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This article discusses how 1937 set a new record for sales in the Asheville tobacco market.

This document is meant to compliment the Selected Item: Lesson 2: North Carolina Era 9: Depression and War (1929-1945): Postcards from Mars Hill Lesson Plan

This document is meant to compliment the Selected Item: Lesson 2: North Carolina Era 9: Depression and War (1929-1945): Postcards from Mars Hill Lesson Plan

This is a published article discussing the importance of manure for improving farm soil and crop yields.

This is a brief published article about the importance of bees on a farm, specifically the cucumber crops grown on the Arledge Farm by the Lowry Brothers in Henderson County, North Carolina.

This is a published photograph of a farm with beehives. The caption reads, "A Successful Apiary on the Farm of A.K. Queen in the Candler Section of Buncombe County."

This is a published photograph on the April 1943 cover of the Farmers Federation News showing a team of plow horses being driven by a girl in a dress. The caption for the photograph on page 6 reads, "Rose Cook is a Good 'Plowman' (Cover Picture…

This document is meant to compliment the Selected Item: Lesson 2: North Carolina Era 9: Depression and War (1929-1945): Postcards from Mars Hill Lesson Plan

This is an article on the importance of sorting tobacco for the farmer to receive maximum profit from the crop. The article includes an image of a tobacco barn and field.

This article from an unidentified newspaper describes a ceremony at Mars Hill College in which Joe Anderson's ashes, which had been removed from a local cemetery, were reburied on campus with an inscribed granite marker.