New plays from old tales, arranged for boys and girls,

Aucassin and Nicolette.--The birthday of the infants. Wilde.--The princess who hid her shores. Nyblom.--Tamlane. Old ballad.--Pilgrim's progress. Bunyan.--Three Sundays in a week. Poe.--On the old plantation. Prynelle.--Feathertop. Hawthorne.

The Mayflower pilgrims, being a condensation in the original wording and spelling of the story written by Gov. William Bradford of their privations and trials, and the voyage of the Mayflower and settlement at Plymouth in the year 1620.

"This condensation of the first part of Governor William Bradford's History of Plymouth plantation covers the period in the history of the English 'Separatists' sect from 1608-1621."--Pref.

Reminiscences of public men in Alabama : for thirty years, with an appendix /

Includes index.

Eastover Court House : a novel /

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A southern planter.

Published also under title: Memorials of a southern planter.

After the war: a southern tour. May 1, 1865, to May 1, 1866,

Mode of access: Internet.

The story of the Pilgrim fathers, 1606-1623 A. D.;

Introduction.--Dr. Cotton Mather's life of Governor William Bradford.--The Bradford manuscript.--Scrooby.--Amsterdam.--Leyden.--The resolution to migrate to America.--The negotiations of the Pilgrim church.--The voyage to America.--A relation, or journal, of the beginning and proceedings of the English plantation, settled at Plymouth.--The complaint of certain adventurers and inhabitants of the plantation in New England.--E. W. [Edward Winslow] Good news from New England.--A brief relation of a credible intelligence of the present state of Virginia.--A postscript.--Index.

Uncle Isaac; or, Old days in the South. A remembrance of the South.

Mainly in verse.

Front, side, and back views of human effigy-head water bottle

verso: "Shawnee Village, Mat Lock Plantation." Univ. of Arkansas Collection. University of Chicago Arkansas Pictorial Survey Neg.#136,137,138

Confederate greenbacks;

Mode of access: Internet.

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave. /

Compare: Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906, 3234.

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave. /

"Letter from Wendell Phillips, Esq.": pages [xiii]-xvi.

The experience of Thomas H. Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years. /

Consult: Dumond, D.L. Antislavery in America, page 70; Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906, entry 5395.

Development of forest structure on cleared rainforest land in eastern Australia under different styles of reforestation

Rainforests in eastern Australia have been extensively cleared over the past two centuries. In recent decades, there have been increasing efforts to reforest some of these cleared lands, using a variety of methods, to meet a range of economic and environmental objectives. However, the extent to which the various styles of reforestation restore structure, composition and ecological function to cleared land is not presently understood. In this study, we develop and apply a method for quantifying the structural attributes of reforestation sites in tropical and subtropical Australia. The types of reforestation studied were plantation monocultures, mixed-species cabinet timber plots, diverse restoration plantings and unmanaged regrowth. Two age classes of reforestation were examined: 'young' (5-22 years), incorporating sites from all categories, and 'old' (30-70 years), in which only monoculture plantations and regrowth were represented. A total of 104 sites were surveyed including reference sites in intact rainforest and pasture. Intact rainforest was characterised by a suite of complex structural features including abundant special life forms (vines, epiphytes, hemi-epiphytes and strangler figs), a dense stand of trees in a range of size classes, a closed canopy, a shrubby understorey and a well-developed ground layer of leaf litter and woody debris. These features were lost on conversion to pasture. While all types of reforestation returned some elements of structural complexity to cleared land, young plantation monocultures, cabinet timber plots and young regrowth had a relatively simple structure. These sites typically had a low density of woody stems, a relatively open canopy and grassy ground cover, and lacked large trees, coarse woody debris and most special life forms. Restoration plantings and old regrowth were more complex, with a high density of woody stems, a relatively closed canopy and shrubby understorey. Old monoculture plantations in the tropics had acquired many of the structural attributes of intact forest, however this was not the case in the subtropics, where plantations were subject to more intensive management. The marked differences in structural complexity between sites suggest that the different types of reforestation practiced in eastern Australia are likely to vary considerably in their value as habitat for rainforest biota. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Assessing the performance of a nucleus estate and smallholder scheme for oil palm production in West Sumatra: a stochastic frontier analysis

In this paper, we study the performance of smallholders in a nucleus estate and smallholder (NES) scheme in oil palm production schemein West Sumatra by measuring their technical efficiency using a stochastic frontier production function. Our results indicate a mean technical efficiency of 66%, which is below what we would have expected given the uniformity of the climate, soils and plantation construction among the sample farmers. The use of progressive farmers as a means of disseminating extension advice does not appear to have been successful, and more rigorous farmer selection procedures need to be put in place for similar schemes and for general agricultural extension in future. No clear relationship was established between technical efficiency and the use of female labour, suggesting there is no need to target extension services specifically at female labourers in the household. Finally, education was found to have an unexpectedly negative impact on technical efficiency, indicating that farmers with primary education may be more important than those with secondary and tertiary education as targets of development schemes and extension programs entailing non-formal education. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.