Down by the Feed Mill

More than 300 fascinating photos bring to light the importance of feed mills to American townspeople, economies, and heritage. This wealth of contemporary new photos, together with some vintage images from museum collections, give us a visual record of a changing, and passing, American institution. Covering a time frame of more than 150 years, the book's illuminating text explains what feed mills and grain elevators do, how they work, the role they have played in the American agricultural economy, and the relationship of these businesses to their farmer customers. By focusing on three mills in depth we learn the changing technological and economic conditions that shaped, and sometimes destroyed, mills. These evocative photos capture mills in the southern half of Michigan's lower peninsula, chosen to be representative of the US mills as a whole in terms of their variety, historic evolution, and characteristics.

Peste 300 de fotografii fascinante aduc la lumina importanta fabricilor de furaje pentru oamenii din oras, economiile si patrimoniul american. Aceasta bogatie de fotografii contemporane noi, impreuna cu cateva imagini de epoca din colectiile muzeelor, ne ofera o inregistrare vizuala a unei institutii americane in schimbare si trecatoare.