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Farms

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 90 Collections and/or Records:

Notes of lectures on Agriculture taken down by Charles Lyall, 1833-1834

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Identifier: Coll-1848/23-0181
Scope and Contents This is a volume of manuscript notes of lectures on agriculture, taken down by Charles Lyall, a student of the University of Edinburgh, during the academic session 1833-1834. The lecturer was probably David Low, who held the Chair of Agriculture from 1831 to 1854.The book covers all aspects of general farming and land management, with sections on crops, cultivation, soil science, livestock, economy and tenant law, and appears to represent a complete course of study, signed off as...
Dates: 1833-1834

Notes (undated) made by James Cossar Ewart concerning the proposed valuation of sheep sent to Fairslacks, [c.1912]

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/18/82
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Correspondence chiefly concerns research and breeding experiments on sheep, including the work of Henry John Elwes and their joint preparation for the exhibition at the Royal Agricultural Show, Bristol, July 1913, as well as the work on the Devon pack horse by Charles R. Haveley. The series also contains copies of letters to Elwes from James Cossar Ewart.

Dates: [c.1912]

Portrait of an unknown man standing by a lake in front of a mountain and a barbed-wire fence, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/28
Scope and Contents

Portrait of an unknown man standing by a lake in front of a mountain and a barbed-wire fence in an unidentified location in the early 20th century

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Potatoes Growing, R H Ross's Farm, Collie, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1434
Scope and Contents

Photograph of men in a field farming potatoes on R H Ross's Farm in Collie in the early/mid 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Richardson's Farm - Near Barcaldine, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/646
Scope and Contents

Image of a painting of a man standing next to an irrigation pump spouting water on Richardson's Farm near Barcaldine, [Queensland, Australia] in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Schoolboys Who Run a 200-Acre Farm Near London, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1543
Scope and Contents

Photograph from the Daily Mirror newspaper from the article, 'Schoolboys Who Run a 200-Acre Farm Near London' showing a boy hand-feeding a pig and a group of boys helping with the harvest in the early 20th century [some time during World War I].

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Sind Bull, Kirkee Farm Herd, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/442
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Sind bull from the Kirkee Farm herd standing in front of a barn with a man at it head. The bull's measurements are printed beneath the image.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Some Eastern Township Scenes [Canada], 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/250
Scope and Contents

Photographs of three Eastern Township scenes: 1. Knowlton, Brome County an Important Dairying Centre; 2. A Dairy Farm in Brome; 3. A Farm Home in the St. Francis Valley [Canada] in the early 20th century. Slide developed by Flatters, Milborne and McKechnie Ltd, Manchester.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Springvale Stock Farm, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/850
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a brochure advertising the Springvale Stock Farm owned by W J Gillett in Rosendale, Wisconsin, USA that breeds Holstein-Friesian cattle, known as 'The Johannas' in the early/mid 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Station Scenes in Western New South Wales, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/649
Scope and Contents

Photographs of Station scenes in Western New South Wales, Australia in the late 19th or early 20th century. 1. Across the Murrumbridge at Canally; 2. 100 tons wheaten hay, grown in irrigation area at Tarcoola; 3. Tapro - old head station; 4. Mr. James Granter, inspector and surveyor for the Western Land Board; 5. Lucerne growing in paddock at Tarcoola Station, Went[?].

Dates: 1870s-1930s