Wheeler McMillen
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
personal data | |
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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 |