farms and farming systems

Content Description 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...

Content Description The Agricultural Artifacts Collection consists of a variety of small to medium-sized artifacts broadly relating to agriculture. There are hand scythes from China, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Thailand, and the United States; a cocoa knife from Jamaica; a long scythe blade; and various small metal implements. Other categories of artifacts include tools, models, and research and laboratory devices. Examples include an animal trap, an insect trap, a telescope, a liquid nitrogen carrier, a...

Content Description The American Agricultural Economics Association Records contain the organization's constitution, bylaws, correspondence, handbooks, directories, ledgers, invoices, newsletters, black and white and color photographs, membership lists, reports, policies, student chapter papers, publications, and papers of various committees. A majority of the records are drafts of articles for the American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Includes files of the Committee on Women in...

Content Description The Brice K. Meeker Papers consist of reports, speeches, diplomas, slides, and photographs from conferences attended by Meeker, as well as areas where he and his family lived while he was an agricultural attaché. There is information on agriculture in the United States and the U.S.S.R. In addition, the following places are represented in photographs or slides: the Aegean Islands, Australia, Austria, Belgium, the Canary Islands, Denmark, England, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Greece,...

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The Calvert County, Maryland, Oral History Transcripts consist of four oral history interviews. Interviewees include Gorman Buckler, Y. D. Hance, Michael Phipps, and J. W. Waters-Ross.

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The Cedar Valley Land Company Records consist of two volumes of the company's contracts and records of land sales.

Content Description The Charles Benjamin Coffman Papers primarily consist of technical data concerned with the herbicidal properties of weed management chemicals. Most of this data is contained in reports from the Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) for the American National Standards Committee on Common Names for Pest Control Chemicals of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). The files are arranged alphabetically by chemical name. The collection also includes correspondence, field notes and...

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The Charles Edwin Kellogg Papers contain scripts of Kellogg's speeches, articles, reviews, reprints, correspondence, field notes, journals, slides, photographs, soil maps, and publications relating to soil science and agriculture. Publications include many of the rare works of soil science pioneers such as Glinka, Ruffin, Evelyn, Young, and Marbut.

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The Charles William Pugsley Manuscript was compiled by Pugsley (circa 1930s) and is titled, "The Land Grant College in South Dakota: Its Field of Work. A Court Record with Supporting Notes." The material concerns a lawsuit brought against the Regents of Education of South Dakota in 1933. Part 1 of the manuscript contains copies of documents that were presented to and considered by the court. Part 2 has materials used by the attorneys for the defense.

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The Daniel Poppleton Account Book (typewritten copy, 1939) is titled "A Pioneer Farmer of Licking County, Ohio...1818-1852." Most of the entries in the account book are debit items. Little money was in circulation at that time, and marketing of farm products was accomplished through barter. There is an introduction to the account book written by W.W. Stockberger, which provides biographical information about Poppleton and an explanation of the account book.