter.
While fully one-third of the South East is still devoted to farming or horticulture, the region as a whole also has an extensive range of manufacturing industry.
One of the worst-hit places was here in Macon County, a poor area on the Kentucky border devoted to farming tobacco and soybeans.
By the early 20th century, rail lines and roads had extended throughout much of the country, and the area devoted to farming had grown markedly, notably with the introduction of sheep herds and pastures enclosed with barbed wire.
Much of the land once devoted to farming is taken by new housing, attracting newcomers who are often intolerant of the dust, noises and smells that are part of keeping horses.
Though Idaho's economy has diversified in recent years, more than a fifth of its land is devoted to farming — not only to grow Idaho's world-famous potatoes, but also crops like alfalfa, triticale and oat hay, all of which Mr. Erwin grows.
Utah, devoted to farming and ranching, was generally little known to and little visited by outsiders until the 1940s, when the U.S. military established several bases and other facilities in the state; the most prominent, Tooele Army Depot, remains a centre for the storage of munitions.
