Agricultural and Pomological Club of King George County Record Book

The Agricultural and Pomological Club of King George County Record Book consists of the handwritten record book of meetings of the Agricultural and Pomological Club of King George County, Virginia, 1871-1876. The book contains entries on the establishment of the club, including its constitution, by-laws, officers, and membership. There is a handwritten index of names and subjects listed in the book. Some of the subjects of meetings include seeds received from the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture for distribution among club members, canning, commercial fertilizer, implements, plowing, crops, grapes, hay, farm improvement, fences and fence laws, immigration, labor, land, manures, potatoes, and sheep husbandry.

Members present at the first meeting included Col. Edward T. Tayloe, Maj. John D. Rogers, John F. Dickerson, John P. Robb, Fielding Lewis, Horace d. Ashton, Michael Wallace, Thomas T. Arnold, Julien J. Hason, and William I. Brown [sic].

The Virginia Historical Society Library owns the related document, "Proceedings at a meeting…held at the court house, on Saturday the 11th of November, 1871", eight pages.