Wheeler McMillen

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Wheeler McMillen (born January 27, 1893 near Ada , † March 4, 1992 in Leesburg ) was an American agricultural journalist.

Life

Wheeler McMillen grew up on the family farm south of Ada and attended Ohio Northern University .

After several years as a newspaper reporter and editor, he went to New York in 1922 , where he became co-editor of Country Home Magazine . He came to believe that the farmers' biggest problem was the low price of crops as a result of overproduction, which in turn resulted from mechanization , chemical fertilizers and insecticides . In 1929, just before the Great Depression , he published Too Many Farmers . (In 1890 42.3% of Americans were still working as farmers, in 1970 4.8%)

In 1935 he teamed up with Henry Ford . Together they founded the National Farm Chemurgic Council in 1936 .

In 1939 he became editor-in-chief of the Farm Journal . After resigning in 1955, he served as Vice President for another eight years. In addition to his work as a journalist, he had a farm in Hopewell and was also active in advisory form for the government. He was also the vice president of the Boy Scouts of America National Board .

He left a son.

Works

  • Too Many Farmers . William Morrow & Company, 1929
  • Essay The face of the earth . In Environment, the university, (and) the welfare of man . Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1969, pp. 17-33
  • The Farmer . Washington: Potomac Books, 1966
  • Feeding Multitudes: A History of What Made America Rich . Interstate Printers and Publishers Inc, 1981
  • Ohio Farm . Ohio St Univ Press, 1997
  • Weekly on the Wabash . Southern Illinois Univ Pr (Tx), 1969
  • New riches from the soil . D. Van Nostrand Co., inc., 1946
  • The green frontier . Putnam, 1969
  • Land of plenty by Wheeler McMillen . Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961
  • Why the United States is rich . Caxton Printers, 1963
  • Possums, politicians and people . Countryside Press, 1964
  • Harvest by Wheeler McMillen . Appleton-Century, 1964
  • Bugs or people? . Appleton-Century, 1965
  • Fifty useful Americans . Putnam, 1966
  • The power of agriculture . The American tariff league, 1944
  • The farming fever . D. Appleton and company, 1924
  • The young collector . D. Appleton, 1928

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e Announcement on the occasion of his death , New York Times
personal data
SURNAME McMillen, Wheeler
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American agricultural journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Ada (Ohio)
DATE OF DEATH March 4th 1992
Place of death Leesburg