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Moving - Beale, Pennsylvania

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While you are answering those questions in your mind, please enjoy a brief history of the community you are considering as your next home, Beale, PA.

A Brief History of Beale, PA

Farming in Beale, PA

Farm families and neighbors depended on one another to get things done. They “changed works,” routinely exchanged services, labor, and goods, employed hired hands who lived with the family, and sometimes loaned a child to work for a neighbor or relative.

In the 1800s, Heebner and Sons was one of hundreds of small farm equipment manufacturers...
Credit: The Library Company of Philadelphia

Farm men and women kept scrupulous records of what they owed each other and every so often they would “settle up” and begin again. But as a rule little cash changed hands, even though work and goods were reckoned in cash value equivalents.

The 1800s also witnessed the shaky beginnings of scientific agriculture. Concerned about soil depletion and the general backwardness of farming in America, gentlemen farmers like John Beale Bordley and Frederick Watts formed organizations for the scientific study of agriculture, built experimental farms upon which they tested the latest theories, and lobbied for state-funded agricultural schools and agencies. “Scientific” agriculture, however, struggled in its infant years. Even the greatest European researchers could not figure out the complex processes of plant physiology, nutrition, soils, and genetics. Gentleman farmers sometimes made valuable contributions, but their expensive experiments were far beyond the reach of ordinary farmers. For quite a long time, most farmers regarded “book farming” with suspicion, if not contempt.