Agriculture
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:
2 Common-place books with medical receipts and prescriptions, and with gardening hints
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1555
Scope and Contents
The common-place books are written in the same hand, largely, and are described as:
1 x common-place book, small 4to, with 174pp numbered, dating from 1817-1837, though a later style of handwriting on last unnumbered 4 pp feature the date 1849. Original lightly diced Russia, lacking spine. Manuscript medical receipts, prescriptions. Entries feature named Scottish doctors or Scottish periodicals. An extensive...
Dates:
1810-1860
A list of books of agriculture given me ..., c1698
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio B [33]
Scope and Contents
A book list, perhaps in the hand of the man who gave it to Gregory, whose name appears to read 'Jacob Bobart'. The latest imprint on the list is 1693.
Dates:
c1698
Agriculture note, 1698
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio E [063]
Scope and Contents
A short note on rye grass, food prices, and pigeon coops, followed by a shorter remark on the most comfortable dimensions of the steps in a staircase.
Dates:
1698
Board of Agriculture from January 1906, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/176
Scope and Contents
Photograph of a group of men that comprised the Board of Agriculture in January 1906 sitting and standing on a platform in front of a forest.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Bound manuscript entitled 'Sect. 7. Cattle, Green Crops' , c 1790
Item — Box CLX-A-1141
Identifier: Coll-205/7
Scope and Contents
A large bound manuscript volume entitled 'Sect. 7. Cattle, Green Crops'. Given the title, this text, whilst complete in itself, must be part of a multivolume set.
'The Soil & Climate of the Highlands'
'The State of the Highland Cattle during Winter'
'The grasses and green Crops proper to be cultivated in the Highlands'
'Crops for dry Provender: 1. Clover...
Dates:
c 1790
Class notes - Lectures on Agriculture and Entemology, given by Professor Wallace and Dr. Fream
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1283
Scope and Contents
This volume in typescript contains careful notes on these two series of lectures at the University of Edinburgh. The first series, by Professor Robert Wallace (1853-1939), Chair of Agriculture, covers dairying, with extensive coverage of the different types of cheese and their production. The second, by Dr. William Fream, covers agricultural entomology, essentially the varieties of pests that attack crops. There are ink drawings throughout. Spine-title and title-page both indicate...
Dates:
1905-1906
Diaries of the Reids of Peasehill, Fife
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-468
Scope and Contents
The diaries contain notes by David Reid senior, of weather and farming neighbours, 1855 to 1856, and notes by David Reid junior, of school, farm and St. Andrews University, 1873 to 1883.
Dates:
1855-1883
Diary of Charles Ross of Greenlaw, 1 January 1795-27 June 1805
Item — Box CLX-A-353
Identifier: Coll-1848/17-0192
Scope and Contents
Manuscript pocket-diary of Charles Ross of Greenlaw, a Scottish surveyor, architect, farmer, nurseryman and gardener near Paisley, with daily weather readings and notes of his activities and health from 1 January 1795 to 27 June 1805. The diary contains some illustrations. Charles Ross was at the forefront of the Agricultural Revolution in South-West Scotland in the second half of the 18th century. His journal reveals that in his late 70s and early 80s he remained physically and socially active...
Dates:
1 January 1795-27 June 1805
Engaged in Agriculture, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2079
Scope and Contents
Table showing the number of people (male and female) engaged in the agricultural industry in England, Wales and Scotland between 1871 and 1901.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Etymological and geographical note for Creaga Loisgte, 20 January 1871
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/146
Scope and Contents
Etymological and geographical note collected from Hector MacLeod, aged 85, at Caisteal Bhuirgh/Borve Castle, Lionacleit/Linaclate, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula stating that Creaga Loisgte got its name from being the place where kelp was first burnt, by an Irishman called Ruari na Luath. He had come to the islands to teach kelp-making. Hector says that this was the best place for giomaich and crubagan [lobster and crab] and that potatos and bere [barley] are now grown there. His wife's great...
Dates:
20 January 1871