Agriculture

<p><span class="deck"> What started as fun and games at spring roundups is now a multi-million-dollar sport called rodeo</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The black laborers on John Williams’ plantation never seemed to leave or complain. It took some digging to find out why</span> </span></p>

<p>These hardy Texas beasts with “too much legs, horns, and speed” had long since been replaced by stodgier breeds. Now they were facing extinction… </p>

<p><span class="deck"> IN THE DELTA</span> </p>

<p>In southern California the orange found a home. </p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">New Light on a Much-Loved Myth</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">It’s our most important, profitable, and adaptable crop—the true American staple. But where did it come from?</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">Cyrus McCormick takes on a major problem with agriculture.</span></p>

<p>Many historians and the author of a recent book have seriously misjudged the influential former vice president and cabinet secretary.</p>

<p>Two gifted sisters in Philadelphia helped to transform early American science.</p>