Archive for the 'Agriculture' Category

Ethnographic Map of Michigan

October 24, 2007

Title, “The Farm People of Michigan”Locaton: MC358.D10.F1Date, 1945Argus Number 10214

Michigan Farm Credit Relief Commission

July 6, 2007

MICHIGAN FARM CREDIT RELIEF COMMISSION, 1934-1935
See:  RG 68-35, RECORDS OF DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY, entry 59.

Indian Garden Beds

May 15, 2007

Source:
1.  Totem Pole Vol. 39 No. 4, January 7, 1957.  Whole issue.
Keywords: Indian, American Indian, Native American

Hog Law

May 15, 2007

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT HOGS FROM RUNNING AT LARGE, WITHIN THE CITY OF DETROIT.
Detroit Gazzette
March 24, 1820.
Be it enacted, and it is herby enacted, by the Board of Trustees of the City of Detroit, that if any owner of a hog, shall suffer the same to go at large, or be out of his or [...]

Grindstones

May 15, 2007

Source:  Schedule 4, Products of Industry, for Port Austin Township, Huron County.
1870 schedule lists W. H. Cooper and Company as manufacturers of grindstones and whet stones, with a capital stock of $14,000.  Power was 30 h.p. steam operation.  Usual machines were lathes, gang of saws and grinder.  Cooper and Co. used 3 lathes, 20 saws, [...]

Dairy

May 8, 2007

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B40
F7
State Officers, Boards, etc. 1910-1912.
Dairy and Food Department.
re:  Fees rec’d and accounted for since provisions of Act 129
Public Act, 1905 and Act 70 of Public Act, 1905 became operative.
Summary of work done for month of November, 1911, does not include anything relative to dairying.
T.     K. Ditwiler, Librarian, Dairy Industries Supply Assoc. Inc. 1145 – [...]

World’s Fair

May 3, 2007

CHICAGO WORLD’S FAIR, 1893
Executive Office, boxes 15, 35, 37, 68, 138, 246, 150
RG 75-87 Board of World Fair Managers of Michigan
Streeter 3233, 3234, 3235, 3236

Cheese Factories

May 3, 2007

Cheese Factories
Inspection of Cheese Factories
RG 2002-81 Box 2

Centennial Farms

May 3, 2007

CENTENNIAL FARM RECORDS
MS 64-55, Lot 1, 1955-1963, 1 box 4/19/4
RG 68-3 State, Lot 20, 1963-1965, Cum. B-2, 5/12/4
RG 68-99, State, Lot 28, 1948-1967, 3 boxes, 10/20/3
RG 73-27, State, Lot 81, 1900-1973, 1 box photos 3/19/5